Genius Products, Inc. has announced a new hip-hop video game: Scratch: The Ultimate DJ, developed by 7 Studios with creative input from music legend Quincy Jones III. Scratch combines free-form DJ tricks with great rhythm game-play.

Scheduled to arrive in stores next spring, Scratch is set in distinctive urban environments and features songs from the biggest names in Hip Hop. Featuring game-play similar to top-selling rhythm games, Scratch players use a realistic turn-table controller, the Scratch Deck, created by Numark, the world’s largest manufacturer of DJ equipment, to manipulate music tracks in real-time. Players can choose from a diverse array of DJ personalities to make their way from garage DJ to scratch-master of the hottest nightclubs.

Scratch will be available on multiple next generation game systems.