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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced a new Harry Potter title exclusively for Kinect.

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It’s hump day, your week is half over. Read these shorts and close your Wednesday out.

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The last day of the work week is almost here. Have some shorts to get you through until then.

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Images and a new video for LEGO Harry Potter popped up on the Net today.

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Ubisoft marketing boss Murray Pannell is just a teensy bit excited about the upcoming game based on James Cameron’s Avatar. He’s even gone and mentioned he-who’s-become-a-household-name, Harry Potter, alongside Cameron’s untested opus.

“Avatar looks set to be a world-changing kind of cinema given its pedigree and elements like the 3D,” Pannell told MCV.

“It reminds me of my experience at EA, working on the original Harry Potter game – which was an incredible entertainment phenomenon.”

“Avatar has movie director James Cameron, and Potter also had one person ultimately in charge – JK Rowling, who everyone was terrified of disappointing. That can give you real focus,” he added.

Inspiring. More through the link.

Janco’s Mike Hickey has predicted that The Sims 3 could sell up to 4 million units in 2009.

Sims 2 sold an estimated 3.5 units in calendar 2004. Sims 3 releases in June.

Hickey also said he expects the upcoming Harry Potter game to sell about 3.2 million units sold-in.

More on Gama.

EA’s just predicted that a slew of sequels will form the bulk of the company’s revenue for fiscal 2010.

Madden, Need for Speed SHIFT, Bad Company 2, the next Harry Potter game and The Sims 3 were named as the those likely to be the biggest games for the firm in the next financial year by CEO John Riccitiello.

BioWare’s Dragon Age was the only original IP named in the list.

EA announced a loss of $641 million for the quarter ending December 31 today, and the loss of 1,100 jobs.

Warner’s given VG247 a flat “no comment” on the subject of a Harry Potter Lego game, which has been rumoured yet again by CVG this morning.

Our offline sources indicate there may finally be truth to the project.

A Lego Potter title’s been rumoured for years, but licensing issues prevented any go ahead. Warner owns the Lego rights and TT Games, the developer behind all the major Lego games, while EA owns the rights to make Potter games.

It’s been mooted this morning that the twain may have finally met as the last Potter film-game tie-in will release next year, meaning the way would essentially be clear for an EA-sanctioned, non-competitive Potter product to release in its wake.

And everybody involved would rather have pots of extra money than not, clearly.

More on this soon.

EA has announced its Games Convention line-up revealing that Harmonix’s Rock Band 2 will be shown for the first time.

EA reckons it’s “best ever product line up for European consumers this holiday and in 2009″ and as we’ll be able to confirm that for you when our full coverage gets under way tomorrow.

From the release:

On show in Leipzig are Europe’s best selling franchises and consumer favorites like FIFA, Need For Speed, The Sims and Harry Potter, a wide range of casual and family titles for Nintendo platforms including LITTLEST PET SHOP, Boogie SuperStar, Zubo and MONOPOLY, brand new IP like SimAnimals, Mirror’s Edge, Dead Space, Dragon Age: Origins, Battleforge, Spore, the new MMORPG Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning, and EA partner titles Left 4 Dead from Valve, Rock Band and Rock Band 2 from MTV Games/Harmonix and Crysis Warhead® from Crytek.

Never before has EA had such a diverse and powerful slate of offerings, and it’s been great to see consumer and critical response to our games,” said Jens Uwe Intat, senior EA VP.

“As more and more people come into interactive entertainment, we are ready with the best games in sports, action, casual, horror, simulation, and online. We’ll be bringing more new games to market this year than in our history, and Leipzig is a great European window to showcase those offerings for the broad range of people that love to play them.”

Full thing after the jump.

By Mike Bowden

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Motus has shown its motion-sensing Darwin 360 controller working in three videos.

The peripheral uses something the company calls Six Degrees of Freedom, which is something about total freedom as opposed to “partial.” More on that freedom of movement stuff here.

That’s not all however as there are videos showing how it all works in practise. There’s Tiger Woods 08, Lego Star Wars and Harry Potter.

There’s more through the link but being honest we’ve covered most of it. Thanks Techradar.

By Mike Bowden