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With its ability to track the movement of 20 limbs, Kinect is well-suited to Dance Central and its hundreds of dance moves. In an interview with MCV, Harmonix says embracing Microsoft’s motion accessory rather than PlayStation Move or Wii was an easy choice. Kinect was a no-brainer because you don’t …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Dance Central
What made you want to develop Dance Central?Kasson Crooker, project director: We’ve wanted to do it for a long time. Over five years ago a bunch of us into hip-hop and dance music said someday we need to make a dance game, because it’s perfectly aligned with music. We looked …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Rock Band 3
Innovate or die. Harmonix says it’s this belief that is key to competing in the increasingly fierce music games market. And this developer is certainly not lacking in innovation. Since producing the first two Guitar Hero titles, the firm was bought out by Viacom and MTV Games in 2006 and …
Read More »Is the set-top box revolution upon us?
Not so fast. YouView’s plan to launch an app store for the TV is emblematic of significant changes ahead. Clearly there’s a battle the three format-holders have seen coming. Their integrated channels for iPlayer, Sky and movie content are built to maintain an edge not just over each other, but …
Read More »Splash Damage: Risk is massive for indie devs
UK studio highlights need of publishing support for independent developers
Read More »Crytek shopping TimeSplitters to publishers
Studio boss Karl Hilton in talks over franchise revival; team has â??phenomenal enthusiasmâ? for project
Read More »Sony admits to developing smartphone product
It’s clearly not yet ready to talk openly about either the PlayStation Phone or the PSP 2, but Sony has at least gone as far as to confess that it is developing a smartphone product in correlation with Sony Ericsson. As for the new PSP product, as mentioned, I know …
Read More »The surprise cast of Black Ops zombie mode
Early footage of next week’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has revealed that the much heralded zombie mode has taken a surprising new turn, casting players as one of two former US presidents and one overseas leader. As can be seen in the picture below courtesy of Kotaku, gamers have …
Read More »Jagex crowned UK Developer Of The Year
RuneScape studio scoops gong at 28th Golden Joysticks
Read More »Golden Joystick Awards 2010: The Winners
A round-up of those waking away with a gong from this yearâ??s consumer awards event
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