Some of you may have missed the Kinect Tour when it wasat Macy’s in Manhattan the last two days, well, it’ll be in the South Street Seaport again later this week, as well as other locations on the East Coast and the West Coast. It’s currently at the Mall of America as well.

East Coast:

• July 17–18 Manhattan, NY Macy’s
• July 20–22 East Falmouth, MA Barnstable County Fair
• July 24–25 Manhattan, NY Seaport-Lower Manhattan Entertainment Area
• July 28–Aug. 1 Washington, DC Six Flags America
• Aug. 4–6 Canton, OH Football Hall of Fame – Rib Burnoff
• Aug. 7–8 Canton, OH Football Hall of Fame Festival Weekend
• Aug. 11–15 Chicago, IL Air Show/Navy Pier
• Aug. 19–21 Detroit, MI Woodward Dream Cruise – Auto Festival
• Aug. 26–30 St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair
• Aug. 30–Oct. 24 Tampa, FL Westfield Citrus Park Shopping Mall
• Sept. 3–6 Indianapolis, IN Rib America Festival
• Sept. 10–13 Nashville, TN Tennessee State Fair
• Sept. 15–16 Atlanta, GA Atlantic Station – Entertainment Plaza
• Sept. 18–19 Atlanta, GA Atlanta Arts Festival
• Sept. 23–26 Charlotte, NC Festival in the Park
• Oct. 1–2 Orlando, FL Disney Wine and Dine Marathon
• Oct. 8–10 Valdosta, GA Wild Adventures Theme Park
• Oct. 14–17 Dallas, TX Texas State Fair
• Oct. 21–24 Shreveport, LA Louisiana State Fair

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Cooking Academy, the popular cooking sim, will be coming to the Apple mobile devices, including the iPhone, the iPod Touch and the iPad, and is available right now on iTunes for a mere $1.99.

The Cooking Mama-style PC game has been released in over 20 countries and translated into ten languages.

From Eggrolls to Pancakes, from Ravioli to Creme Brulee, it’s up to you to prepare over 50 different recipes! Learn interesting trivia about food while mastering your skills in the kitchen. Slice, dice, knead, fold, and fry using the touch screen! Pour, flip, and grate using the accelerometer!

The new adaptation of the game will include the following:

• Over 50 Unique Recipes
• 5 Courses to Master: Appetizers, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert
• Over 35 Different Mini-Games
• 8 Trophies with 4 different rankings

The minigames from the PC version are perfectly suited to the touch screen of the Apple devices, as well as the built-in accelerometer.

So, feel free to chop vegetables, grill steaks and knead bread as you try to get a perfect score in your latest masterpiece dishes.

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Microsoft has announced that the Xbox Live PrimeTime show 1 Vs. 100 has been canceled, and there will be no third season.

According to Microsoft Game Studios GM Dave McCarthy:

When we started on this journey, we knew we were creating an entirely new genre of entertainment that would be a continually evolving concept. We’re very proud of the 1 vs. 100 team and their accomplishments, and are excited to apply what we’ve learned to future programming.

The game started hot, with 114,000 simultaneous users, but interest waned, and the game lost advertiser support. The game was the first – and ultimately only – “PrimeTime” Xbox Live game. The best players were issued prizes of Microsoft points.

How disappointed are you in the cancellation of 1 Vs. 100? Let us know.

Google is getting ready to insinuate itself into the social games market with its new brand Google Games, which will include major titles like Farmville and Mafia Wars.

Recently, Google has been investing somewhere between $100M and $200M in Zynga, after having raised $500M in venture capital. When Google Games launches late this year, Zynga will be a major part of its debut.

According to TechCrunch:

Zynga will be the cornerstone of a new Google Games to launch later this year, say multiple sources. Not only will Zynga’s games give Google Games a solid base of social games to build on, but it will also give Google the beginning of a true social graph as users log into Google to play the games.

According to the site, while Google’s investment in Zynga was completed, the actual partnership is still being worked on between the companies.

Google desperately needs this business arrangement to work if Google Games is to succeed. Aside from the stunning array of games Zynga owns, such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, Cafe World and Fishville, Zynga also is the largest customer Paypal services; Google would love to have Zynga going through Google Checkout instead. Zynga is projecting $1B in revenue in fiscal 2011.

We’ll stay on this news as it happens.

Good news for fans of Professor Layton – the third game in the series, Professor Layon and the Unwound Future, will be hitting North America on September 12, a few days earlier than the previous September 20 date.

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future places the professor and his trusted apprentice at the center of a spellbinding adventure after they receive a strange letter sent from 10 years in the future. Players must wind their way through more than 165 mind-bending puzzles as they decipher clues and strive to unlock a time-twisting mystery that threatens to plunge London into chaos.

Unwound Future has already been released in Japan a while ago – how much did you enjoy Curious Village and Diabolical Box? Let us know.

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