Category Archives: Mini-games

Get your hands on some of the best local co-op games on the indie scene – heck, anywhere – by buying in early to Sportsfriends.

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Rabbids Invasion is an interactive TV show powered by Kinect. Ubisoft announced it during its E3 presentation and showed kids playing along with the Rabbids, pointing their fingers to pelt a Rabbid; racing to be the first to point at an hidden object; and screaming at the screen. Platforms were not confirmed but a “very soon” release window was given. It will debut on Nickelodeon. Grab all the news from Ubisoft’s presser in our full report.

Nintendo has released a set of screenshots for its mini-game title Game & Wario, showing off various aspect. The gallery is below. Game & Wario releases in US on June 23 and in Europe on June 28.

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Kinect Party has launched and will be free through December 31. Grab it now from the Xbox Marketplace – make sure you get both the base game and full unlock. Kinect Party is the sequel to Double Fine Happy Action Theater, which both Pat and Mike hailed as an excellent use of Kinect and one of the few truly kid-friendly games available. If you own both you can unlock the original’s activities in the sequel.

Thanks, StrategyInformer.

A new batch of Nintendo downloads are fresh out of the oven, but the pickings this week are pretty slim.

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Intel: Discovered is a free downloadable Kinect title released this week which teaches you to “be a superstar”. Chris Evans (Captain America, The Avengers) teaches “the secrets of the action hero” while Victoria’s Secret model Chanel Iman will help you “get styled and learn how to work the runway” and LMFAO’s Redfoo will advise you in how to “rock the party”. The game arrived unannounced yesterday and was the subject of much delighted speculation as to AR games and tie-ins before downloads completed and this odd collection of mini-games was revealed. Still, you can make and share a poster of you and Chris Evans; that seems pretty alright.

Quirky party game Frobisher Says! will finally arrive on the US PlayStation Network five months after its European debut.

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Balloon Fight released on the NES in 1986 and is remembered by approximately six people, but it has its own NintendoLand attraction.

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Wario and his Diamond City friends are back in action through Game & Wario (working title) according to an announcement from Nintendo.

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Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training was a surprise killer app for the rebellious little DS, but the genre of games which insult you has gone largely neglected since then. Sony is taking up the slack with Smart As, a “next-gen” brain training app for Vita due in northern autumn. The XDev-developed titles boasts robust social integration so it can bag you out in front of all your friends, too. Hit the PS Blog for more details.

A cheap and cheerful downloadable title has done more to sell Mike Bowden on the future of Microsoft’s motion control than all the auto showrooms and tactical commands in the world.

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Gather your friends for communal waggling fun to take down Mario Party 9′s collection of bosses.

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Two neat little apps will be free to European Vita owners thanks to Sony’s Discovery Apps scheme.

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Sony has provided a look at what’s in store for PS Plus members during January, and the deals start this week Back to the Future: The Game – Full Series from Telltale absolutely free.

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Two games have been announced alongside Ubisoft’s new drawing tablet peripheral for the Wii.

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Frobisher Says, the indie Vita title with a deeply mystifying debut trailer, came about as a response to the Vita’s bristling array of control options.

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Tim Schafer’s first project since Brütal Legend is an all-ages Kinect title called Double Fine Happy Action Theater.

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Double Fine studio lead Tim Schafer and the Cookie Monster star in this new short for upcoming Kinect title, Once Upon A Monster.

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This new trailer for Vita title Frobisher Says can be filed under “delightful oddities”.

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Ubisoft has released gamescom trailers for three of its upcoming titles: Rayman Origins, The Adventures of Tintin, and Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking. We always get that Simple Minds song stuck in our heads when we see that Rabbids title. Watch each one below.

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