By Paul McDougallInformationWeek
Pictures in Xbox 360 World magazine, as shown on the Ultimate Gamers Podcast blog, reveal a hand-held, cylindrical device with Xbox-style buttons and color scheme. The device also appears to have a pistol-style hand grip.
In an update, the bloggers said the device is manufactured by Cambridge, MA-based Motus Corporation. Motus makes a motion sensitive controller called Darwin. The company has, to date, been mum on its game industry partnerships.
Previous Internet reports have suggested Microsoft is working on a Nintendo Wii-style controller for the Xbox 360 under a project code-named Newton. Microsoft has declined to comment on the speculation.
According to the reports, users would be able to control on-screen actions in Xbox 360 games by physically moving the remote through a three-dimensional plane. That would create the possibility for, say, a tennis game that players could control by swinging their arms as though holding a racket.
MTV's Web site first reported Microsoft's supposed plans to develop a Wii-style controller. MTV posted a picture of what it said was a rough mock up of the device. The music station cited as its source an anonymous individual who has "business relationships" with Microsoft.
If Microsoft does have such a plan in the works, it's remarkably similar to an April Fool's joke posted last month on a Web site maintained by the company's Macintosh business unit.
Microsoft Mac BU bloggers said on April 1 that the company was developing software that would turn the Apple Remote into a Wii-style controller that would allow users to play interactive games on the Mac.
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