COLOGNE – Ubisoft demonstrated Michael Jackson: The Experience at GamesCom 2010 both on the show floor and in the business lounge. The interactive performance-based videogame, inspired by the legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson, will include dancing and singing. The game will be available for Kinect for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 with PlayStation Move support, PSP, Nintendo’s Wii system and Nintendo DS handheld system this Christmas. The producer of the game walks us through this unique experience in this exclusive video interview.

When the party starts this October, virtual DJs and MCs throughout the universe will fire up two turntable controllers and a microphone and mix it up with Tiësto – one of electronic music’s defining artists, DJ’s and producers – in DJ Hero 2.  Having worked with the likes of Muse, Justin Timberlake, Jónsi from Sigur Rós, Flo Rida, Sean Kingston and Three 6 Mafia, performed for billions of fans at the opening ceremonies of the Athens Olympics and headlined the Coachella and Bonnaroo music festivals among others, Tiësto has earned his status as the world’s hottest DJ.  The Grammy Nominee will be spinning for a new audience as he takes to the virtual ones and twos, delivering a pair of pulse-pounding exclusive mixes and joining the ever-growing roster of playable characters, including Deadmau5, David Guetta, DJ Qbert and others.

One of the big games of E3 2010 is a sequel to the top original game of 2009. This fall, living rooms will transform into nightclubs letting budding beat chemists, singing sensations and all of their friends party together by firing up two turntable controllers and a microphone to experience their favorite music as they’ve never heard it before in Activision’s DJ Hero 2.

Want to be a rock star? Can you beat Rock Band on Expert level? Harrah's Entertainment and MTV Games are once again seeking the best Rock Band® gamers in the United States with The 2nd Annual Total Rock, Total Rewards Rock Band Competition.

Virtual Fairground (www.virtualfairground.com) and world famous DJ Ferry Corsten (www.ferrycorsten.com) have teamed up to develop Pulse (www.pulsethegame.com), a dance themed rhythm game for iPhone and PC digital distribution network Steam. On March 27th Pulse will be launched at the Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach, USA. Ferry Corsten has produced seven new music tracks exclusively for Pulse.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. announced that DJ Hero was the #1 new intellectual property by revenue in the U.S. and Europe for calendar 2009, according to The NPD Group.  According to Michael Pachter, videogame analyst for Wedbush Securities, DJ Hero sold 790,000 copies in the U.S. and a total of approximately 1.5 million copies worldwide. Activision is already working on a sequel.

We are coming to you live from SpikeTV's Video Game Awards 2009 in Los Angeles with host Jo Garcia, Playboy's 2008 Cybergirl of the Year. She's hot and our coverage will be hot so stay tuned here as we beam to you live video reports from the VGAs as we interview the top developers and, of course, celebrities on the Red Carpet, Backstage and in the Green Room. It all starts at 8pm Eastern Time.