Spotlight
Too cool for school?
VideoDance Central 2 dance floor footage
Kinect sequel boogies in next week.
VideoDance Central 2 cel-shaded cinematic
Kinect sequel out later this year.
Key events
20th January 2012
22nd November 2011
24th October 2011
7th July 2011
6th June 2011
ESRB outs Xbox One Dance Central: Spotlight
UPDATE: Announced at E3.
UPDATE: Harmonix has announced Dance Central: Spotlight at E3. It's a digital-only (download only) game that's coming this September. Harmonix boss Alex Rigopulos said the game had new technology that gets music tracks into the game faster than ever before. This should mean more, newer content and more often.
Burn calories with Xbox 360 dashboard app Kinect PlayFit and earn Achievements
Boost your Gamerscore and gobble up Avatar Awards.
Calorie-counting Xbox 360 app Kinect PlayFit will allow you to earn Achievements and Avatar Awards while you play.
Harmonix announces Dance Central 2 Dance*Cam
Free app lets you create personalised music videos.
Harmonix has unveiled Dance Central 2 Dance*Cam, a free app for iOS and Android devices that lets you create personalised music videos.
Available in the US now and due out in Europe soon, that app lets you record snippets of your Dance Central routines, which you can then turn into mini music videos and post to the web for all to see.
Challenge a friend to a dance battle via Facebook, and a mash-up video of both of your attempts will be created and reposted to the networking site for all your chums to guffaw at.
Dance Central 2 gets Lady Gaga DLC
Rihanna tracks also due.
Lady Gaga stars in the next round of Dance Central 2 DLC, publisher Microsoft has announced.
Harmonix developing "multiple new music games"
That aren't Dance Central, Rock Band.
There are "multiple new music games" in development at Harmonix that "won't resemble" either Rock Band or Dance Central.
Microsoft puts all Dance Central DLC on sale
Ballroom blitz.
All existing Dance Central DLC goes on sale from today, to celebrate the recent arrival of the Kinect rug-cutter's sequel.
UK Top 40: Arkham City soars into first place
Ratchet lands 24th, Dance Central 2 is 40th.
Batman: Arkham City has glided to the top spot in this week's UK all-formats chart.
Too cool for school?
Dance Central was the trendy poster child for Kinect when it launched with deafening fanfare last year. As hundreds of dancers performed in unison in New York's Time Square - in what must rank as the most unrepresentative demonstration of a single-player game in history - millions of hypnotised consumers bought into Microsoft's controller-free dream.
But Harmonix' first stab at the dance genre gave Microsoft much more than credibility with the cool kids. It gave Kinect an excellent launch game that showed off its exciting new technology with fun and flair.
Now, a year on, the inevitable sequel arrives with the back-of-the-box promise of "more moves, more songs, more fun". And it arrives to discover it now has some genuine competition on the Kinect dance floor, in the form of Just Dance 3.
VideoDance Central 2 dance floor footage
Kinect sequel boogies in next week.
Kinect sequel boogies in next week.
New book predicts a healthy future.
Despite Guitar Hero's bubble bursting earlier this year, the music genre is in great shape and looks set for major growth over the next few years, according to a new book on the genre out this week.
Charge for importing Dance Central tunes
400 Points to move tracks into sequel.
It will cost you 400 Microsoft Points to import tracks from the first Dance Central disc into the forthcoming sequel, publisher Microsoft has confirmed.
Halo, Gears, Forza join Eurogamer Expo
Gunstringer, Dance Central, Kinect Sports.
Platform-holder Microsoft is bringing this autumn's biggest Xbox 360 exclusives to the Eurogamer Expo 2011.
Dance Central 2 tracklist expands
Daft Punk, Gnarls Barkley, Gaga confirmed.
Harmonix has announced 13 more tracks for Dance Central 2, including numbers from Daft Punk, Gnarls Barkley and Lady Gaga.
VideoDance Central 2 cel-shaded cinematic
Kinect sequel out later this year.
Kinect sequel out later this year.
Let's face the music and dance.
Introduction
Harmonix: independence is "terrific"
Rock Band dev details flurry of activity.
Harmonix's split from Viacom earlier this year has rejuvenated the studio and inspired a flurry of creativity, the developer has told Eurogamer.
Dance Central dev confirms Vidrhythm
"It will be awesome," says Harmonix.
Dance Central developer Harmonix has confirmed it is working on a project called Vidrhythm.
Harmonix communications director John Drake wouldn't say what, exactly, Vidrhythm is, but promised Giant Bomb "it will be awesome".
Harmonix is currently working on Kinect-exclusive Dance Central 2, due out at the end of the year.
Simultaneous multiplayer at last.
Harmonix came on stage at the Xbox Media Briefing today to unveil Dance Central 2 for Xbox 360 Kinect.
It has one important feature that was missing from its otherwise excellent predecessor - simultaneous dancing for two players.
The game also features voice control. All songs from the first Dance Central can be imported into Dance Central 2, giving the game over 100 songs from launch.
