Well now we know where one of those 25 million copies of Ubisoft’s Just Dance games ended up: in Britney Spears’s living room, where the all-singing, all-dancing performance artist recorded her son Preston getting down to a little “Shake Your Groove Thing”.
Go ahead, smirk just like you do when you pass a display of Ubisoft’s dancing franchise games at Target or Kmart. With 25 million copies sold across six titles, odds are you secretly own a copy of Just Dance yourself.
Somewhere inside the Beltway today, copies of Just Dance 3 for the Wii and The Sims Plus Pets rode in a presidential caravan with the nuclear football. That, gang, is core game cred.
The Just Dance series is the kind of red-hot gaming franchise that can pull in a guest character like Nintendo’s Super Mario. But who knew that such a combo would be so… colourful.
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.
New York Comic-Con’s Just Dance 3 stage was always filled with an interesting mix of cosplayers, but these are my favorite: A dozen assassins from Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed line dancing to Sugarhill Gang’s Jump On It with the help of Ubisoft’s other major hit… Just Dance.
Some of us would admit to playing Just Dance in the privacy of our own homes. I’m not saying I would, mind you—certainly not on the internet. But these poor folks had to dance day after day for the duration of E3 to promote Just Dance 3 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. So let’s give ‘em a round of applause. Just, no handshakes, please: they’re bound to be too gross and sweaty.
Chase’s dad is working out. Part of his workout regimen involves getting the hell down with some Britney Spears jams in Just Dance 2. We are the ones who benefit from Chase’s sneaky video of dad getting loose to “Toxic”.
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Late last night I got bundled up in my warmest clothes, kicked my Nissan Pathfinder until it started moving, and braved extensive imaginary lines, all in the name of picking up World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion… strategy guide.