But Where’s the Dancing Dumbledore Minigame?
Looks like Harry Potter and pals are coming to the Xbox Kinect. The trailer above shows some Wizard duels, a bit of Quidditch, troll-taunting, rail-riding, and some other junk, but let’s talk about the dead owl in the room — the ability to play as “yourself” in the game. Now, when I say “yourself” I obviously mean “a terrifying, puffy, digital representation of yourself as poorly calculated by the Kinect in which your face stays frozen in a grim rictus of death.” And that’s if you happen to be a Hogwarts age-appropriate girl or boy; if you’re, say, a 35-year-old nerd blogger with splotchy facial hair, I imagine the effect is even more terrifying. I didn’t think the Kinect could get more disturbing than the Star Wars dancing nonsense, but Harry Potter Kinect may have it beat.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.