Two Turntables and a Microphone, Freestyle Gameplay and Host of Chart-Topping Hits From World’s Hottest Artists Highlight Sequel to #1 New Videogame IP of 2009
Soundtrack to Spin Beats From Dr. Dre, The Chemical Brothers, Kanye West, Metallica, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Over 85 Others
Award Winning Producer Deadmau5 Joining the Crew as In-Game Playable Character
Free Download of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” Mixed With Deadmau5’s “Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff” Offered to Celebrate Announcement
London, UK – 8th June, 2010 – This autumn, living rooms will transform into nightclubs letting budding beat chemists, singing sensations and all of their friends party together by firing up two turntable controllers and a microphone to experience their favourite music as they’ve never heard it before in Activision Publishing Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) DJ Hero® 2 – the follow-up to the #1 new videogame intellectual property of 2009, DJ Hero®. Picking up where the award-winning DJ Hero soundtrack left off, DJ Hero 2 spins together the hottest tracks blazing up the charts and legendary club anthems from the biggest artists in pop, dance and hip hop including Dr. Dre, The Chemical Brothers, Kanye West, Metallica, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and over 85 others. Fuelling the party will be a host of all-new social multiplayer game modes and innovative freestyle gameplay giving virtual DJ’s the ability to crossfade, scratch and sample in over 70 speaker-blowing mashups from the hottest DJ’s and Producers around the world, including Deadmau5 – part of dance music’s elite – who will be starring as an in-game playable character.
To celebrate the announcement, DJ Hero owners and all of their friends will have the opportunity to download, spin, scratch and battle a mix from DJ Hero 2 as downloadable content. The mix features the sultry sounds of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance”, mixed With the blistering beats of Deadmau5’s “Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff.” The mix will be available for free from 8-14th June on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®Store for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system.
Trauma Team (Wii) – 9/8/8/8
Spectrobes: Origins (Wii) – 8/8/8/7
Clash of the Titans (PS3/360) – 8/7/8/6
Tamagotchi no Pichi Pichi Omisecchi (DS) – 8/7/6/7
Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo: Machiteba Tengoku! Makereba Jigoku! Ryoutsuryuu Ikkakusenkin Daisakusen! (DS) – 7/7/6/7
This is the only image available at the moment, but I’ll update this post if additional scans come in.
Just in case you were wondering, this is the Square Enix title that was announced for Japan recently.
Deep Silver, the games label of Koch Media, a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products, has today announced an exclusive agreement with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) to produce a multi-territory console game based on hit talent show The X Factor.
With versions for the Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Nintendo WiiTM and PlayStation®3, the game will be available from Q4 2010 in multiple languages in numerous European territories where the show is made including the UK, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
“I will tell you, I’ve seen it; it’s cool…they’ve [Nintendo] got a lot to say at E3, and I want to be careful to not accidentally transgress an NDA.” – EA Chief Executive John Riccitiello
This must mean EA is one of the few developers that have had fairly extensive time to try out the 3DS. Believe it or not, EA released the most games for the DS when the system launched in North America. I wonder if the same thing will happen with the 3DS.
It has been said for quite some time that Nintendo will be unveiling their next handheld, the 3DS, along with the system’s first round of software at E3 next week. Obviously the Big N has some titles in development, but what about third-parties? Well, according to Game Informer, other companies have been told that they can announce their projects once E3 begins.
The thing is, Nintendo’s conference will be taking place next Tuesday even though the trade show officially begins one day prior. So will third-parties reveal their games on Monday? Or will they wait until Nintendo’s conference is over?
