Category Archives: Fitness

Majesco has announced Zumba Fitness has become the fastest-selling franchise “in the company’s history”, with the series moving 6 million units total across two releases.

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Ubisoft has appealed a decision the Californian court made when it denied the firm a temporary restraining order against OG International’s Get Up and Dance title. The firm’s initial claim was that dance game used Avatars and instructors with resemblances “nearly identical” to those in Just Dance. According to the US District Court Judge on the case, Charles R. Breyer, Ubisoft has not “clearly demonstrated likelihood they are substantially similar,” and the dance title is now allowed to go on sale in the US. The UK release was unaffected by the proceedings. Thanks, MCV.

Ubisoft has announced Just Dance 3 sold over 700,000 units on Wii and Xbox 360 combined in the US from November 20-26, which was Black Friday week. The Wii version of the game is up 48% yoy compared to Just Dance 2 in the US. Tony Key, Ubisoft’s sales and marketing SVP, said: “Last week was an excellent start to the holiday shopping season for Ubisoft’s dance games. The popularity of Ubisoft’s dance games continues to gain momentum as these games appeal to a wide variety of consumers because they are fun to play alone or with friends and family.”

Just Dance 3 was released on Wii and Xbox 360 in October. The PS3 version releases next week in the US and UK. Thanks, Gamasutra.

NPD has been doing a bit of math, and according to its figures for the 12 months ending October 31, the dance genre has grown 326% percent year-over-year. When compared to overall videogame sales, the later has only grown yoy by 3%. Last month, NPD noted that the dance category was up 135% when comparing October 2010 figures to the same period in 2011. Two titles which can help confirm the growth in the genre are Just Dance and Dance Central: the former is up 85% yoy in sales and the later passed the 2.5 million sales mark in August of this year. According to NPD, 8 out of every 10 players of dance games are female, the majority of which are teenagers or younger.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Majesco has announced Zumba Fitness Rush exclusively for Kinect, and it will land in stores during February 2012.

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Nintendo’s announced a Black Wii Fit Plus bundle for the UK, and it’ll be available from October 7.

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Street Fighter X Tekken producer Yoshinori Ono has thrown some light on the game’s “Pandora Mode”, which allows players to sacrifice a character in order to give the tag partner infinite EX meter before succumbing himself, which allows for a last-ditch comeback effort.

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And if Deus Ex has its way this week, it’ll be the last time.

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Sony has released a bonanza of screeshots from gamescom, so instead of you looking everywhere on the planet for them, we’ve put them all here in one lovely post. Don’t you just love us for it?

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Over 60 wrestlers will duke it out in THQ’s latest brawler.

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Zumba Fitness, the unstoppable UK seller, has shifted an amazing 3 million units worldwide.

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Ubisoft has announced its lineup of games which gamescom attendees can play before the official releases by visiting the company’s booths at the convention.

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Zumba’s made it seven straight weeks – ten weeks altogether – at the top of the UK charts. Surprise.

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We’re running out of stuff to say. Honestly. Zumba’s still top of the UK charts, but new entry Call of Juarez: The Cartel has entered in second.

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Zumba Fitness has made it five straight weeks at the top of the UK charts this morning, its been announced this morning.

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Ubisoft has detailed its Comic-Con line-up, as well as its panel offerings for next week’s event.

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Microsoft kicks-off its annual Summer of Arcade today, and it has released the schedule of offerings it’s hosting from now until July 25.

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Zumba Fitness is still top of the UK charts, Chart-Track’s announced this morning. Shocker.

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Warner Bros. has said it will fix the issues European PS3 users had with the Mortal Kombat DLC released yesterday.

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UFC: Personal Trailer is out on June 28 for PS3 and Xbox 360, and to give you an idea of what to expect, THQ has released a video featuring fighter Rashad Evans talking about the game, and showing off his virtual in-game moves. UFC: Personal Trainer will come with Move and Kinect support, and will also be released for Wii in July. Thanks, Joystiq.

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