King of Pop on Kinect

Michael Jackson: The Experience launched on Wii, DS and PSP in late 2010 but its Kinect appearance was delayed, presumably for the addition of "the extra level of polish that fans demand". Now Ubisoft has announced the game's official release date for everyone to assess the depth of polish: April 12th in North America, April 14th in Europe.

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Move title gets new tracks

Michael Jackson: The Experience launched on Wii, DS and PSP in late 2010 but its appearance on PlayStation 3 was pushed back until 2011, and now Ubisoft has revealed the exact date fans will be able to get their white gloved hands on the game: April 12th in North America, April 14th in Europe.

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200 Points for animal puzzler

Gamelion's Boom Boom Squaries is an off-shoot of its Furry Legends series, heading to DSiWare in Europe on January 28th.

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#FF for @jonwahlgren and @nintendolife in preparation for next week's 3DS events in New York and Amsterdam. It's going to be amazing!

Fight some critters in Animal Boxing

There's nothing funny about animal cruelty or boxing, but we defy you not to raise a smile at this video of Animal Boxing, heading to DSiWare on Monday.

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While EA's next golf game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters is heading to PlayStation Move and Wii, the Xbox 360 version won't be supporting Microsoft's motion-controller gadget. According to EA Sports top dog Peter Moore, it's not due to a lack of effort, just a lack of time.

The team basically ran out of time from a development perspective. We were looking at how we could integrate the technology that is Kinect, which is obviously doing very well, and put it into a game that requires you to hold something to have that real element of integration and authenticity.

It likely didn't help that this year's Tiger outing is launching months before its usual Autumn release, but at least we know the company investigated a hands-free approach to golf, so we could yet see Tiger come to Kinect in future instalments.

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Finally got Twitter working on the go. Welcome to DaddyNewts 2.0!

Investment opens doors

Israeli firm PrimeSense developed some of the technology that makes Kinect possible, and naturally it's now attracted the eye of investors who have pumped some $50m into the company. The money's purpose isn't known yet, and while it could be used to improve Kinect, it's more likely to end up bringing Kinect-like experiences to other formats.

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Accessories unleashed

Here's a question for you: would you release an accessory for a console that wasn't available? Probably not, and chances are the folks at iMP Gaming wouldn't either, which makes the launch of their 3DS cases across Europe and North America in February an interesting proposition.

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Crazy comments from top dog

We could have had 3D gaming years ago, had Nintendo's experiments with the Virtual Boy, Famicom Disk System, GameCube and GameBoy Advance gone better. Does this frustrate President Satoru Iwata? Of course, but it also seemingly makes him hungry, if his comments in the latest Iwata Asks are anything to go by:

I don’t know if this is a very good example or not, but when you’re making hardware, it’s like you’re sitting in a conveyor-belt sushi shop staring at the various technologies as they pass by. As you’re watching, the moment comes when you say, “Agh! That’s what I want!” and suddenly you reach out and grab something. I think that’s what hardware development is like.

Shigeru Miyamoto joined in with the sushi theme:

You hesitate over sushi items you haven’t eaten before, and sometimes you get fooled. You snatch it up, but it’s no good.

We've tasted the 3DS and, like you, we're hungry for more. there'll be live updates next Wednesday, January 19th, letting you know when the 3DS restaurant is open for business and how much you'll be charged for a nibble.

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