Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure The best Kinect fitness game so far for younger ones Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure is one of the best games so far for younger players from age 5 to 10, and one that can be thoroughly enjoyed by the whole family. Rating by steve: 4.0 stars As I mentioned in my review of Kinect Star Wars, movie tie-in games have never been [ Read More ]
Well, ’tis the season for game publishers to start announcing games we can expect in the 2012 Christmas shopping season. The biggest announcements will probably come in a few weeks at the E3 Conference. But here are some promising games that people are talking about already. Kung Fu Superstar from new studio Kinesthetic Games looks like a pretty interesting game where you can channel your inner Bruce Lee. The game [ Read More ]
Junk Fu Sometimes the best Xbox Fitness games don’t have to be the most expensive ones. Junk Fu is a surprisingly good workout game that is fun, addictive, can provide a great workout, and at 240 Microsoft points costs less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Rating by steve: 4.0 stars It’s funny, but for months now I’ve been reviewing $50-60 Kinect games, hoping to find one that [ Read More ]
Rhythm Party Captures the spirit of the original DDR Konami has gone “back to basics” with this Xbox Marketplace downloadable game and has produced a fun, simple, and effective-as-a-workout dance game that goes back to its roots of pattern matching vs. real dance steps. Rating by steve: 4.0 stars Continuing our review of Xbox Marketplace games that make for great (and cheap) workouts, I’ve decided to review Rhythm Party by [ Read More ]
While it’s been a bit quiet lately on the Kinect Fitness game front, that’s all going to change very quickly. In the latest rumors, possibly to be announced as soon as the E3 conference in a few weeks, Microsoft is preparing a new feature on the Xbox 360 dashboard and a new wireless tracking device that will measure heart rate. Granted EA Sports Active 2 already has such a device, [ Read More ]
Star Wars Kinect The Force is Strong with This One Years of suffering through movie tie-in games have gotten me weary of the genre. I’m happy to say that Star Wars Kinect breaks the mold and delivers a game that, despite its flaws, moves the Kinect forward as an active gaming system. Rating by steve: 4.0 stars I’ll admit, after playing every movie tie-in game from Ghostbusters on the Apple [ Read More ]
UPDATE: Since I originally wrote this post, Amazon has updated their listing to say that miCoach by Adidas will be released on July 24, 2012. As always, if you pre-order from Amazon and the price drops (or rises) between now and the launch date, you’ll get the lower price. Be the first on line–this should be a good one! Happily, it looks like Adidas MiCoach is back on track, set [ Read More ]