There's a new pet game on the Kinect block, as THQ today shipped Fantastic Pets to give Microsoft's Kinectimals a run for its gesture-controlled money. Fantastic Pets gives players the chance to interact with their would-be pet animals in a unique new way: through "augmented reality." Although it sounds gimmicky at first, THQ's augmented reality technology could very well bust through the ceiling that many Kinect games have hit in terms of not really pushing the gesture-sensing hardware. Using augmented reality, the … [Read more...]