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Harmonix Let A Fan Make The End Credits To One Of Their Games

I’ve never “finished” a Dance Central game because, every time I start playing, the booze eventually runs out, and/or people eventually go home. I could play it sober, by myself, but, um, no.


Watch As This Cool Heart Monitor Hack Makes “Call Me Maybe” Sound Even More Ridiculous

Look, at this point, the only thing that Carly Rae Jepsen’s ubiquitous pop hit is good for is experimentation. And, whether you love or hate “Call Me Maybe,” you’ve got to admire what programmer Ryan Challinor — who works at Dance Central and Rock Band developer Harmonix — does to the song.


Dance Central 3 Designer: Kinect Devs Need To Do Better Than ‘Oh, It Works’

Last week, I talked to the people who make the best Kinect games. The topic of discussion? One of the worst Kinect games.


Dance Central 3 Makes You Shake Your Arse For Justice And Combat

You know that feeling when you finally get your hands on the BFG 9000 in Doom or the gravity gun in Half-Life 2? It’s a sensation that you’re about to become nigh-omnipotent, able to blast enemies out of existence withlittle effort. It gives you goosebumps.


The People Who Make Rock Band Are Working On A Real-Time Combat Game

Musical combat? Combat musical? Rock Band: Combat? Combat: The Beatles? Harmonix, the company behind games like Dance Central and the upcoming Rock Band Blitz, is looking for a Combat Designer “to create real-time, singleplayer combat experiences for a brand new IP on next-generation hardware”.


Time Traveling Dance Central 3 Gets An October Release Date And Vanilla Ice

The motion tracking dance game that made Kinect seem so interesting turns three-games-old this fall, as Harmonix announces an October 16 release date for Dance Central 3, the only game to combine “Ice, Ice Baby”, the Macarena and time travel.


I’ve Avoided Dancing Since High School. Dance Central 3 Broke My Streak.

There are some things in the world that are always true: The sun rises in the east. Water is wet. Kate Cox does not dance, and you cannot make her. Not even with alcohol involved.


First Footage Of Dance Central 3 Unveiled

Everybody’s favourite — or secretly favourite — Kinect game, Dance Central, just got its second sequel. The third game in the series sees players taken back in time, dancing to tracks from the ’70s right through to the present day.


On Playing Dance Central 2… While Male

Recently my friend, who for this article we’ll call “Dan”, was over at my apartment for beers and video games. We’d gone through most of the big recent releases — I showed him some craziness from Saints Row: The Third, got across the gist of Catherine and played some (shockingly fun) split-screen Modern Warfare 3 spec-ops. The Kinect had gotten a go as well, and we’d laughed our way through several levels of Gunstringer and gotten our arses kicked by the surprisingly difficult Child of Eden.


Dancing Games Hit Their Stride, Show Huge Growth In Sales

The Los Angeles Times has taken a look at the October NPD numbers, which show that dancing games like Just Dance 3 and Dance Central 2 have grown in sales 326 per cent over last year. That far outpaces the next nearest fastest-growing genre, fighting games, which grew just 33 per cent over the same period of time.


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