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Oct 29

Psy’s Gangnam Style dance will be headed onto Dance Central 3 as well

If you thought that dancing to Psy’s Gangnam Style in real life wasn’t enough and you’d like to score some points for it, you might be interested to learn that Gangnam Style will be headed onto Dance Central 3. This is probably good news for Dance Central 3 gamers who might have been feeling slightly left out when Gangnam Style was announced as a DLC for Ubisoft’s Just Dance 4. No word on when exactly Dance Central 3 gamers will be able to get their hands on the dance and song, but a rough time frame of “sometime this year” has been given. Considering that we’re almost in November, we guess gamers/dancers won’t have to wait too long to get their hands on the dance. In the meantime you can always practice the dance move in real life and get ready to score some major points once it has been released for the game. Harmonix has also announced that Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” will be another dance song that will be added to the game, although how one dances to that remains to be seen.

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Oct 15

Hands-on with the first SmartGlass app, Dance Central 3’s Party Time DJ

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Since getting outed just head of Microsoft’s big reveal, Xbox 360’s SmartGlass has been under wraps. When Xbox Live VP Marc Whitten officially introduced SmartGlass soon after at E3 2012, we learned a teensy bit more — tablets and smartphones (Android, Windows Phone 8, and iOS, even) would get second-screen functionality via an upcoming free application — and got some hands-on time with it. That application has yet to launch, but Dance Central 3‘s SmartGlass functionality is already here. Well, almost here — the game becomes publicly available tomorrow, and the app won’t launch for a few weeks still — but we got our hands on Dance Central 3‘s SmartGlass companion app a bit early at a New York City review event last week.

Being the first SmartGlass application to launch has its advantages, such as setting the bar. By no means is Dance Central 3‘s SmartGlass application a thorough, necessary accompaniment (for a game that already requires Kinect, that’s probably a good choice), but it does add some neat side fun for friends waiting in the wings to get their respective grooves on. “Party Time DJ” allows friends — employing their iOS, Droid, or WP8 tablet/smartphone, via the Xbox SmartGlass app — to queue up the next song in the game’s neverending “Party Time” mode, or create a playlist. They can also queue downloadable tracks to the Xbox 360 (which thankfully requires approval on the 360 prior to purchase), or swap difficulty settings. Sadly, though the opportunity for real-time griefing presents itself rather clearly here, developer Harmonix chose not to allow song-swapping or difficulty changes mid-song. “Because it would kill them,” Harmonix rep Nick Chester told us.

Gallery: Dance Central 3 SmartGlass app