Indie game developers allowed to use Kinect

Microsoft Game Studios' General Manager Kudo Tsunoda has confirmed that we will be seeing Kinect games on the Xbox Indie Games channel.

"Sure. Of course," said Kudo while talking to EDGE about the possibility of Indie Games being released with Kinect functionality.

"Obviously we're just focusing on the launch games at the moment. But you're going to hear more - it's a big part of Xbox.

The Indie Games channel allows independent developers to develop their own games for release on Xbox Live. So far the channel has hosted numerous great games, including Binary Tweed's Clover and twin-stick shooter I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1, each available to buy for a pocket money price.

At first this might not seem like a huge announcement but this could be a great use of Kinect, Indie devs are free from the shackles of publisher rules and they will find some incredibly original and more core focused uses for the add-on.