The Pixar game for the Kinect can be had this spring.
Disney-Pixar today set a release date for Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure. The game will be available on March 20, 2012 and will retail for $50. The new title for the Xbox 360's Kinect add-on will feature characters from Pixar's animated films such as Ratatouille, Cars and Toy Story.
The first week of the second crew of the PixlTalk podcast debuts, complete with Vita whining and a hodgepodge of topics to conclude the show.
As hinted at a couple episodes ago, PixlTalk is going weekly once again. Rather than hearing the same crew every week, each crew will occupy alternating weekly time slots and tonight's episode is the first from the second crew. While Julian will ultimately take over the hosting duties, for this week previous podcast regulars Nick, Chessa, and Jason help break him into his new podcasting role.
Seems rumors of the Vita's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
We reported earlier this week that the Vita would be limited to a single PSN account per system and would require a factory reset to swap to another account. Turns out that isn’t entirely accurate. Sony has stepped forward and clarified that the PSN accounts are bonded to the memory stick and not to the system itself.
Confirmed: navigating 3D space with Kinect is miserable.
Without ever having been to Disneyland, I can only assume that Frontier has done a spectacular job recreating the iconic park. The virtual representation of the park seems to have everything covered, straight down to themed garbage cans, benches, and vending carts. Despite all the effort, it's held back at every turn by the peripheral that should be immersing you. The fact of the matter is, the Kinect controls are cumbersome and unnecessary and often just don’t work right.
Microsoft's problems with the new dashboard continue.
As the new dashboard for the Xbox 360 is introduced to millions of gamers, some changes are upsetting users. IGN is reporting that the Party feature in the Netflix app is no longer there. This feature used to allow Xbox Live subscribers to hang out with their friends' Avatars while watching a movie or show on Netflix. Microsoft offered this statement about the feature's removal:
The skateboard legend hinted a new game on his twitter feed.
Tony Hawk games have taken a turn for the worse recently and after 2009's Tony Hawk's Ride, the series has ceased its yearly iterations and has been MIA ever since. Well, Tony Hawk has teased on his Twitter that he'll be announcing the "upcoming release of something new" on Saturday.
The DLC is called the Mediterranean Travelers Pack.
Gamestop keeps on leaking upcoming products...and here's the latest. Set for a January 24, 2012 release, new downloadable content for Assassin's Creed Revelations is coming and it's called the Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack, according to Destructoid. GameStop's listing has it retailing for $9.99.
The movie tie-in game will show its first trailer at the VGAs.
Activision is publishing a tie-in game for the upcoming movie The Amazing Spider-Man. Both will be released in summer 2012 and the game is being developed by Beenox, the developer behind this year's Edge of Time. It also has an original narrative by Seamus Kevin Fahey. The game will serve as an epilogue to the movie, following events that happened after the movie.
Nathan Drake can retire at any point now.
Uncharted 3 has had impressive sales numbers since its release and we now have some details about the numbers the series has sold as a whole. The Uncharted franchise, since its start in 2007, has shipped over 13 million copies worldwide. This makes the series one of the most popular new IPs of the console generation.
The hardcore RPG fan may have a new banner to rally around.
Starting life as an MMORPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has morphed into one of the more interesting original IPs to be released next year. The game is being developed by industry newcomer 38 Studios and strategy game developer Big Huge Games. These names may not carry much weight, but they have some serious big name talent working on Reckoning’s game world, most notably being revered fantasy author R.A. Salvatore and comic god Todd McFarlane who have created the game world and artwork respectively. Lesser known, but still a heavy lifter in his own right, is Ken Ralston who was the lead designer on Morrowind and Oblivion.
