Microsoft’s new XBox project Natal (who chose that name?) may challenge the Nintendo Wii active gaming to a real contest and elevate more gaming couch potatoes into action. A new game called Ricochet, where you punch, kick, and head-butt a ball down a corridor to break apart bricks at the far end is just one of the action-oriented, let’s get that body moving games to debut.

It’s very cool because the XBox Natal game has a camera that tracks the exact movement of each limb going after the careening ball, so you really needed to move that body and reach for each shot. It will make the some of the Wii active games look like limp warm-ups. Hey what ever gets you off the coach and into physical activity!