The Smurfs Dance Party getting down this July

While the Joystiq staff continues to mull over the possibility that this is a sign of the Apocalypse, please know that Ubisoft has officially unveiled The Smurfs Dance Party, which was first rumored in April. The game will allow players to "dance alongside their favorite characters and heroes from the feature film, including Smurfette, Papa Smurf, Clumsy, Brainy, Gutsy and Gargamel." Wait, Gargamel? He's the bad guy!

The Smurfs Dance Party will debut exclusively on the Wii this July and will include both "chart-topping hits" and "classic tunes" set to "20 fun dances, all created by professional choreographers and led by the legendary blue characters." Another Smurfs title -- a mini-game collection, to be precise -- is also planned for the DS.

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Stiq Figures, April 16 - 22: Digital distribution of yore edition

Welcome to Stiq Figures, where the sales data is after the break and the posts don't matter. Every week, we take a look at, uh, something - meanwhile, the previous week's Japanese hardware sales figures are posted after the jump, and a discussion of said figures takes place in our comments. It may not be conventional, but it's a time-honored Joystiq tradition.

It's funny how Nintendo getting on-board with digital distribution is such big news. Granted, Nintendo may seem a bit late to the party when compared with Microsoft and Sony, but it's not like they were exactly pioneers of the medium either.

We like to think that buying things digitally and either downloading or streaming them to our consoles is a modern invention, that it somehow classifies this era as... (Continue Reading...)


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