Earn Achievements for Burning Calories

Kinect PlayFit is now available on Xbox Live in the United States. Available on the dashboard. Kinect PlayFit tracks calories burned while playing Kinect games, including support for Dance Central 2, Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 and Kinect Star Wars.

Players will be able to keep track of their personal stats over time, plus compare with others via global leaderboards. Achievements will unlock based on the calories you burn, as will Avatar awards.

According to Xbox Live’s Major Nelson, Kinect PlayFit is the first ever fitness tracking app on a video game console. It will be available in regions outside of the United States later this week.

This is just part of Microsoft’s continued initiative to promote fitness via Xbox Live, joining the announcement of a Nike Plus Xbox Live app during E3.

Andrew Goldfarb is IGN’s associate news editor. Keep up with pictures of the latest food he’s been eating by following him on Twitter or IGN.

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Zynga Reveals Matching With Friends

During its Zynga Unleashed event today, Zynga announced Matching With Friends, the fifth game in its popular With Friends series. Available now on iOS, Matching With Friends consists of matching colored tiles. Each game lasts 11 turns as players try to match three or more tiles to clear the board and reset their opponent’s opportunity to score. Players can work with tiles that their opponents have already placed to build matches cooperatively, or use different colored tiles to block their opponents’ progress.

Each game board will contain special multipliers that allow for twice or three times the amount of normal points for each match. Players can also place bombs to eliminate opponents’ pieces and will earn extra points for making matches using a bonus color assigned at the beginning of each game. Matching With Friends will also include unique social features, including in-game chat and Facebook connect.

Meanwhile, Zynga also announced the Zynga With Friends network, which will allow players across multiple devices (iOS, Facebook, Android or Zynga.com) to interact via live chat and view live social streams. Look out for more coverage of Zynga’s new social platforms in our full coverage of Zynga Unleashed later today.

Matching With Friends is available for free from the App Store and is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. An ad-free version is also available for $2.99.



Source : ign[dot]com