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A number of job advertisements from developer Harmonix are suggesting that the company is working on a new video game that will mix a narrative thread, explorable environments and combat, presumably set to be launched on next-generation consoles. The job opening for a narrative designer talks about a “unique m... |
5 May 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Harmonix, the developer behind the hugely successful Rock Band series and the newer Dance Central one, is set to debut its newest game at PAX East next week.
Music and rhythm games may have decreased in popularity in recent times, but Harmonix, the studio behind two of the most successful franchises in the genres, R... |
30 March 2012
15:41 GMT |
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While dance games have become very popular in the last couple of years, industry analyst Jesse Divnich believes that 2011 has seen them at their peak, and the New Year will see profits and popularity go down fast.
Dance games have become extremely profitable in the last couple of years, with lots of casual gamers ea... |
29 December 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Video game developer Harmonix, best known for its Rock Band music simulation franchise, might have been sold off by parent company Viacom earlier in the year for a very small sum but the newly independent studio says that it might get revenue of more than 100 million dollars (72 million Euro) for 2011 and record prof... |
8 November 2011
07:37 GMT |
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Rock Band and Dance Central developer Harmonix has announced that it plans to make an important announcement at the E3 trade conference, which will take place in the early days of June, presumably announcing a new project linked to its two main series.
Speaking with Industry Gamers, Greg LoPiccolo, who is a vice p... |
20 April 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Developer Harmonix has announced that artists Gwen Stefani, Fatboy Slim, Keri Hilson and Paula Abdul have licensed songs that will be available for Dance Central on the Xbox 360, allowing fans of the game to experience more dance routines to popular tracks. Here are the tracks that players will be able to download o... |
15 March 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Harmonix might have been sold by Viacom and the wider music simulation genre might have wider problems at the moment, but the developer is still interested in it while also being ready to deliver other products, possibly based on Kinect, the Microsoft-made motion-tracking system.
Speaking to gaming-oriented magazi... |
1 March 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Dance Central captured the hearts of many new Kinect owners, but it seems that its developer, Harmonix, is already thinking about the next iteration of the dance simulator, as a supposed feature list from an online survey was leaked onto the web.
Microsoft launched the Kinect motion detection peripheral at the end... |
9 February 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Two big games made especially for the Kinect, Dance Central and Kinect Sports, have both sold over 1 million copies, according to Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg.
The past few months have been extremely good for Microsoft's new Kinect peripheral, as the company sold over 8 million devices since it was releas... |
18 January 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Media firm Viacom has confirmed that it has sold Harmonix, the developer behind the very successful Rock Band franchise and the Kinect-powered Dance Central, to Columbus Nova, a strategic investment firm, with neither part saying how much was paid for the music simulation developer.
Viacom bought Harmonix back in ... |
27 December 2010
04:34 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that those who are enjoying controller free dancing on the Xbox 360 using the Kinect-powered Dance Central are able to get access to three new songs to wave around to, from artists Rihanna, Janet Jackson and Blur.
The tracks are coming today, December 21, and will introduce ev... |
21 December 2010
15:01 GMT |
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The leader of publisher Electronic Arts has suggested that the days of the music genre of video games are not over, despite the fact that the leading brands in the space have seen falling sales in the last few years, with motion tracking based dance seen as the feature that could revive them.
Speaking to Kotaku in... |
2 December 2010
06:25 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies behind the success of the Rock Band series who have ventured into Kinect gaming recently, have announced that their Dance Central game now has three new tracks available as downloadable content, allowing gamers to enjoy new songs and new dance routines based upon them.As of N... |
24 November 2010
04:37 GMT |
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The media conglomerate Viacom has announced that it plans to sell Harmonix, the company which has created the original Guitar Hero, all the main Rock Band installment and the recent Dance Central, classifying it as a “discontinued operation.”Viacom acquired Harmonix through its MTV subsidiary back in 2006... |
12 November 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially confirmed that 19 titles will be available for the Kinect motion tracking system when it is officially released during the month of November, with the line up being mostly aimed at casual gamers.Chris Lewis, who is a vice president of at Microsoft, has stated, “The line-up of games we a... |
20 October 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Dance Central, one of the most interesting titles to appear with support for Microsoft's new Kinect motion detection system for the Xbox 360, has just received its complete track list.The game, for those that don't know, will use the new Kinect system in order to detect the moves of the player, and chart th... |
14 October 2010
14:21 GMT |
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The developers of the Rock Band franchise at the Harmonix studio have said that, even after the launch of the upcoming Rock Band 3, the series still has plenty of innovation options and that the team will be working hard to make the music simulation title as close to real life as possible while also keeping the fun q... |
11 October 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Konami Digital Entertainment has announced Dance Masters, a new simulation title that will arrive exclusively on the Xbox 360 platform from Microsoft and will use the new Kinect motion tracking system, which does not use a physical controller.Kinect can track movements of the entire body and Konami will use this abil... |
1 September 2010
17:31 GMT |
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Konami Digital Entertainment has announced that is preparing a new Dance Dance Revolution titles that will arrive exclusively on the Nintendo Wii and will deliver more music and new game modes designed to make it the most attractive dancing simulation on the market.The mat will remain at the center of the gaming expe... |
1 September 2010
13:31 GMT |
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During Microsoft's event at Gamescom 2010, MTV Games and Harmonix announced a new Dance Battle game mode and another set of songs for Dance Central. Ten new tracks have been revealed to be part of Dance Central's playlist, including song by Cascada, Rihanna, Kylie Minogue or Nelly Furtado.The full list of t... |
17 August 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Comic Con might not be a place that is immediately associated with music themed games and with dancing but Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies behind the hugely successful Rock Band franchise and its various spin offs, had a panel at the 2010 edition of the fair titled “Faux Fun to Real Rock”. And t... |
28 July 2010
15:01 GMT |
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After the nominations were announced last week, a panel of industry insiders revealed the winners of the E3 Game Critics Awards, with Rage, the post apocalyptic first person shooter from id Software and Bethesda Softworks, taking three awards, for best action game, best console title and graphics. The game is set to ... |
8 July 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Harmonix, the company which works with MTV Games to create the highly successful Rock Band franchise, is now trying to revolutionize dancing with its new project Dance Central, the motion tracking powered title that was shown off at the E3 trade show working with Kinect, the peripheral that Microsoft is set to la... |
28 June 2010
15:11 GMT |
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One of the many Kinect-compatible games that were presented at the recent Microsoft E3 press conference was Dance Central. This comes as a confirmation of earlier rumors that Harmonix and MTV Games were working on a dancing game for what was then known as Project Natal. Dance Central will feature full body tracking ... |
15 June 2010
09:27 GMT |
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