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A recently surfaced trademark has revealed that a new (music?) rhythm game is in the works at the excellent Harmonix to follow up on the studio’s Rock Band and instantly popular Dance Central games.
While Harmonix is giving Rock Band a break in 2011 and is currently working on Dance Central 2, this new title will form part of the company’s drive to develop new new original concepts to spread its love of combining music with games.
Starting today and ending June 20th, Xbox LIVE Gold members will be able to take advantage of special price offers on a range of Dance Central downloadable content, which means you’ll be able to imbue your Kinect dance routine with even more songs!
Here’s the list of song packs and songs:
If you haven’t experienced the fun that is Dance Central yet, then you’d better start downloading the demo for the game right now!
If you already have the awesome Kinect-enabled dancing game then you’ll be happy to know that a whole bunch of new songs are now available to add to the 32-song on-disc soundtrack. This includes songs from Gwen Stefani, Fatboy Slim and Paula Abdul, with each song priced at 240 MS Points.
Major Nelson has revealed the next batch of content scheduled to hit Xbox LIVE Marketplace over the next few weeks, including Deals of the Week, bunches of downloadable content, Games on Demand, Xbox LIVE Avatar accessories and Xbox LIVE Arcade games!
The Major also reminds us about an upcoming free weekend on Xbox LIVE (so those of us who haven’t yet subscribed to a Gold account can experience the features that a membership will allow you), as well as a special price sale on downloadable content from a variety of different publishers.
Get all of that information below:
Sales tracking and market research firm NPD recently released sales data for the US videogame industry for the month of December, while also revealing interesting statistics on the state of the market over 2010 as compared to 2009.
Total sales for the US videogame industry during the month of December 2010, (which includes hardware, software and accessories) came to $5.06 billion, down 9% compared to December 2009 when sales reached $5.55 billion.
US sales tracking firm NPD has just released the latest sales data for the videogame industry recorded over the month of November, and according to this data, the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Xbox 360’s Kinect, and the Xbox 360 itself managed boost total industry sales by 8% as compared to November 2009.
Total sales for the industry amounted to $2.99 billion, as the software category accounted for $1.46 billion (up by 4% from last year) and hardware claimed $1.08 billion (up 2%). Accessory sales were posted at $413.13 million (up a whopping 69%).
Dance Central fans will be able to enjoy three new songs today, courtesy of MTV Games and Harmonix.
The new downloadable content will include ‘I Gotta Feeling’ from The Black Eyed Peas, ‘Word Up!’ from Cameo and ‘Whoomp! (There It Is)’ from Tag Team. It will be available from today with each song costing 240 MS Points.
As you may have already guessed, Microsoft’s Kinect controller-free motion control gaming device launched in the US today, and with it, a host of games for gamers (and non-gamers) to experience a whole new way of interacting with virtual worlds, not to mention a whole new way to interact with your Xbox 360!
While we wait for the launch of Kinect here in South Africa (and other regions such as the UK and Europe) next week on November 10th, we’ve put together a healthy collection of El33tonline’s previous impressions of the some of the top games now available in the US for Kinect.
It recently came to the attention of consumer site Joystiq that copies of Dance Central, one of the headline games for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect launch next week, have been recalled from retail warehouses in North America due to a misprint error in the manuals included with copies of the game.
New copies of Dance Central will be shipped to stores next week to coincide with the planned launch of Kinect, Xbox 360’s controller-free gaming device, on November 4th in the US.
Microsoft issued the following statement regarding the Dance Central recall:
One of the veritable ‘killer apps’ for Xbox 360’s upcoming controller-free motion technology, Kinect, is sure to be the rhythm dancing game Dance Central.
According to El33tonline’s preview of Dance Central, Rock Band creators Harmonix seem to have perfectly captured what gamers (and non-gamers) would want in a dancing title, and have provided an enormous amount of dance moves (and a great facility for learning all of those moves) so that after only a short time with the game, you’ll probably be able to moonwalk your way onto a real dance floor and tear it up.
El33tonline was fortunate enough to attend gamescom 2010 in Cologne, Germany last month. We got to spend some amazing hands-on time with a vast number of awesome games and chat to their developers. Certainly the highlight was meeting some of the industry’s icons.
All in all it was an amazing experience that enabled us to share a wealth of information with you, our readers. We hope to be back next year to continue bringing unique quality content to the South African gaming community.
Here is a round-up of our hottest coverage from the event:
Dance Central is a dance game that sees gamers using their own body to perform dance moves, controller free thanks to Kinect. The game is currently in development at Harmonix, who are no strangers to the music genre having created the successful Rock Band franchise. It will be one of the 15 launch titles available when Kinect hits shelves on the 4th of November in North America and a few days later on the 10th of November across South Africa and Europe.
Dance Central was one of the most popular titles on display, both at the gamescom Xbox 360 booth and at the pre-gamescom Play Day held recently in Cologne, Germany. El33tonline put their grooves to the test and discovered why you just can’t stop the beat!
On a gloomy, wet and cold day in Cologne, Germany, El33tonline set off on an adventure through the streets of the city on a quest to discover the location of Microsoft’s pre-gamescom event, the ‘ Play Day,’ a product showcase that was said to give games media extended (and first time) hands-on time with a slew of Kinect titles, two blockbusters, and a few recently announced games and initiatives.
Once we found the event (situated in a peculiar location, in a row of highly unassuming buildings housing factory equipment), we also found that we hadn’t been led astray – there were indeed a host of upcoming Xbox 360 and PC (Games For Windows LIVE) titles available to play.
And play was done.
MTV Games and Harmonix have revealed a few more tracks that we can expect to see when Rock Band 3 and Dance Central launch later this year.
The Rock Band 3 setlist will include tracks from Marilyn Manson, Filter, Foreigner, Def Leppard, The B-52’s and Tears for Fears. Meanwhile Dance Central fans can look forward to heating up the dance floor with tunes from Snoop Dog, Salt-N-Pepa and Young MC.
Hit the jump to see the artist and track details below:
After the Game Critics Awards nominated its top picks for best showings during E3 2010 in categories including ‘Best of Show,’ ‘Best Console Game’ and ‘Best Hardware,’ the organisation has today announced its award winners in each category.
id Software’s first-person shooter, RAGE, walks away with three awards, Portal 2 gets two, Dance Central also receives two nods, while Nintendo’s 3DS is awarded two final placings as well.
This means that Disney Epic Mickey, despite being nominated for four awards, gets nothing.
Get the full list below:
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