2012 was a huge year for our beloved dance franchise on Kinect. We used Dance Central to get in better shape, got down with tons of great DLC, launched a game that takes you teaches you the most popular dance crazes from the past and present, and more. Travel back in time with our 2012 recap for Dance Central!
January was a big month for resolutions as we started a movement to use Dance Central for both fitness and fun! We released blogs with helpful fitness and health tips, weekly dance challenges, and shared success stories from Harmonixers and the DC community! Stay tuned as we have some great content planned for January 2013!
A group of Harmonixers worked together to eat right and stay in shape with Dance Central. The participants chronicled their progress and shared fitness tips.
"Closer" by Ne-Yo was released for Dance Central 2. All previously released DLC is compatible with Dance Central 3!
Harmonix success stories were introduced - here's one from HMX Community Manager Annette Gonzalez.
Fitness Challenge Friday #2: The Unlucky 13 Challenge
"Don't Touch Me (Throw Da Water On Em)" by Busta Rhymes released for Dance Central 2.
Fitness Challenge Friday #3: Getting Ripped with Riptide
"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory released for Dance Central 2.
Fitness Challenge Friday #4: Kickin' It Old School
"Forget You" by Cee Lo Green released for Dance Central 2.
"Say Hey (I Love You)" by Michael Franti & Spearhead released for Dance Central 2.
"Milkshake" by Kelis released for Dance Central 2.
"Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock shuffled onto Dance Central 2.
We released a batch of targeted fitness playlists to help you dance off your trouble areas!
"Yeah 3x" by Chris Brown released for Dance Central 2.
Harmonix had a huge showing at PAX East with booths for Dance Central 2 and Rock Band Blitz! We published our entire schedule here on the blog.
Janet Jackson Pack 01 featuring "Escapade" and "Nasty" released for Dance Central 2.
Two Harmonixers discuss their experience with the Dance Central fitness challenge. Adam Cardoza and Jessa Brezinski tell all in personal blogs: Adam's blog, Jessa's blog
"We No Speak Americano" by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP released for Dance Central 2.
"Commander" by Kelly Rowland released for Dance Central 2.
"Give Me Everything" by Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer released for Dance Central 2.
"Spice Up Your Life" by Spice Girls released for Dance Central 2.
A digital version of Dance Central 2 was made available for download as part of Games on Demand on Xbox LIVE Marketplace! Click here for details if you're looking to get a digital copy!
"Hello Good Morning" by Diddy-Dirty Money featuring T.I. released for Dance Central 2.
"Scenario" by A Tribe Called Quest released for Dance Central 2.
"Low" by Flo Rida released for Dance Central 2.
Dance Central 3 was unveiled for the first time at E3 with a huge stage performance from Usher at the Xbox Press Briefing! We announced Dance Central 3 with a handful of awesome tracks spanning across the 70s through today as well as our first developer diary video! Relive the original announcement by clicking here.
"Replay" by Iyaz released for Dance Central 2.
"Hot in Herre" by Nelly released for Dance Central 2.
"Whine Up" by Kat Deluna featuring Elephant Man released for Dance Central 2.
"Round and Round" by Selena Gomez & The Scene released for Dance Central 2.
"La La Land" by Demi Lovato released for Dance Central 2.
"Never Say Never" by Justin Bieber released for Dance Central 2.
Dance Central 3's October released date was announced mid-summer with a new set of songs! Exciting news for DC fans everywhere!
The writers of Dance Central 3's narrative broke down the game's Story mode for fans (and make an attempt to explain how time travel works).
"Down on Me" by Jeremih featuring 50 Cent released for Dance Central 2.
"O.P.P." by Naughty By Nature released for Dance Central 2.
"Let It Rock" by Kevin Rudolf featuring Lil' Wayne released for Dance Central 2.
The Dance Central 3 dev team gave fans a behind-the-scenes peek at your favorite characters and their new looks in the game.
"Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland released for Dance Central 2.
We made a movie trailer.
Dance Central Intelligence recruited agents from across the globe to launch an investigation against TanCorps, a subsidiary of Tan Industries. With your help, DCI was able to reveal the contents of a heavily redacted memo from the organization revealing details on Project Lockstep - information critical in the fight against Dr. Tan. For your efforts, you were made an official member of Dance Central Intelligence and received your official badge.
Download the customizable DCI badge here
Dance Central 3 avatar items launched in the Xbox LIVE Marketplace! Click here to get some DC swag for your avatar!
A much anticipated piece of news was released pre-DC3 launch - the full song list!
Dance Central 3 hit stores on October 16 in North America and October 19 worldwide!
We also made our first DC3 DLC announcement, which included the reveal of "Gangnam Style"!
Dance Central Intelligence assigned a second mission for the newly recruited agents. This time, two of the organization's elite agents had gone missing, but with your help on a missing persons campaign that required you to spread the word across social accounts, Dare and MacCoy have been recovered and are now safely back at DCI Headquarters. You received a couple of audio files for imminent review...
Click here to download songs from the Dance Central 3 original soundtrack
"Twisted" and "Euphoria" by Usher released for Dance Central 3. First DC3 DLC!
"Gangnam Style" by PSY released for Dance Central 3.
Dance Central Intelligence acquires a cryptic journal written by Oblio that hid a secret message. With your participation we were able to decipher what he was trying to tell us: RASA, LIMA, IT IS TOO LATE. HIS MINIONS ARE NEAR. CANNOT STAY HIDDEN FOR LONG. DR. TAN WILL COME. FIND A WAY TO SAVE THEM ALL. Thanks to your help over the course of the intel campaign, we realized you were trustworthy enough to receive information you had been asking for all along - CHARACTER BIRTHDAYS.
Download the Dance Central 2013 calendar featuring your favorite characters and birthdays now
"Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen released for Dance Central 3.
"Paparazzi" and "Alejandro" by Lady Gaga released for Dance Central 3.
"Sorry for Party Rocking" by LMFAO released for Dance Central 3.
Thanks for dancing with us all year long! We'll see you in 2013 where we have even more great content in store. Stay tuned to facebook.com/dancecentral and @Dance_Central on Twitter for the latest updates!
