Sensor exceeds expectations
With a few days of sales under its motion-sensing belt, how's Kinect doing according to GameStop, North America's biggest chain of game stores? Very well indeed; in fact, so well that the chain is backing the sensor to come out on top against rival system PlayStation Move.
Pirate shooter ahoy!
It's already been first mate in the shooting compilation Time Crisis: Razing Storm and now Deadstorm Pirates is set to captain its own course towards PlayStation Store this month.
But do they add up?
"Numbers never lie" so goes the age-old axiom, so this chart from the official US PlayStation Blog is a big dollop of fact for you to take in.
Like the Force, only more monkey-like
Remember the controversial Super Guide from New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Super Mario Galaxy 2? If not, it's one of Nintendo's newest software features to keep gamers interested by allowing them to proceed past difficult parts of stages if they lose too many lives there. Whether you liked it or not it's here to stay, as it'll be featured in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
Unlikely to make it this year
When we heard that La-Mulana was finished, submitted and out this year we did a little jump for joy at the prospect of playing the underground adventure before 2011 rolls around. Now that seems unlikely, as the game has failed Nintendo's submission process.LA-MULANA was said “No good” by Nintendo, then it has returned to us. So, we are going to resubmit after fixing it. Will it be released in this year?Although Nigoro didn't specify the reasons for this, there's no doubt this is a spanner in the works and could delay La-Mulana until next year. We'll keep you up to date.
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I'm watching Saved! which is simultaneously nothing like I expected and just what I wanted. Great stuff!
Child of Eden, the spiritual successor to stunning shooter Rez, is on the way to Kinect early next year, but how early? If retailers Game and Gamestation are to be believed, February 11th.
240 MS Points for each track
Dance Central is about to invade Europe on Wednesday, but publisher MTV Games has already unleashed three downloadable songs for the game on the continental marketplace.
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