Beats stiff Kinect competition
Last night saw the BAFTA Video Games Awards held in deepest darkest London, with bright and breezy sensor-shifter Kinect Sports picking up the award for Best Family Game.
The only award that counts
Nintendo's jewel in its Wii crown, Super Mario Galaxy 2, was honoured at the BAFTA Video Games Awards last night, taking home the award for Best Gameplay. The plumber beat competition from Heavy Rain, God of War III, Mass Effect 2 and more, though Mario's space sequel lost to BioWare's space sequel in the Best Game category.
Critical mass
Sony's Heavy Rain was one of the stand-out games of 2010 whether playing with Move or DualShock, and last night's BAFTA Video Games Awards have honoured Quantic Dream's game with a trio of statues.
Secret title unearthed
Retailers are a tremendous bunch when it comes to revealing games that aren't yet officially confirmed. In February, Play.com leaked Let's Dance, and now UK retailer Gamestation has done its bit for the world information economy by leaking Ubisoft Kinect game Adrenaline.
Celebrate with new video
If you've read our StarDrone review and still aren't entirely sure what BeatShapers' PSN title is all about, perhaps this new video below might help you out.
Film tie-in gets motion outing
The original Kung Fu Panda on Xbox 360 wasn't the most inspiring of movie tie-ins, fun though it was to smash and roll through the world as porky panda Po. For the follow-up, publisher THQ has gone with the only controller capable of putting Po's kung fu moves into the gaming world: Kinect.
Grab your wood
It's nearly time for Tiger to take to the fairway again, with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters out in a matter of weeks, and now European gamers can get a taste of Tiger's wood with a free Move-enabled demo of the game.
Slight delay
We reported last week that the demo for PlayStation Move Heroes was available on PlayStation Store, yet the update came and went with no sign of the demo. For unknown reasons it appears the demo was delayed for a week, but is now available to download in both North America and Europe.
A bit of class
DS paint programme Art Academy has been out for a good while now, starting off on DSiWare as Art Academy: First Semester and Art Academy: Second Semester, and now Nintendo is bringing the cartridge compilation to select schools across North America to help students express their creative side.
"Hit" show on the way
The world's biggest games publisher, Activision, announced its first Kinect title today, and it might surprise some. With a catalogue that includes Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk's Skateboarding and more, the mega-publisher's first game for Microsoft's sensor is Wipeout In the Zone, a video game version of ABC's super-physical game show.
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