Back of the class
There’s no shortage of good fitness games for Kinect from EA, Ubisoft and more, but Zumba Fitness: Join the Party is the only one based on a real-life dancing craze. For those in the dark, Zumba is a fitness programme based on high-energy rhythms that’s designed to be taken in large classes, but how does it translate to a mostly solo experience at home?
Groovy
NPD Group has just released its figures for North American software and hardware sales during November, and the company doesn't release solid numbers it does give an overview of how titles have performed. With Kinect launching on November 4th, what software title sold the most units across North America? Harmonix's Dance Central, actually.
Some Kinect games are frightening enough already, but Sega wants to give sensor owners a real scare next year with the release of Rise of Nightmares, the first horror game on the way to Kinect in 2011.
Opposable thumbs mandatory
Sega's Super Monkey Ball series has appeared on every Nintendo console since the GameBoy Advance, so it's no surprise it'll be launching for 3DS next year, with much the same formula that's entertained countless monkey lovers for years.
Of course you do
Remember the early video of Kinect controlling a miniature robot, responding to human directions? This new application of the sensor takes the idea just a little further, putting Kinect on a remote controlled car and getting it to drive itself around, with no human interaction other than a gentle starting push.
Passing shots
Sega's Virtua Tennis 4 is one of the most promising Move and stereoscopic 3D-enabled titles for 2011, and it's this winning combination that producer Mie Kumagai believes will help the series to reach new heights.
Lots of explosions
A PlayStation platform fan's dream-come-true, PlayStation Move Heroes takes Ratchet, Clank, Jak, Daxter, Sly and Bentley and puts them all in one Move-enabled platforming package. If you want to see new screenshots of the game, you've come to the right place.
Do your BIT (updated)
Broken Rules and Gaijin Games have teamed up to offer one generous gamer a free copy of BIT.TRIP FATE. How does one go about earning this prize? By letting other users know how great And Yet It Moves and FATE are. We'll let Broken Rules explain:As you know, both And Yet it Moves and BIT.TRIP FATE have demos available on the Wii Shop Channel for the WiiWare Service. And as you also know, these demos will go away if And Yet it Moves and BIT.TRIP FATE don't get enough ratings through the Nintendo Channel for our games to reach Bronze status.
All sewn up
The NPD figures for November are out, and Sony is pretty pleased with Move's performance, calling it a "blockbuster success" and suggesting we haven't seen the last of already-released titles receiving updates for the motion controller.
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