this board needs a culling, real talk
Actually, this is the most coherent thing he's posted in a year. MTV Games/Viacom can go wherever they want for titles, and I hear Viacom has some money. Yeah, HMX is the biggest one we've heard from so far, yeah Demiurge and Backbone have been lapping at the teat of HMX's assets and pipeline for Unplugged and Green Day, but it doesn't mean that it's going to be all Rock Band, all the time.
Kinect is official:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2010-06-14-vidgame14_ST_N.htm
Games, including such gems as Kinectimals, were also announced:
•Kinectimals lets you train and play with 20 different virtual cats, including a lion, cheetah and tiger.
•Joyride, a racing game, lets players use their hands to hold an imaginary steering wheel — pull your hands toward you and push back out for an acceleration boost — and their bodies to execute jumps and tricks.
•Kinect Sports has six activities including boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, soccer and table tennis. To serve a volleyball, you mimic the real motion; in soccer, you can kick the ball or do a header.
•Kinect Adventures includes a river-raft time trial and obstacle course, playable by up to four players. On the raft, playing as a duo, you and a partner must lean one way or another to steer. Jumping helps the raft reach special areas for extra points.
•Dance Central, in development by MTV Games, brings a So You Think You Can Dance experience home.
•Star Wars characters and iconic Disney favorites will be featured in separate new games being developed at Microsoft in conjunction with LucasArts and Disney.
So, wait, Joy Ride went from being a free-to-play online, cooperative race game to a hand-waving spaz festival?
wave is still cheesy though it does feel a bit closer to the core of the functionality of natal (using your hands to do shit.) Maybe i'm poisoned at the root knowing that all of this shit is decided on with 1000s of focus groups and millions in research about what's "cool." the corporate process for coming up with the name for something naturally arrives at something that feels patronizing. So anything they choose is like pre-ruined for me.
Adding "pre-ruined" to my lexicon of clever phrases.