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Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 launched on Kinect

Earlier today, Ubisoft Australia announced that they have launched the game Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 on the Xbox 360 Kinect. The title allows players to participate in various fitness regimes ranging from dance to yoga; floor excises, cardio and even very rigorous boot camps.

Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 now offers an extensive variety of diverse themed workouts inspired by an array of exotic cultures, including African, Bollywood, Latin and Hip Hop dance fitness classes, and Zen workout sessions. With detailed backdrops and stimulating music inspired by various cultures around the world, these unique options help transform routine workouts into exciting trips around the globe that will not only capture, but keep, players’ attention. The 2012 version also introduces a unique, new feature called Run the World, which will allows players to virtually run through the streets of some of the world’s most beautiful cities, including New York and London.

The game completely utilises Kinect technology to accurately capture player movements for optimal tracking of movements to accurately gauge players movements and offer advice and feedback on proper excecution. Just remember that this is still a game and will therefore feature a a competitve mode in the form of offline multiplayer.

Utilising the controller-free Kinect for Xbox 360 sensor, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 features an intuitive and improved movement tracking system throughout the entire game. Not only is it able to precisely point out which moves players are doing incorrectly, but now it also acts as your own personal trainer, offering users feedback on how to correctly execute their missed movements to achieve optimal workout results. Incorporating friends into your workouts is now easier than ever with an offline multiplayer mode. Mini-games feature turn-based offline game-play that can track the scores of up to four players. At the Your Shape Centre, players can view their progression and challenge friends or users across the globe, motivating them to push themselves to the max and earn bragging rights, all while burning calories. Mobile applications and Facebook integration allow users to share their progress with friends even when they’re away from their home.

Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 has launched recently, pick up your copy now. Visit the official site for more info.

City Interactive and QV Software join forces

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A new partnership has been struck between City Interactive, Polands largest video games developer as well as worldwide publisher of many popular titles and the privately owned Australian and NZ based firm QV Software. City Interactive have been responsible for such titles as Sniper Ghost Warrior and its much anticipated sequel and also have a focus on Nintendo DS titles while QVS are an independent software and accessories distributor with huge experience in the Australian and NZ market, shown with the massive marketing seen for Dead Island.

“Adding City Interactive to our established family of partners for the region is very exciting,” says Paul Elliot, the Managing Director of QV Software. “We are looking forward to achieving great things through this mutually beneficial partnership.”

“QV Software has a strong track record in the region and we are very happy having QVS on board to market and distributed our next two big releases Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 and Combat Wings: The Great Battles of World War II stated Martin Kwasnica, International Sales Director of City Interactive.

Gameloft Release Dungeon Hunter III Screenshots

With another big release due out soon, Gameloft are treating their fans with some screenshots of their upcoming Diablo-like iOS title, Dungeon Hunter III. As the name suggests, this is the third title in the series, and looks to be the most visually stunning of the three. Currently there is no exact release date, but Gameloft are hinting that the title should be available around mid-December. Until then, we always have the following screenshots to keep us excited in anticipation. Check them out below and let us know what you think. With already two well received titles released recently; it appears that Gameloft are certainly on a roll.

Ubisoft announce ‘Eeerz’ Invasion Tour, commences in London


Created by Ubisoft, the Rabbids have been transformed into amazing Vinyl Figures known simply as ‘Eeerz’ and there’s an invasion coming. Ubisoft have teamed up with artists from around the world to bring a European Custom Tour to celebrate the launch of the 28cm DIY Eeerz series.


They’re now offering everyone the chance to visit Forbidden Planet in London on the 25th of November from 5pm until late, to see with your own eyes some crazy custom Eeerz on the first stop of the European Tour! If you going along, you’ll see DIY Eeerz that have been transformed into works of art by renowned artists including Pete Fowler, Lunartik, The Felt Mistress, Phil Corbett and more. You also get the chance to customise your own Eeerz in an art workshop by Lunartik and play the newly-released Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking for Kinect. There are prizes up for grabs.

The Eeerz Invasion Tour is open to all ages and completely free to attend. I wonder what part of Europe those crazy Rabbids will invade next.

Taito’s Gardening Mama iOS On Sale For Thanksgiving

Taito Corporation is cooking up some specials just in time for Thanksgiving with their iOS version of Gardening Mama. So let’s all give thanks for Taito for their 40% slashing of Gardening Mama from $6.99 down to $3.99. But don’t stay in doors too long, make sure you head out into the garden and pick up this soon, as the sale only lasts for the first 20,000 downloads or until November 30th. Click here to purchase Gardening Mama on sale, before it is too late and Mama gets angry.

Toki Tori Is Now Available For The Playstation 3

Toki Tori, a puzzle game developed by Playlogic Games B.V. and published by Two Tribes, have announced that the game is now available in the European Playstation Store for the Playstation 3. The title will be priced at £6.29 in the United Kingdom and €7.99 for the rest of Europe. For other territories that don’t carry either currencies, then you would learn the price when you decide to purchase the game.

Toki Tori follows the character of Toki Tori through a plethora of levels over four worlds, collecting eggs as he goes. In order to pass all of your enemies, Toki Tori will have his own arsenal of different items and weapons including the infamous Telewarp, InstantRock and Slug Sucker! If you are a Playstation Plus member, then Two Tribes is offering the game with a 25% discount between the 16th and 22nd of November! A trial version is also available.

There is also a launch trailer, which you can watch below.

First episode of ‘The Making of Risen 2’ video series


Deep Silver has released the first episode of The Making of Risen 2: Dark Waters. This instalment concentrates on the topic of “Creating Worlds”. In it, Risen 2’s developer Piranha Bytes sheds some light on various topics:

– Game Designers Michael Hoge and Björn Pankratz and Story Writer Jennifer Pankratz explain why they chose the world of pirates as the topic for their latest game and why this theme fits so well with the proven Piranha Bytes’ way of storytelling and creating believable worlds

– Björn Pankratz covers the first steps of the hero in Risen 2: Dark Waters with the help of a game world map

– Lead Programmer Philipp Krause explains why Piranha Bytes used a terrain engine for the first time ever in one of their games

– and 3D Artist Sascha Henrichs explains the implications that the jungle setting entails.

Risen 2: Dark Waters will release for the Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3.

Build the Future with Anno 2070 – out today

If you’re hankering for a bit of in depth city building, then Anno 2070 is out today to fulfill all your bizarre city management cravings. Ubisosft’s latest addition to the world of  PC strategy sees the Anno series take it’s first steps into the future, and todays release comes with a new trailer extolling the virtues of the games continuous mode. Complete with a bit of epic movie trailer man voice over, it also shows off what looks to be a very stylish addition to the genre. 

Continous mode promises unlimited progression for your dream cities, whilst still providing some structure to the gameplay with three different factions to choose from. The whole game pits environmental and industrial development styles against each other, and it’s jump into the future allows players to build cities underwater as well as fill them with shiny new building styles.

Anno 2070 is out now on PC, and will recieve a full review from Capsule Computers in the future…hopefully before 2070.

Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster DLC drops on 22nd November


Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced the upcoming release of new DLC for Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster on Kinect for Xbox 360. It’s called Unidentified Furry Objects and will be available on November 22, 2011 on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for 400 Microsoft Points.

Unidentified Furry Objects is designed as a new chapter in the game’s storybook adventure where young players join Cookie Monster, Elmo and other Sesame Street characters as they explore a living storybook titled Once Upon a Monster. In the chapter, a mysterious light falls from the night sky and the monsters are visited by some very strange furry visitors.

Sega release Launch trailer for Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympics…

Mario and Sonic have returned to face off in their Olympic rivalry as of yesterday in North America. To celebrate the release, Sega have now graced us with a launch trailer to show just what fans of both series can expect. As well as the standard Olympic games, this entry features over 50 party games, with the likes of shell launching, treasure hunting, and ring collecting, where players can play as several the famed characters from both franchises. Knuckles, Wario, Peach, yep…they’re all here.

I still don’t see Mario beating Sonic in…well anything aside from a high jump competition (or a pasta eating contest), but this romp is still looking pretty entertaining and you can now find it in stores everywhere for the Nintendo Wii and 3DS.