Someone recommended that I play "this weird dancing game" at PAX East. I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw people spinning around with an iphone between them, but Bounden is easily one of the most fun games I played all weekend.
America's Got Talent is NBC's crowdsourced variety show, designed to get the network from the end of May sweeps to the new fall lineup as cheaply as possible. It still delivers some eye-popping acts, such as Kenichi Ebina, who found the perfect interpretation for his signature reverse-time dance move: a video game.
I could do without the song, but I firmly believe the world would be a better place if everyone took a moment now and then to dance as if they were riding a horse while really having to pee. Apparently someone at Zynga agrees.
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Regardless of your thoughts on underpants or Neo Geo cabinets, there's one thing we should hopefully all be able to agree on: video game comedian Keith Apicary / Nathan Barnatt can dance.
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From High Hrothgar to the Guardian Stones! From Dragonsreach to Wolfskull Cave! Where the hell is Dovahkiin?
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Titled Love☆Tore, the game will have three versions, "Sweet," "Mint," and "Bitter," and are scheduled for release in 2012 Summer, Fall, and Winter, respectively. In the game, the player takes on the…
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How the hell do you mix an RPG with a rhythm game? Iridium Studios' Jason Wishnov shows us how upcoming Xbox Live Indie Game Sequence works.
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SOCOM has always been a great shooter. It has also always had wonderful ways to humiliate the people to take down with headshots, shotgun blasts and pew, pew, pewing.
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This man is playing Dance Central, a dancing video game for the Xbox 360's Kinect sensor. He's at Boston's PAX East gaming convention. He is dancing to Bell Biv Devoe's Poison, a song that taught children of the 90s never to trust a big butt and a smile.
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From the burlesque troop that brought us Metroid's Samus Aran stripped down to her skivvies comes the Anime Babes show, in which Pikachu jumps on stage and ruins childhood memories forever. Much NSFW-ness ensues.
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Dance Central is a dancing rhythm game from the folks who created Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Packed with an eclectic mix of music and dance moves from the artists, it hopes to redefine the way we play dance games.
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Sorry if that sounds a little crass, but recently Metroid star Samus Aran took to the stage during a burlesque show in LA, and that's exactly what she did.
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Some of the more crass video games, those for the unwashed masses, are turned into cartoons, or motion pictures. Something with ambitions as lofty as Braid, though, was never going to settle for such a low-brow adaptation.
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