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Although we've come accustomed to the name Project Natal for Microsoft's upcoming motion controller, it was always meant as a place holder only, with the full retail name to be announced at a later stage. Well, that stage is E3 2010, with USA Today revealing Microsoft's motion controller retail name as Kinect.

The article goes on to confirm Joyride is now a Kinect title, along with a few more titles:

• Kinectimals - Lets you train and play with 20 different virtual cats, including a lion, cheetah and tiger.
• Joyride - A racing game, lets players use their hands to hold an imaginary steering wheel — pull your hands toward you and push back out for an acceleration boost — and their bodies to execute jumps and tricks.
• Kinect Sports - Six activities including boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, soccer and table tennis. To serve a volleyball, you mimic the real motion; in soccer, you can kick the ball or do a header.
• Kinect Adventures - Includes a river-raft time trial and obstacle course, playable by up to four players. On the raft, playing as a duo, you and a partner must lean one way or another to steer. Jumping helps the raft reach special areas for extra points.
• Dance Central - In development by MTV Games, brings a So You Think You Can Dance experience home.
• Star Wars characters and iconic Disney favorites will be featured in separate new games being developed at Microsoft in conjunction with LucasArts and Disney.

With Microsoft trying to capture the casual market with Kinect, it's expected that we'll see a whole bunch of Wii-type games. But hopefully we'll also get to see something that can impress the hardcore gamers too.

Expect further details (hopefully a retail price) to be announced at the Project Natal event and Microsoft's press conference later today.