News Tagged: Upcoming Releases
News: Ubisoft Announces The Avengers Game for Kinect
To arms!
Ubisoft wants to get you in The Avengers with a new Kinect game due later this year. The action game will land alongside a Wii U version and is in the works at Ubisoft Quebec, the team behind the rather good PowerUp Heroes. Expect to see more — you guessed it — at E3. Continue Reading »
News: 505 Games Rescues miCoach from Kinect Limbo
Back on track
Adidas training tool miCoach has been picked up by publisher 505 Games for a release later this year. Originally the sporty collaboration was due to come courtesy of THQ, but contract disputes meant that plan fell through. Now 505 is bringing it to Xbox 360 this summer. It's developed by experienced Kinect fitness team Chromativity —.. Continue Reading »
News: Ice Age Tie-In Coming to Kinect This Year
Arctic edge
Activision's just announced it's bringing Ice Age: Continental Draft — Arctic Games to Kinect in 2012. Guess what? It's a minigame compilation. Nobody could have guessed that. If you're saying you guessed that, you're lying. The story says something about the team splitting a secret treasure through a series of "off-the-wall... Continue Reading »
News: Majesco Announces NBA Baller Beats for Kinect
It'll have you dribbling
Majesco and HB Studios have just revealed NBA Baller Beats, a new basketball-music hybrid coming to Kinect this Fall. The official description puts as much emphasis on the music as it does the action, which makes us wonder if the game will take the rhythm action approach — hey, if Kinect Star Wars can do it... — but we.. Continue Reading »
News: Disney Wants You to Be Brave on Kinect
Red hair optional
Not content with inspiring Kinect Rush: A Disney•Pixar Adventure with its past works, Disney•Pixar's next movie Brave will get its own Kinect-powered game too. Coming this summer, the third-person adventure game isn't Kinect exclusive: sounds to us like the sensor will only be used in an archery spin-off mode, but we've been... Continue Reading »
News: Fit Music is Kinect's Most Self-Explanatory Game
Can you tell what it is yet?
Fitness, dancing, Kinect: the holy trinity for game publishers. The next company to try its luck is Oxygene Media with the ingeniously titled Fit Music. Fronted by European fitness champion Patrizia Salviato — described as "one of the best body building superstars ever" by Oxygene — the game is coming to.. Continue Reading »
News: Country Dance All Stars Hits the Floor on 27th March
Dig out those dancing boots
The Kinect has seen its fair share of dancing games, with Country Dance All Stars stepping onto the dance floor to show that Lady Gaga isn't where it's at. For those keen to unleash their inner cowboy — or cowgirl — there isn't long to wait. GameMill Entertainment has confirmed that this title will hit stores on 27.. Continue Reading »
News: New Kinect Star Wars Trailer Shows the Force
Is it from the dark side?
Kinect Star Wars is only a few weeks away, potentially giving gamers an opportunity to live out some long held fantasies. That's the idea, in any case, and some promotional footage for the game seems to try and show the variety of the experience. With footage of podracing, lightsaber duelling and, bizarrely, dancing, this.. Continue Reading »
News: Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor "Nearly Complete"
Not nearly enough
Kinect-exclusive mech-walker war game Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor — and people say there are no hardcore games on Kinect — is nearing completion, according to producer Kenjii Kataoka. The statement came at the same event that revealed Project Draco's new form as Crimson Dragon, but Capcom's robot sim wasn't in playable form,.. Continue Reading »
News: Have a Hoedown for this Country Dance Trailer
Yeehaw
Did yesterday's Country Dance All Stars track list get you all fired up for Kinect's first country and western themed dancing game? Then this first trailer should really knock your socks off. Due for release in March, Country Dance All Stars has over 40 tracks and the promise of more through post-launch DLC. Mosey on down to the trailer and let us know what you think in the comments below. Continue Reading »
News: Looks Like More Just Dance Games Coming to Kinect
"Best of" rated
The Australian Classifications board has just rated Just Dance Best Of for multiple platforms, leading us to believe we're staring down the barrel of more garishly gaudy and hilarious dancing on Kinect later this year. If we were to don our speculation pantaloons we'd expect this to be a disc of songs previously released on Just Dance and Just Dance 2 on Wii. We expect to hear more.. Continue Reading »
News: Country Dance All Stars Song List Confirmed
Yeehaw
Want to know which of your favourite country music stars will feature in the upcoming Country Dance All Stars, due out later next month? Well boy howdy, have we got a treat for you. Featuring no fewer than three artists called Josh — Kelley, Thompson and Turner, of course — as well as classic acts Johnny Cash, Carrie Underwood and, er, Trace Adkins, the game has over 30 songs from the.. Continue Reading »
News: Blam! It's a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Trailer
Take cover
Hotly anticipated shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is still several months away, but this new trailer below might help fill some of those empty months. Detailing the single-player campaign and some of the brand new gadgets at your disposal to destroy terrorists, it doesn't shed any light on Kinect features but it's still a good watch all the same. You can read our Ghost.. Continue Reading »
News: Rhythm Party Release Date Grooves Forward a Week
Shame about the name
Perhaps out of shame at having the worst name of any Kinect game so far — even worse than you, Let's Cheer! — Konami has brought forward the release of its Xbox Live Arcade game Rhythm Party by one week. The XBLA title now drops next Wednesday, 1st February, for 800 Microsoft Points. Here's the official blurb with some screenshots to follow: "Rhythm Party" is a.. Continue Reading »
News: Zumba Fitness Rush Video Shakes and Shimmies
We're tired just watching
Zumba Fitness Rush is heading towards its 13th February release date with a brand new trailer in tow. The video shows off some of the new features and gameplay modes that make up Majesco's sequel, with the game due to get extra songs through Xbox Live Marketplace throughout the year. Here's hoping it can improve on the disappointing original, which scored 5/10 in our Zumba.. Continue Reading »
News: Zumba Fitness Rush North American Release Date Announced
Out in February
Zumba Fitness Rush is coming to Kinect in North America just in time for Valentine's Day. Majesco's second Zumba game lands on 13th February. The game will receive extra content after launch in the shape of add-on songs and workouts. MAJESCO ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS THE DANCE-FITNESS PARTY HOME ON FEBRUARY 13TH WITH ZUMBA® FITNESS RUSH, EXCLUSIVELY ON KINECT FOR XBOX 360 The.. Continue Reading »
News: SEGA's 2012 Olympics Game Gains Kinect Support
Back on track
SEGA' has today announced London 2012: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games will include Kinect features. By the sounds of it you won't be able to take on all 30 events with Kinect: the press release only mentions 110m hurdles and beach volleyball, already seen in the likes of Kinect Sports of course. Here's the first trailer, with work in progress screenshots below. CREATE.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure Scans You In
Get into the game
Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure uses one of Kinect's most-vaunted original features: the ability to scan yourself in to create a virtual avatar. Of course we've seen this feature used in Kinect Fun Labs so it's not a first, but if it works as well as this trailer below promises — a wish that rarely comes true, admittedly.. Continue Reading »
News: Binary Domain Trailer is Bigger Than You Think
New release dates too
SEGA's cyborg shooter Binary Domain will support Kinect for voice commands, which seems to be the in thing with hardcore games this year: Mass Effect 3 and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will also support the sensor for talking to your team. None of them has quite the same level of madcap action as Binary Domain. Coming from Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza creator.. Continue Reading »
News: Go Behind the Scenes in Zumba Fitness Rush for Kinect
Shake it!
Zumba Fitness Rush is due for release on Kinect next month, but publisher Majesco just put out a short behind-the-scenes video showing you just what goes into turning a fitness phenomenon into a video game. The sequel to 2010's Zumba Fitness: Join the Party contains voice control, 42 new songs and routines and the promise of more content via download after launch. Zumba® Fitness Rush,.. Continue Reading »
