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Look out onto the Horizon, a Forza Demo has just speeded onto the scene. Forza Horizon, the newest installment in the critically acclaimed racing serie, has a demo and now you can play around in their beautiful, race track vision of Colorado. If fast cars are your thing or if you’re just up for cruising around some of Colorado, then why not pick up the demo?
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The hotly anticipated Fable: The Journey from Lionhead Studios and Microsoft has finally arrived in stores in North America. In celebration of the game’s release, the team behind the game has released a brand new launch trailer, which you can find above. While the full game is available on shelves now, don’t forget that you can still pick up the playable demo of the game on Xbox Live if you haven’t already.
Fable: The Journey represents a major departure for the franchise, which is known for its unique blend of action role-playing mechanics, charming world, consequential world altering player decisions and humor. While Fable: The Journey may have all of these familiar Fable elements and more, it’s the perspective that represents the largest change that the game has to offer. The Journey trades in third-person hack and slash combat for a completely Kinect controlled first-person experience which allows players to cast spells and use magic to vanquish their foes and explore the world. Lionhead has gone on record to talk about how large The Journey is both as a videogame (Three tims larger than the world of Fable III), as well as symbolically for the studio and Kinect itself as a part of the Xbox experience.
There has been a great amount of discussion around Fable: The Journey since its unveiling a few years back, and it all comes to summation today. If you’ve played the demo, or if you’re picking up the full game, make sure you hop on over to our Forums and chime in with your thoughts. Fable: The Journey will be available in all non-North American territories by October 12th.
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Red Bull’s tie in game for Kinect, that was announced back in August, now has some lovely videos. Red Bull Crashed Ice will be a party game for the Kinect and by the looks of the videos, it could be quite fun. The footage is all off screen gameplay from Pax Prime; the above being for single player and the video below contains some close up footage of splitscreen gameplay.
Take-Two Interactive has released a playable demo of the upcoming NBA basketball title, NBA 2K13, which is available for Xbox Live Gold subscribers to download now. The demo allows players to relive a quarter of last year’s NBA Finals match up between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Miami Heat. To the surprise of many, the demo includes online multiplayer so you can hone your skills against real-life opponents, as well as Kinect functionality in the form of voice commands. NBA 2K13 will be on shelves shortly, arriving in stores on October 2nd. You can add the demo to your Xbox 360 download queue by following this link. While you wait for the download to finish, check out the new trailer for the game above, which details the game’s control scheme. Start practicing!
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With the release of Fable: The Journey fast approaching, its time for promotional videos. A selection of “core” gamers are briefly interviewed, before and after having played the game. Watch the video above to see them fall under Fable’s spell and praise it for being a core Kinect title.
If the video hasn’t already turned you, then you still have plenty of time to try the demo from here before its release. The full game is out in all its glory on 9th October in the US and the 12th for EU.
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Zumba, the ever popular fitness dance, has another toe tapping entry coming to Kinect by the name of Zumba Fitness Core. Below you will find new screenshots of the game in action as well as gameplay details straight from the horse’s mouth at Majesco. Zumba Fitness Core will be releasing on October 16th with a set of 40 song and dance pairings.
A demo of the game is available on the Xbox Live Marketplace now. Add it to your download queue by clicking here.
4J Studios has released a new video of the upcoming 1.8.2 update for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. The video shows off the addition that is Creative Mode, which allows for players to build whatever their heart desires with an unlimited amount of resources, and without the threat of monsters blowing it sky high at night. The update will also add NPCs, a plethora of new items, as well as a host of other features, which will bring the game closer to the current PC version of the game. The team at 4J has stated that the patch will be submitted to Microsoft Certification within a few weeks.
At Microsoft’s Spring Showcase last year, Roger Carpenter, Lead Producer on Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition stated that Kinect support for the game would indeed be patched in post-release. Since release, the game has shattered nearly every Xbox Live Arcade record in existence, recently surpassing 3.6 million downloads. Still, thus far, we have yet to hear a word from 4J, Microsoft, or Mojang on the topic of Kinect support since the game’s launch this past summer. We contacted 4J seeking comment but have yet to hear a response. For now, check out the video of the upcoming 1.8.2 update and keep your fingers crossed that we hear about the previously announced Kinect integration for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition soon.
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Dragon Ball Z Kinect is on the floor at this year’s Tokyo Game Show where IGN took video of their staff playing the game for the world to see. For the first time ever, players step into the shoes of their favorite DBZ characters, and go toe to toe in battle in first-person, using Kinect to batter your enemies with your own motions. You can check out the first video above, and then use the link below to view the second. Namco Bandai will publish Dragon Ball Z Kinect in North America on October 31st.
Source: IGN
Harley Pasternak’s Hollywood Workout is now on shelves in North America, where the Kinect based fitness game is retailing for $29.99. Published by Majesco, the game puts celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak in charge of your new workout, which is called the 5-factor program. This program requires just 25-minutes of working out, five days a week, and is the same program used by the likes of Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jessica Simpson and Robert Pattinson. Check out the launch trailer for the game above, get yourself in gear and get fit.
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Kinect Sports is easily one of the go to titles, for both party play and general fun with the Kinect. So much so, that they even released a second game in the series. Kinect Sports: Season 2 brought the total number of sports up to 13; with variations on specific parts of those sports, leading to a large number of minigames. Now with the release of Kinect Sports Ultimate Collection the demo has also arrived.
If you missed the games first time round; then now is your chance to pick them up at a bargain price, plus no disc swapping required. Still if you are unsure, then it can’t hurt to queue up the demo from here.
Source: Major Nelson
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