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People who spend much of their time sitting on their bums playing games aren’t usually the fittest of human specimens, especially if we’re talking about the same sorts who spend their working day sat on their bums, writing about games. You know, us. Sure, we’ve played and even enjoyed the likes of Dance Dance Revolution and can stamp on buttons with expert timing that’s a little bit frightening. We’ve just never been asked to dance properly while not obscured by gloom and numbed by drink before, and the results were concerning. At least for this reviewer since his muscles are still begging for some Deep Heat. For Harmonix’s first foray outside the world of Rock Band in three years is surprisingly pleasing, invigorating, and commendable. Step up Dance Central, it seems that you are one of Kinect’s few must-have titles.

Ah, Dance Central. How we love the way you cast your “best Kinect game” spell on us by using the device to react to gameplay, rather than control it. How you do for drunken dancing what your forebears did for air guitar, turning our guilty pleasures into fun for all the family. But must you become the Apple/FIFA/Call of Duty of Kinect games? Spreading your legs with an annual release that cheapens the experience for everybody? Don’t you know that you’re destined to end up like those plastic guitar-strumming forefathers of yours?

Happy new year, everyone! Guess what Microsoft's got for you as a special 2012 welcome gift? That's right... nothing! Hardly the best way to kick off the year, offering up a big old empty space where this week's XBLA update should be, but we can only report on the material we've got to work with...

Were you lucky enough to get either Dance Central or Dance Central 2 for Christmas? Then you'll love this week's Deal Of The Week on the Xbox Marketplace - there's so much discounted DLC content for both games that your legs might just fall off by the time you've danced to all of it. Well, maybe.

Batman: Arkham City has swept to the top of the UK charts, seeing off a resurgent FIFA 12 and Sega’s Football Manager 2012 in the process.

If you've got a Kinect gathering dust in front of your telly, get ready to give it a good dusting for a pair of new demos.

Tempted by Kinect, but don’t want to splash the cash before you’ve taken it for a proper spin? Then good news – Microsoft’s taking its camera-based motion control system on the road so gamers can do precisely that.