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Dance Central 3 Release Date And Tracks Announced

2012/07/23
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Cambridge, MA – July 23rd – Get your living rooms ready for the hottest dance party of 2012!  Harmonix is excited to announce that the latest installment in its best-selling dance franchise on Kinect for Xbox 360, Dance Central 3, will be available in stores on October 16th in U.S., Canada and Latin America, and October 19th in Europe, Asia, Australia and Japan!

With more than 40 tracks on the disc, Dance Central 3 includes previously announced music by Usher, 50 Cent, Cobra Starship, and more. Today, Harmonix is announcing 11 additional tracks for the soundtrack, each with authentic dance routines created by professional choreographers, including:

  • 2NE1 – “I Am The Best (Original Version)”
  • Alice Deejay – “Better Off Alone”
  • Backstreet Boys – “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”
  • J.J. Fad – “Supersonic”
  • Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz ft. Ying Yang Twins – “Get Low”
  • LMFAO – “Sexy And I Know It”
  • Los Del Rio – “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”
  • Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera – “Moves Like Jagger”
  • Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby”
  • Vicki Sue Robinson – “Turn The Beat Around”
  • Village People – “Y.M.C.A.”

Dance Central 3 will feature a fun and exciting story mode that has players traveling back through time to learn classic dance moves from past decades alongside their favorite crews and characters from the series. Today, Harmonix revealed that Flash4ward, a fan-favorite crew made up of Taye and Lil’ T, will make their return in Dance Central 3, repping the fly look of the 1990s in a killer house party venue! Stay tuned for reveals of both new and familiar faces in some surprising venues in the coming months.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops II Video With Trent Reznor

2012/07/22
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They made a behind the scenes video for Call Of Duty: Black Ops II and it rocks.

Here’s the official description:

To create a game like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Treyarch assembled some of the greatest talents in the world. David S. Goyer (co-writer of The Dark Knight Rises), Trent Reznor (Academy Award-winning composer of The Social Network), join Studio Head, Mark Lamia and the game’s Director, Dave Anthony, to discuss the relationship between movies, music and games, as well as the creative process behind Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

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Paradox On Tour With Rock And Games

2012/07/22
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NEW YORK— Paradox Interactive, self-proclaimed masters of game publishing and power chords alike, today issued a warning to the world: starting today, game fans everywhere had better be ready to rock. Paradox

Interactive has its roadies working around the clock, loading weapons into the tour bus, pumping the tank full of starvoid, and preparing to embark on a coast-to-coast tour where six upcoming games will perform a series of incredible shows.

To follow the excitement all summer long, Paradox Interactive fans are being issued a backstage pass in the form of the Paradox on Tour Blog, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes developer stories, world premiere videos, special guest

profiles for the upcoming War of the Roses tournament (announcement coming soon!), and plenty of rock’n’roll pictures.

The lineup of games hitting the road with Paradox is as follows:

• Salem: The Crafting MMO – Live the grungy life of a colonial settler in an unforgiving MMORPG

• War of the Roses – Engage in brutal team-based melee combat and give your enemies a taste of your death metal

• A Game of Dwarves – A really underground dwarf management sim; only if you are part on the exciting underground scene will you have heard about it

• Dungeonland – Co-op hack & slash with an alternative twist: one evil GM controls the dungeon against his “friends”

• Starvoid – Multiplayer real-time strategy in space with an army of techno-droids

• The Showdown Effect – Freestyle sidescrolling combat with a fusion of 1980s character archetypes

• SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST – An unannounced game will make its debut during the tour… don’t miss it!

The Paradox on Tour Blog kicks off with an all-new video of Salem, making its worldwide debut. To follow the tour and catch the latest exclusives, visit http://paradox-interactive-on-tour.tumblr.com/

War Of The Roses Tournament Airing On TwitchTV

2012/07/22
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NEW YORK – As part of its Six Games and Rock ‘n’ Roll tour, Paradox Interactive today announced that it will host a tournament of champions for upcoming medieval multiplayer game War of the Roses.  Pitting game industry veterans against each other in the first ever US tournament for the ambitious and gritty third-person action title, the live stream event will take place on July 27 from 4pm-8pm PST and can be viewed at www.twitchtv.com/paradoxinteractive

Billed as one of the most brutal tournaments to take place this year, the entire competition will be broadcast online via TwitchTV and will play host to a variety of specially invited guests that will get the chance to play against (read: stab) each other while the whole world is watching.  Totaling 20 competitors in all, these exclusively invited individuals include broadcasters SeaNanners, TotalBiscuit, Angry Joe, and many more, as well as developers from Paradox Interactive and a team of miscreants from TwitchTV. Commentary will be provided by War of the Roses producer Gordon Van Dyke and gaming veteran Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez.

War of the Roses is a gritty third-person multiplayer action game that seeks to put large teams of players into the muddied mail boots of medieval soldiers, allowing them to unlock a wealth of persistent elements as a 1,500lb mounted knight, nimble archer, cunning footmen or anything in between.

Tune in LIVE and see the mayhem unravel by heading to the official Paradox TwitchTV channel at www.twitchtv.com/paradoxinteractive .  Players who like to get their hands dirty can sign up for the War of the Roses beta at www.waroftherosesgame.com .

Here is one of the E3 2012 trailer!

Hard Reset: A Visual Journey Released For Free

2012/07/21
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To celebrate the 75% off Steam Sale on the old school FPS Hard Reset Extended Edition, the folks at Flying Wild Hog have release The Art of Hard Reset: A Visual Journey as a free pdf.  The file is filled with concept art, renders and the price is definitely right.  All you have to do is go to http://www60.zippyshare.com/v/95173254/file.html or http://www.mediafire.com/view/?r22dnwyc25rn5w2 and download away!  The Steam Sale only goes through July 23rd so if you like what you see act fast.

NAMCO BANDAI Announces Ninostarter For Ni no Kuni

2012/07/21
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NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. is giving JRPG fans the opportunity to add additional bonus items to the recently announced Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard’s Edition through a program called Ninostarter. Ninostarter is an exclusive North American crowd sourcing initiative where NAMCO BANDAI Games America will harness the enthusiasm of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch fans to unlock additional items that will be included in the North American Wizard’s Edition when the game ships on January 22, 2013.

Ninostarter works by tracking the number of Wizard’s Edition preorders being placed exclusively on www.clubNamco.com; as the Wizard’s Edition preorder numbers rise, additional Wizard’s Edition items will be unlocked when pre-established levels of preorders are reached. Fans will have to act fast to unlock additional items in the Wizard’s Edition as clubNamco.com will stop taking preorders for the Wizard’s Edition on August 31, 2012 in North America.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is an epic tale of a boy name Oliver traveling between two worlds on a noble quest to save his mother.  The game is developed by the critically acclaimed Japanese development studio, LEVEL-5 (Professor Layton video game series).  Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch features animations and cut-scenes produced and supervised by the legendary Japanese animation company, Studio Ghibli, (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away) and features music scored by the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch will be available on the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system on January 22, 2013 in North America.  For more information about Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, please visit: http://www.namcobandaigames.com.  To track the progress of Ninostarter, please visit: www.ninostarter.com.

Here’s a trailer!

Jet Set Radio Jumps Platforms In HD

2012/07/21
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SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON – SEGA of America Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd. today disclosed that their much-anticipated HD remake of Jet Set Radio will also be available on iOS and Android devices when the world-famous graffiti game comes to consoles and PC digital download this summer.

Jet Set Radio for iOS and Android includes the same slick gameplay, genre-blending soundtrack, and pioneering art style as the other versions alongside new features like OpenFeint and Retina display support and the awesome ability to use pictures taken with your phone or tablet’s camera as in-game graffiti!  Traverse Shibuya terminal on the train, silence the Love Shockers on your lunch break, blast through Benten-cho while boarding a bus and upload achievements to Facebook while riding a ferry; Jet Set Radio will be a dream come true for portable gamers everywhere!

Jet Set Radio will also be released on the Xbox LIVE Arcade, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Vita and PC download this summer.  For more information on Jet Set Radio, please visit www.sega.com.

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Carrier Command: Gaea Updates Beta And Pre-Order Dates

2012/07/21
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Prague, Czech Republic – After a successful run of more than three months, Bohemia Interactive has announced it will discontinue the Play & Contribute Beta for Carrier Command: Gaea Mission.  The P&C beta will be replaced by a pre-order deal on Monday, July 30th which means people still have one and a half week left to seize the heavily discounted Play & Contribute offer (which includes beta-access and a digital copy of the final game) on Bohemia Interactive’s Store.bistudio.com.

Lead Designer, Jaroslav Kasnı, said:

“As a result of the Play & Contribute Beta, we’ve been able to improve almost every aspect of the game. It was inspiring and motivating to see the wonderful response from our already passionate community. On behalf of me and all my colleagues, I’d like to thank you all for the great support!”

Starting July 30th pre-order will be available at 25% off until the end of August with access to the latest beta build.

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Foster The People Coming To Rock Band

2012/07/21
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Cambridge, Mass. – Harmonix has announced that tracks from Foster the People and The Strokes are headed to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360, PlayStation3 and Wii.

Rock Band provides the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums through the Rock Band music platform, which features more than 1,400 artists and more than 3,500* tracks via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/songs).  Tracks downloaded from the Rock Band Music Store are compatible with the award-winning full-band Rock Band 3 experience, as well as the upcoming controller-based Rock Band Blitz, coming summer of 2012 for Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network!

Foster the People makes their debut in Rock Band this month with two singles: “Helena Beat,” the opening track from the group’s debut album, Torches, and “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls),” also from the group’s first studio effort. Foster the People’s popular single, “Pumped Up Kicks,” will be available in the upcoming Rock Band Blitz, coming this summer for Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStationNetwork!

Additionally, The Strokes’ “Under Cover of Darkness,” from the group’s fourth studio album, Angles, will also be available. An optional Pro Guitar and Pro Bass upgrade will be available for the track, which was named one of the “150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years” by British music magazine NME.

Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation®3 system (July 24th, 2012):

  • Foster the People – “Helena Beat” O
  • Foster the People – “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)” O
  • The Strokes – “Under Cover of Darkness”  X

Tracks marked with “O” feature support for keyboards; tracks marked with “X” will offer Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.

Price:
$1.99 USD (160 Microsoft Points™,200 Wii Points™) per song
$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points™, 100 Wii Points™) per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **