[bigtroyjon]

USA Today article

The game is due this fall from Majesco, perhaps best known for the Zumba Fitness and the Cooking Mama series. It's the first announced title to use the Kinect motion-sensing controller to follow an object beyond the player's own body. Sports games have gotten more realistic: Golf games use the player's real swing and Nintendo's Wii Sports Resort includes basketball shooting among its sports. In most motion games, "you are pretend playing. You are moving your arms and doing different gestures," says Majesco senior product manager Tony Chien. Here, "you are not pretending to dribble a basketball, you actually have to dribble a basketball." Players bounce the ball to the beat of the music; your visual cue is a line of basketballs that flows on a musical trail — think Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Then an icon prepares you for an upcoming basketball move you need to perform, also in time with the music. That may be a crossover from one hand to the other, a dribble between the legs, a pass fake or shot fake. Players learn to use left and right hands and look up while dribbling, skills used on the real basketball court. With three skill levels — rookie, pro and baller — the game "can keep up with you and will challenge you along the way," says Vicky Picca, the NBA's senior vice president for licensing and business affairs. "It's a completely novel and new approach to the video game category." First, players choose their favorite NBA team (all 30 are represented). Team logos and color schemes adorn the game setting. And as you play, you can unlock posters, trading cards and videos of each team's stars performing SportsCenter-worthy moves.

Not sure if it will come with a tv saving wrist strap for your basketball

[Gravijah]

will you be able to make 'em say uhh?

[Lyphen]

Please be respectful of the person in the apartment beneath you.

[snoopeasystreet]

so zumba for men?

[The_Darkest_Red]

With three skill levels — rookie, pro and baller

lol, this should be standard in all games from now on.

"Finally took down that Dark Souls boss in baller the other day..."

[Apoc87]

UGH!!! NA NA NA NAA

[Wheeliedude]

The trailer appears to show about 0.1 seconds of actual gameplay, and even then at an angle.

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

Please be respectful of the person in the apartment beneath you.

Exactly. Interesting idea, but I won't be able to play it.

[bigtroyjon]

The trailer appears to show about 0.1 seconds of actual gameplay, and even then at an angle.

Wouldn't want to spoil the E3 excitement too early!

[boingball]

Wow. I am looking forward to the Videos of this game.

And to the law suits coming afterwards for trashed living rooms. Lol.

Or perhaps it says on the box:
Requires a Kinect and a Basketball Court.

[Rapstah]

"It's a completely novel and new approach to the video game category."

It sounds like half a Zumba fitness game and half basketball. Is the combination supposed to make it novel and new?

[Banana Kid]

I can't wait to play this while standing on my Tony Hawk Ride skateboard.

[Nightz]

Please be respectful of the person in the apartment beneath you.

This is my issue. I kinda want to play it, but my downstairs neighbor would kill me.

[thekonamicode]

This will be the first game I play at E3.

[Team Klimt]

Good thing no one has carpet floors...

[methodman]

Can't wait to watch someone play this during microsoft's e3 conference.

[alphaNoid]

Please be respectful of the person in the apartment beneath you.

Nah, just never make the mistake of living below people.

[milsorgen]

Dribbling a basketball on the carpet in the living room? =/

[Neuromancer]

Giant Bomb is going to have a field day with this one.

[FINALBOSS]

If this game doesn't have the famous Nike "stomp" commercial in it...it's a huge fail.


Even though the trailer is a huge fail anyways.

[milsorgen]

I can't wait to play this while standing on my Tony Hawk Ride skateboard.

Don't forget your uDraw tablet!

[WallJump]

I can't wait for the GIFs. If they're half as funny as Star Wars: Kinect dancing ones they will still be priceless.

[Criminal Upper]

Every Kinect game is a game changer. You take the game out, and then you replace it with Witcher 2, or boot up Trials.

[chickdigger802]

So... what's the game? I can dribble a basketball on carpet without kinect or an xbox.

[BiggStankDogg]

will you be able to make 'em say uhh?

I said "uhhhhh" after reading the description, so mission accomplished...

[bigtroyjon]

So... what's the game? I can dribble a basketball on carpet without kinect or an xbox.

Reading is tough

[UraMallas]

lol, this should be standard in all games from now on. "Finally took down that Dark Souls boss in baller the other day..."

If we're going with a slang term, I think BOSS is more fitting for video games. That's just me, though.

EDIT: I just realized that might get confusing when you're beating end bosses in BOSS mode.

[Derrick01]

So... what's the game? I can dribble a basketball on carpet without kinect or an xbox.

It seems like it's trying to be an extremely lame way to teach dribbling basics instead of learning it on your own or being taught it by someone who actually knows what they're doing.

[XANDER CAGE]

I think this is a really neat idea, certainly one of the most novel uses of Kinect so far. I feel sorry for people living in apartments with tenants below them (actually I mostly feel sorry for those people), though.

[Quick]

Learn to break ankles by breaking your TV.

Cool use of Kinect. Would be annoying as hell living in a building and hearing someone dribble on top of you because of it, though.

[panama chief]

kinect can barely keep up with my kids as they run and jump. im supposed to believe it can track me AND a basketball?

[Jomjom]

So only the three people in the world who have cement inside their house instead of carpet or hardwood flooring can play this? I guess tile would work too.