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New Kinect Titles Revealed at TGS '10

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Microsoft kicked off the 2010 Tokyo Game Show with a keynote speech highlighting a ton of newly announced titles for Kinect. The best news? They are all going to be Xbox 360 exclusive, and many of them are aimed squarely at the hardcore gamer crowd that has, up to this point, seemingly been ignored by Kinect's initial offerings. None of these new titles will be available at Kinect's launch in November, but we'll see them in 2011.

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor (Capcom, From Software) - Capcom is finally returning to the Steel Battalion series. The original Steel Battalion was an original Xbox exclusive that came with a huge 40+ button controller that retailed for $200. It was fun (I still have mine!), but kind of unwieldy. SB: Heavy Armor ditches the huge controller in favor of no controller at all with Kinect. We don't know how it is going to actually play, but it certainly has our interest.

Haunt (NanaOn-Sha, Microsoft Game Studios) - Haunt is a haunted house experience aimed at families. You'll dodge traps and outwit ghosts and solve puzzles in order to solve the ultimate mystery of the house.

codename D (Grasshopper Manufacture, Microsoft Game Studios) - From the brilliant mind behind Killer 7 and No More Heroes, SUDA 51 brings codename D to Kinect. In codename D you use your body as a weapon to fight your way through an amusement park filled with monsters. Sounds awesome.

Project Draco (Grounding, Microsoft Game Studios) - Game director Yukio Futatsugi, best known for Panzer Dragoon and Phantom Dust, brings us a 3-D flying shooter featuring dragons. It won't just be about shooting and action, however, and will also utilize Kinect's voice commands to communicate with your dragon as well as using the cameras to let you nurture and care for your dragon.

Rise of Nightmares (SEGA) - Rise of Nightmares is a survival horror game from SEGA. We don't know many details yet.

Body and Brain Connection (Namco Bandai) - The famous Dr. Ryuta Kawashima (the guy in Nintendo's Brain Age games) lends his talents and insights to Namco Bandai in a brain and body training party game for Kinect. The appeal is that you'll have to use your brain and body at the same time, which sets it apart from other brain training games.

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