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Originally Posted by wraggster

Konami has lifted the lid on its new Kinect music game, Boom Boom Dance, currently in development for Xbox Live Arcade.
As reported on Gamasutra, it's a dance game with a difference. Rather than following prescribed on-screen routines, you'll freestyle your way through the tracks ensuring you hit markers in time with the music.
Slap your eyes on the trailer below for a closer look.
This is the publisher's second attempt at a Kinect dancing game, following last year's underwhelming

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Originally Posted by wraggster

A closed beta for Blizzard's long-awaited action RPG sequel Diablo 3 has just gone live, the developer has announced.
The first wave of invitations are in the process of being sent out, with more participants to be added later on in the test.
Should you be lucky enough to get the nod, you'll be able to play through part of the game's first act as any of the game's five classes - barbarian, witch doctor, monk, demon hunter or wizard. You can also go toe-to-toe with the Skeleton King,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

A trio of fresh songs awaits your bouncing booty in Dance Central. Harmonix has made available three new songs at three bucks a pop each today: "Don't Cha" by the Pussycat Dolls (featuring Busta Rhymes), "Tempted to Touch" by Rupee and "The Way I Are" by Timbaland (featuring Keri Hilson and D.O.E.).

Of course, being a blog that prides itself on masterful use of the English language, we're trying our best to ignore the title of that last song.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Team Ninja pulled an Apple-style "one more thing" at its pre-TGS party, announcingDead or Alive 5 at the last minute and showing an early trailer. At that event, studio head Yosuke Hayashi called DOA 5 a "fighting entertainment" game, something distinct from other fighting games.

Later, in an interview at Tecmo's TGS booth, I asked Hayashi to clear up that terminology. The early generation

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Originally Posted by wraggster

When Mad Catz re-releases Rock Band 3 this holiday, it'll be acting as sole financier on the Xbox 360-only publishing deal. "They're actually doing the retail distribution as well as marketing support, etc. They're acting as de facto publisher for the title," Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos explained to me in an interview session late last week at the Tokyo Game Show.

That makes

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