latest and greatest and best and brightest and cheeries in the world of gaming. I am

your host, Nicole, and you may remember me from such videos as "the McDonald triplets

play SpaceTeam and Nicole does GDC. On today's episode we have Shards Online, Xbox One and

Sony's paycuts. Your daily XP starts now!

Shards Online, the Indie Sandbox RPG, blasted all of its social media outlets with a countdown

last night, saying something big was happening. When the clock struck 0 we found out that

today was the day they are launching their Kickstarter campaign, along with the first

screenshots and gameplay video. Citadel Studios main goal with the game is to become the first-ever

player-run MMO. The Kickstarter campaign us up now, they are asking for $320,000 to complete

the project, which will hopefully begin its alpha test by the end of 2014. Check it out

more about the game and their campaign at shardsonline.com.

Microsoft has revealed the Xbox one .. .. .. without Kinect. Yes, big news today as the gaming

mega-giant announces that less is more, or something like that. Later this year, Xbox

One will be available without a Kinect and will cost $399, which is $100 off, and puts

it in line with the PS4 price. Why is this news? Well, for one, Microsoft was very adamant

that it had no intention of removing the device from its new console just this past February,

and there's probably thousands of us, or millions of us, who don't use the Kinect at all. Phil

Spencer, head of Xbox re-iterated that "Kinect remains an important part of our vision",

but this flip-flopping from the first Xbox announcement when the console would not function

without Kinect, to now not even coming with the console, says something different to me.

I hope you like numbers, because I'm gonna be spitting them at you quite a bit in this

next piece. Some Sony executives are taking a pay-cut as a sign of solidarity with their

struggling company, as current CEO and President of Sony, Kaz Hirai, prepares a 50% decrease

in pay, as well as declining his annual bonus. The news comes on the heels of bad financial

news as Sony expects to post a $1.27 billion dollar loss for 2013. But wait, I thought

the PS4 was the best-selling next gen console? Yes, it is, but the struggling PC business,

the niche 4K tv's and a strange revival of the Walkman brand have cost them severely.

Has Sony lost its luster in the electronics business? Let us know your thoughts below.

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