Ubisoft is upping the Kinect dancing game ante with Just Dance 3's "Just Create" mode. "Just Create" lets you record your own dance moves using Kinect then challenge your friends to recreate them. You can use your custom moves to serve your friends in person or online through Facebook.
Videos of people playing Just Dance, for better or worse, is inevitable. So I guess Ubisoft is just streamlining the process with this one.
Just Dance 3 "Just Create" mode will be an Xbox 360 exclusive when the game launches on October 11.
This week on Retro Game Master The Kacho takes on the side-scrolling platformer The Mystery of Atlantis.
The Mystery of Atlantis was released by Sunsoft for the Family Computer in 1986. In it, players control a boy named Wynn as he explores the mythical land of Atlantis and fights to defeat and ancient evil. The Mystery of Atlantis was developed to take on Super Mario Bros. and featured the ability to move in both directions across a level. The game also included multiple paths to get to the end of a level and enemies that could kill you with a single hit.
The show goes live only on Kotaku at 8 p.m. eastern this Thursday, followed by more weekly episodes "airing" on Kotaku at the same time and day through September. And unlike with television, these episodes will stick around on our site so you can watch them at your own leisure.
Game Center CX produced 15 seasons of gaming content in Japan, with Shinya Arino playing through dozens of Famicom, Super Famicom, PC Engine and Mega Drive games. These first U.S. airings of the episodes includes English captions for Arino and English dubbing for his off-camera announcer.
If you missed it, make sure you go watch last week's episode now. Licensing prevents the show from being seen outside of North America.
People don't tune into Japanese television show Retro Game Master to watch Shinya Arino whip through video games effortlessly. They tune in to watch him fail, and fail, and fail, and perhaps to finally, painfully succeed. More »
Can't get enough of the titillating title character of Catherine? Now Zippo is releasing Catherine and Katherine-themed lighters to really light your fire. I mean, get you hot. Erm, that is, they light up your night. Sorry, it's too easy to make bad puns with this one.
They're only for Japan for now, and currently can be pre-ordered from importers for 9,500 yen (about $120 USD). Just don't use them to smoke, kids!
Last week's drastic, surprising price drop for Nintendo's 3DS gaming portable brought turmoil not just to the last major dedicated gaming hardware company in the world, but also the notion of portable gaming.
While fans of Nintendo worry what impact the nearly one-third price drop on such a new... More »
In third grade, I would draw up notebook-paper hybrids of arcade games. Pac-Man would chase barrels with a hammer and Frogger shot at invaders from the highway. More »
In a world flooded with video game novelizations, only one man has the background to develop the back-story of RU Special Forces operator Dima, one of Battlefield 3's playable characters. More »
In a world flooded with video game novelizations, only one man has the background to develop the back-story of RU Special Forces operator Dima, one of Battlefield 3's playable characters. More »
Our own Michael McWhertor spent the better part of a day last week meeting with Blizzard and playing through a healthy chunk of Diablo III.
What did he find out? More »
Hello Game Clubbers!
I have great news! The good people at 2K have offered to create a CivWorld game especially for our group. However, because they will need to manually add each and every one of us into the game, I will actually need three things from you:
Your first and last name
Your Facebook... More »
After the Supreme Court announced its decision regarding a California law that would have imposed state limitations on children's access to certain video games, a deluge of reactions flooded the Internet. More »
Valve's Dota 2 will be officially shown to the public for the first time at this month's Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany—the same location that will host the game maker's first Dota 2 tournament featuring a million dollar prize.
That's right. More »
Despite a push by tens of thousands of fans to revive recently canceled Capcom game Mega Man Legends 3, the Japanese developer tells Kotaku that they have no plans to resume development.
"We are aware of the fan created Facebook page requesting that we resume development of Mega Man Legends 3,"... More »
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Renaissance man and Gears of War fan Ice-T will lend his acting and musical talents to Epic Games' new shooter, Gears of War 3. The rapper, actor and voice of Gears 3's Griffin has gotten the band (Body Count) back together for a special musical tribute, appropriately titled "The Gears of War."
Ice-T's thrash metal side project performed "The Gears of War" at an E3 2011 event, but now it can be enjoyed by everyone while set to all-new gameplay footage from the fall Xbox 360 game. To prevent awkwardly misheard lyrics, here is the poetic "The Gears of War" by Body Count.
(Watch out for bad language, kids!)
Gold Lancers, Longshots and Drone Guts
C-O-G got the swat gotta blood lust
Unlease the Krill fuck a boom shield
The Hammer of Dawn'll make the Locust kneel
I'm a Hammerburst pro - Headshot Berserkers with the Torque Bow
I give a fuck about Horde
OG Marcus Fenix from the Pendulum Wars
Never Enough - WE WANT MORE
Body parts and brains
Blood on the floor
Never Afraid - WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
We Are - THE GEARS OF WAR
GEARS OF WAR
The Theron Guard tryin' to go hard
Fuckin Snipers tryin' to peel my cap
Make em fall back with a mortar attack
Dark Wretches on my ass get played with an INK GRENADE
Don't make me torch ya with a Scorcher
Corpsers he got with the boomshot
blast you with my Gnasher
We are here to destroy those who oppose
Double barrel to your face
(shotgun blast)
We do not NEGOTIATE
Boomers get mulched up
My chainsaw's all you feel - either that or COLD STEEL.
Never Enough - WE WANT MORE
Body parts and brains
Blood on the floor
Never Afraid - WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
We Are - THE GEARS OF WAR
Never Enough - WE WANT MORE
Body parts and brains
Blood on the floor
Never Afraid - WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
We Are - THE GEARS OF WAR
(Locust Voice)Locust Horde Attack
(Locust Voice) COG Attack
Never Enough - WE WANT MORE
Body parts and brains
Blood on the floor
Never Afraid - WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
We Are - THE GEARS OF WAR
Never Enough - WE WANT MORE
Body parts and brains
Blood on the floor
Never Afraid - WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
We Are - THE GEARS OF WAR
GEARS OF WAR
THE GEARS OF WAR
GEARS OF WAR
Gears of War 3 comes to Xbox 360 on September 20.
You can contact Michael McWhertor, the author of this post, at mike@kotaku.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
FarmVille and Mafia Wars maker Zynga, has been slapped with another lawsuit, this time for patent infringement. New York-based Segan wants to get paid for a 2006 patent it holds—"system for viewing content over a network"—claiming Zynga is violating it. Sound like patent trolling to you? [Bloomberg]
Despite a push by tens of thousands of fans to revive recently canceled Capcom game Mega Man Legends 3, the Japanese developer tells Kotaku that they have no plans to resume development.
"We are aware of the fan created Facebook page requesting that we resume development of Mega Man Legends 3," Capcom spokesman Brian Keltner told Kotaku Monday afternoon. "While Capcom has a built a strong relationship with its community and values their feedback, Mega Man Legends 3 development has officially ceased without plans to resume development."
Keltner also pointed Kotaku to the game's Dev Room where the team explained the decision last month.
"There are tough realities in this industry that are largely left unpublicized for a good reason—because they're tough," Capcom community liaison Greg Moore wrote. All games go through a multi-stage approval process, but most games are not brought to the public's attention until that final approval has been met. With Mega Man Legends 3, exposing the fans to that process was part of the project's core concept—to show everybody what it really means to create a game. We were all in it together here, for better or worse, and now together we must accept the outcome that many games ultimately face."
Shortly after news of the game's cancellation hit, fans created a Facebook page to try and convince Capcom to continue developing the game. The goal of the "100,000 Strong for Bringing Back Mega Man Legends 3" is to have 100,000 Facebook users "like" the page. Currently 36,713 people like the page.
Keltner's comments today, in response to questions about putting the game back into development in light of so much fan support, seems to nix any hope of a fan-driven grass-roots movement changing Capcom's mind about the future of the title.
You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at brian@kotaku.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
Tiara Concerto Online is an anime-flavored massively multiplayer online game that features a strong musical component, a world made up of flying islands accessed by airships, and kitty girls with guns. You ever get the feeling people are developing games just for you?
Coming to North America soon from Gamania Digital Entertainment, Tiara Concerto Online is an MMO with a musical theme and a lighthearted look that belies its more serious theme. Some 800 years ago the humans of Earth fully depleted all of their planet's natural resources, and the world faced extinction. As the world was about to die the Seven Wise Men (important enough for capital letters) opened up a portal to another dimension, saving a handful of humans from their fate.
Now humanity lives in the skies of their new world, populating floating islands. Over the years they've learned a skill called Tuning, allowing them to use music to attune with energy from the past, reclaiming the energy of their homeland.
Here's where the more rational gamer will have a problem. If humanity used up all of its resources and was in the verge of destruction, does stealing resources from the planet's past not just speed up that process?
But who needs common sense when you've got Elves and adorable Beast people at your side, helping you fight the rhythmic monsters in the skies? Watch the trailer again. How cute is that?
Prospective fans can visit the Tiara Concerto Online website to keep up with the North American development of the game. There's a pretty good chance I'll ultimately wind up disappointed; just let me have this moment of hopeful elation.
Shortly after I air-hugged a virtual Mickey Mouse and before I realized that Disneyland Adventures is a love letter to pre-Pixar, pre-CGI, hand-drawn Disney Animation, I decided that this fall's big Disney Kinect game is my most anticipated video game for Microsoft's hands-free controller.
Of course, there aren't that many Kinect games to choose from when you're nominating the Best Kinect Game on the Horizon. The Star Wars game isn't impressive yet. I haven't played Gunstringer. (Crecente did). But, look at the video here... there's stuff to like about this Disney one.
