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Shape Up is a Ubisoft-Microsoft 'make fitness fun' game

Press-ups with an arcade machine on your back? No problem.

News by Robert Purchese Associate Editor

Updated on 9 Jun 2014

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'Oh I really want to get fit but fitness games are so boring!' I know, right? Wouldn't it be better if you could jump all over a giant piano or do press-ups with suitcases stacked on your back - heck, even an arcade cabinet on your back, or a whale?

Ubisoft's got you covered. Shape Up is a Kinect game - a partnership with Microsoft - that aims to make fitness fun. Think fitness with boss fights. You can run on trains apparently.

It's coming out in November.

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