Ubisoft will release Just Dance: Disney Party in October. The game will be available for Kinect for Xbox 360, in which up to four players can enjoy the dancing. The game will be available for purchase online and at retail nationwide, and will include music from Disney movies such as Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Tangled, Lilo and Stitch, and The Jungle Book. Music from Disney Channel shows such as Shake it up, A.N.T. Farm, Jessie, Phineas and Ferb, and Good Luck Charlie, is also included. Just Dance: Disney also includes graphics from the films and the television shows.
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COMMENTARY: Disney’s Monsters U Sure to Scare Up Sales
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