Kinect is official name of NATAL. First games revealed

Kinect is Natal official name Microsoft announces ahead of E3 2010 Pre Show
Kinect is the name of NATAL, Microsoft has officially confirmed at the official “Experience NATAL” event in Los Angeles ahead of their Pre-E3 2010 press conference tomorrow. It will be coming to stores in November 2010.

New games were also revealed for the upcoming motion-sensing camera device, and most of them lamely have the name “Kinect” as a prefix to the game’s title.

The new Kinect games include:

1. Kinectimals (an animal collecting game, what else?),
2. Kinect Sports (Microsoft’s obvious answer to Wii Sports as developed by Rare),
3. Kinect Adventures (a river-rafting game) and several others including a Joyride racing game,
4. A Star Wars game,
5. A Disney game starring Tinkerbell,
6. A music rhythm game called Dance Central (created in collaboration with MTV Games).

Here’s the first “lifestyle” trailer showing Kinect in action:

So how do you like the new name? I was kind of hoping they’d keep the “Natal” code-name, but Kinect actually isn’t bad in my humble opinion.

Via 1UP