Ubisoft has announced Just Dance Kids 2, a child-friendly version of its popular dancing game Just Dance 2. The game will be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. As expected, the game will utilize each system’s motion controller; the 360′s Kinect, the PS3′s Move, and the Wii’s Wii Remote.

Just Dance Kids 2 will feature more than 40 songs, including “Love Me,” “Whip My Hair,” “Just The Way You Are,” and popular songs from kids’ favorite TV shows and movies, such as “Burnin’ Up,” “Barbara Ann,” “Shake Your Groove Thing,” and the YouTube hit song, “I Am A Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song).” The game will also feature updated remixes of children’s song standards like “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” and “The Hokey Pokey”. The game will include lyrics in multiple languages.

“Just Dance Kids 2 provides families and kids of all ages with exciting new features building upon those elements that first made the game a success,” said Tony Key, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Ubisoft North America. “For the first time, Just Dance Kids 2 will be available on all three motion control platforms, making it a must-have family title. The game will get kids active and moving while bringing the entire family together, laughing and dancing in their living rooms.”

Just Dance Kids 2 will be released on multiple platforms 25th October, 2011.

One of the best trivia games ever released, You Don’t Know Jack, finally returns, and will be released this holiday season on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and WiiWare, as well as the Nintendo DS.

The pioneer of the interactive game show format, YOU DON’T KNOW JACK combines the social dynamics of classic board games with the entertaining story arcs of great television game shows. Returning with all-new questions and classic features such as Screw Your NeighborTM and commercial parodies, the homecoming of YOU DON’T KNOW JACK is sure to thrill excited fans as well as launch a new generation of devoted players.

You Don’t Know Jack was best known for taking a dry game genre – trivia – and infusing with off-the-wall attitude and television production values. Let us know how amped you are for the return of this classic.

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Electronic Arts showed off their user creation tool game, Create, at the Tokyo Game Show.

A lot of Atari 2600 gamers remember this title as “the game with roaming eyes and bats”. Haunted House, the classic Atari game, will be making a comeback on the Wii, Xbox Live Arcade and PC, updated for 2010.

According to an email from Atari:

Haunted House 1.0 became an instant classic when it hit the market in the 80’s. Teens and young adults were glued to their TV sets, with joystick in hand, as wondering eyes tried to survive Graves Mansion. It was the first survivor, search and escape, game that started a gaming genre explosion gamers thrive on today.

30 years later, Atari has given Haunted House a modern gameplay update mixed with the proven fun factor and suspense of the original blockbuster game. This classic game has been remade for a new generation authentic replication of arcade gameplay, rich 3D environments, interactive objects, dynamic storylines, and new characters. Just cool is the re-imagination? Check out these 5 new game screens! We line them up with the original Haunted House gameplay. The graphics are an upgrade, but the key game icons are still there!

Screenshots and gameplay trailer to follow after the break.

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Electronic Arts has announced Create, a puzzle-solving game that many have incorrectly labelled a “LittleBigPlanet clone”. Rather, it’s more in line with Sierra’s old The Incredible Machine titles in which you solve Rube Goldberg-like contraptions and create your own levels.

According to the press release:

The more players explore the game, solve level-based challenges, and customize their world, the more rewards will be unlocked. Creativity will be unleashed as players design environments with easy-to-use brushes and tools, including textures, props and animating objects that bring the scene to life.

Create will be released for the PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 in November 2010, and will utilize both the Wii remote and PlayStation Move.

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