Been on the lookout for a pretty good deal for your Xbox 360 accessories, eh? Then you might as well head out to Circuit City 'cause they've got a couple, actually.

Starting this week, you can get your Xbox Live Vision camera for only US$ 29.99, as well as the wireless controller for US$ 39.99. Now, if you don't know your math, that's US$ 10 slashed off for each item. Oh, and not only that, it also comes with UNO, and a downloadable TotemBall to boot.

So, if you're interested, go on, check them out while they're there. We're not exactly sure how long the deal's gonna be up, after all.

Pterry the Pturtle OWNS you! Just kidding. He's just going to roll you over with his charm.

Pterry is the star of Freeverse Software's upcoming game TotemBall, one-quarter music game, and three-quarters opportunity to do crazy gestures on the the Xbox Live Vision Camera. How come? Well, it's because you control Pterry with your movements on the camera. It also has a bunch of game modes, as the Gamerscore Blog happens to mention:

• TotemBall – Camera-controlled platforming gameplay – gamers control the characters in the game by moving their hands in the air and gesturing in front of the camera
• Juggling - Co-op juggling game with one player using Xbox Live Vision and the other player “juggling” totems with the controller
• Pinball - Play any of the bonus pinball tables that have been unlocked through regular TotemBall play
• Freeplay – Explore the game with no time pressure and infinite lives – great mode for kids
• Super Challenge – Play the entire game with one life and a time limit in each level
• TotemJam – Freely mix and match the game’s musical totems – another fun exploration game for kids
  

If you're patient, and you watch the clock, you can start downloading the game as part of Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays, starting at 1 am PST. Good luck, gamers, and enjoy!

Although there has not been much news about what's happening with TotemBall lately it might be coming shortly as the team over at Achieve360Points has posted up the achievement list for the game. The game has 12 achievements that add up to the usual arcade amount of 200 gamer points. The achievements range from playing for 20 minutes without resting (come on you need the exercise!) to beating the single player game. Hopefully we'll get news about when the game will become available, but until then go ahead and check out the full achievement list below.

• (20) Fit Player - Play a level for 20 minutes without resting (or your arms falling off).
• (10) Totem Trainer - Complete the training level.
• (15) Treasure Fiend - Collect enough treasure chests to get a 16x multiplier.
• (10) TotemBall Wizard - Score 1,000,000 points in a pinball bonus round.
• (20) Walks on Water - Bounce on water 100 times.
• (10) Shiny! - Collect 100 shiny things in a single game.
• (15) Totem Hero - Complete the single player game.
• (15) Totem Team - Complete the Juggling game with a friend.
• (35) Top Totem - Complete the single player game without losing a life.
• (20) Score! - Score 100,000,000 points in a single game.
• (10) Totem Juggler - Get a best juggle score of 1000.
• (20) Perfect! - Find every pickup in the single player game.

You may be wondering what the Xbox Live Vision Camera's features are, so we're going to give you a sneak peek at its capabilities.

One, it enables video chatting for Xbox Live users. Filters can be added for protection or creative purposes, and interestingly, any kind of lag wasn't reported even if filters were applied. Users can also email photos and add various filter effects such as "night vision," contrast manipulation, stretch and distortion effects. Moreover, users could create a thumbnail picture for their profiles which could be tweaked according to various filter effects.

We recently featured TotemBall, a game specifically designed to be used with the Live Vision, so we're gonna skip that. Other game that will make use of the Live Vision is Uno, while World Series of Poker from Activision, and Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Vegas will make use of the facemapping technology.

Another feature that users would find interesting is GestureTek, which is based in Sunnyvale, California. GestureTek allows user interaction by detecting motion. It also promotes the face-tracking technology, a program which "quickly recognizes a user's face, detecting facial structure and features, and is able to track it."

The said program is reported to recognize the user's face even if another person steps on the screen. If the user leaves, the program tracks the closest match to the said user's face, and if the original user returns, the said program will be able to recognise its face again. GestureTek can also track non-facial objects. In a Wizard's Cavern demo (a game developed by GestureTek as well), it was shown how GestureTek tracks a certain peripheral, which in this case, is a foam "magic wand."

However, the said program "is not included in the Live Vision development kit, and must be licensed directly from GestureTek." The Xbox Live Camera is expected to be available on September 19 in the US, together with the game, TotemBall. The development kits have been made available by Microsoft since July.

Well, Xbox 360 fans, we have another video for you today: a gameplay demo of TotemBall, the pack-in game that will ship along with Microsoft's Xbox 360 Live Vision camera accessory. For more pictures of the camera, check out our previous articles.

Anyway. TotemBall. It's a musical platform game for Xbox Live. It's designed for use with the Xbox camera, which means that you point the camera towards you and control the game using your own body. For a better idea, watch the vid.

We also have a little peek at how Microsoft's image mapping interface works. The whole thing is built around DigiMask's face rendering technology, which has been used before in a number of PS2 titles using Sony's EyeToy accessory. For the Xbox 360, the face rendering technology will be utilized in at least two upcoming titles.

The following pics are of the internal demonstration software, so the final version for the Xbox 360 may turn out to be drastically different.

So, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, two more weapons added to Microsoft's arsenal. There have been rumors that the Nintendo Wii will have image-mapping capabilities, so the day when all three consoles meet head to head (or HD to HD, in this case) is looking to be quite exciting indeed.

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Microsoft's Gamefest, being held this week in Seattle, has released new details on the launch of the Xbox Live Vision video camera for the Xbox 360 including the fact that it will be bundled with a free gesture-based game - TotemBall. The game was initially announced back in May this year, and is being developed by mainly Mac title publishers, Strange Flavour and Freeverse (who developed ToySight for the Apple iSight Camera).

TotemBall is controlled through gestures - that is, through the player's arm movements. In the game you attempt to control a wheeled totem pole around each level, collecting items as you go and trying to reach the exit with the set time limit. According to Microsoft's Jeff Stone, there has been no other officially announced products, but more are in the early stages of development.

TotemBall and the Xbox Live Vision Camera is set to ship this September, and according to GameStop the RRP will be US$39.99, even though no official price has yet been announced.