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Whilst skimming through my daily GamesPress update I came across a set of screenshots for Grease the video game. My initial reaction was along the lines of “huh?” Curious, I did a bit of research. Set to be released on the Wii and DS, it’s supposed to be a dance and kareoke themed game based on the songs and routines of the musical.
Honestly, I don’t really think it’s a horrible idea. Granted, the Wii and DS game look kind of stupid, reminding me more of the Drawn Together spoof of Grease than anything else, but I could actually see a game centered around honest to goodness musicals working.
People enjoy singing games. Their continued success is more than enough evidence of that. That said, most often the music is disconnected and usually no longer then your average music video. If there are longer songs, they’re generally included to appease fans of epic guitar solos.
So why not base entire games around recreating a live musical? Video games are definitely capable of the required level of cinematics to recreate theater and even just a standard kareoke game attached to Broadway music would probably be enough to satisfy music gamers who also fancy themselves fans of musical theater.
There would of course be limitations. Instruments would likely be out of the question considering the ensemble nature of conventional musicals, but really we could probably do without anyway. Besides, when you’re playing a game based on Phantom of the Opera, who wants to be in charge of the triangle any ways?
Harmonix. Activsion. One of you try this!
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
