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New DanceMasters DLC is not what you'd expect
If you've been playing Konami's DanceMasters since launch, you're probably ready for some new content now. Good news: Konami just announced new DLC for the Kinect dancing game, adding a much-needed infusion of fresh ... costumes. Two outfits are available on Marketplace right now, one for free and one for 160 Microsoft Points ($2). According to Konami, the costumes "change depending on the song selected." In addition, Konami announced that a demo is available for those Xbox Live Gold users who want to try out a Kinect dancing game that is not Dance Central.%Gallery-114754%
North American Kinect launch window games rounded up
When you get your shiny new Kinect, what games will you get with it? Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has provided a handy guide to the full Kinect launch lineup -- including launch day games and those arriving soon after. If you wagered there would be four sports minigame collections (Kinect Sports, Deca Sports Freedom, Game Party In Motion and MotionSports), you win! The seventeen-game lineup also includes three dancing games (Dance Central, Zumba Fitness, and DanceMasters), four exercise games (Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout, EA Sports Active 2.0, and the aforementioned Zumba Fitness), and two 'boarding games (Adrenalin Misfits and Sonic Free Riders). See the full list after the break. Major Nelson notes that the Xbox 360 launched in North America with 18 games, just one more than Kinect is launching with -- bearing out Shane Kim's comment that Microsoft would treat the Kinect launch like a new system. Or, it would, if this list didn't count the Kinect games coming out weeks after the Kinect release date as "launch games" vs. the 360's 18-game launch day. In any case, the Kinect has a lot of choices, even if they're all within a few categories.
Konami's 'DanceMasters' grooves Kinect-style
DanceMasters, Konami's Kinect dancing game, has a more Konami-like name for its European release: Dance Evolution. And very DDR-like music, if the trailer is any indication. We hope, for everyone's sake, that this works out better than the last time Konami tried to compete with a Harmonix game.
DanceMasters, a new dance game from the Dance Dance Revolution team, has dancing
DanceMasters is a new dancing game from the team responsible for the DanceDanceRevolution series. Unsurprisingly, it features dancing. The game places your face on dancers, and is able to follow your body. Although the Konami repeated that phrase multiple times, there's no mention of Kinect, or any other platform. Stay tuned for more.
