Super Swing Golf swings onto Nintendo Wii

Title: Super Swing Golf
Release Date: 27.06.08
Genre: Golfing Simulation
SRP: £39.99

Rising Star Games Announces Super Swing Golf

Rising Star Games is pleased to announce Super Swing Golf for Nintendo Wii and available from Friday, June 27th 2008.

About Super Swing Golf:
Super Swing Golf is the party golf game for virtual golfers everywhere. Using the Wii Remote, Super Swing Golf allows players to take actual golf swings on 14 unique “18 hole” fantasy golf courses. There is a multiplayer Party mode featuring games like “Darts” and “Longest Drive” designed specifically to get players together for a fun, competitive golf game in the living room. The courses include a wide array of themes and challenges with environments as diverse as a tropical island, a scorching desert and even on ice! You can accessorise and equip your character with different outfits, clubs, and balls. You can also play and earn Pang Points to spend on better items. The more you advance in the game, the more items become available!



Key Features:

• Choose from eight wacky characters each with varying skills with woods and irons
  
  
• Play in multiplayer tournaments with up to four players or choose multiplayer mini games
  
  
• Single Player Tour mode sees players compete against computer controlled rivals in matches across Pangya Island
  
  
• Play rounds on colourful fantasy courses customising the look of golfers as you go
  
  
• Successful play allows for the unlocking of new club sets, costumes, items and characters.
  
  
• Eight playable characters, various selectable caddies, an abundance of collectable costumes and equipment
  
  
• All controls are via the Wii’s remote
  
  
• Training mode included
  
  
• On-screen information describes the ground attributes, the ball’s trajectory and point of impact
  
  

New dungeon crawling hardcore RPG Baroque for Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 2

Title: Baroque
Release Date: 27.06.08
Genre: RPG
SRP: €29.99/£19.99 PS2 - €39.99/£29.99 Wii

Rising Star Games Announces Baroque

Rising Star Games is pleased to announce new dungeon crawling hardcore RPG Baroque for Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 2. Dark, addictively challenging and totally immersive, Baroque is a pure RPG experience, highly regarded by Japanese gamers and now finally scheduled to arrive in Europe! Baroque will be available on Friday, June 27th on both formats.

About Baroque
You awaken to find the world in ruins, your heart beset with unexplained guilt. A cataclysm has destroyed the cities and empires of men and disfigured the spirit of humanity. In this nightmare, it falls to you to descend a mysterious tower in search of absolution. Battle merciless foes through treacherous dungeons, scour for new items to aid you in your travels and unlock the secrets of a devastated land. You will find death in the depths, yet learn that death is not the end of the story; in the twisted world of Baroque, it is only the beginning.

Key Features

• Hardcore dungeon-crawling RPG action! With its many ever-changing levels, each teeming with perverse monsters and tormented souls, the world of Baroque is a frightening and unforgiving realm.
  
• Death is not the end - take part in a unique story progression system in which the end of your life only serves to drive the adventure forward. Each time your character dies, more secrets about the forsaken world are revealed!
  
• Deep customisation options – the player has full control over how they shape their character and how they play the game. Find and equip a vast assortment of weapons and items, some with a variety of uses. Acquire powerful stat-boosting parasites and combine them to multiply their potency. Only the resourceful will survive
  

Hellgate - London celebrates Korean Launch - best in 3 years

Flagship Studios today announced that its action role-playing game Hellgate: London has become the most successful online video game launch in Korea of the past three years with over 1 million accounts registered within the first two weeks of its open beta test. Hellgate: London is the first online game in over three years to use a monthly subscription business model.

After launching the open beta on January 15th, Hellgate: London quickly rose to the ninth most played online game, fifth most popular RPG and most popular online beta game in PC Cafes*, with over 1 million accounts. Hellgate: London was released commercially on February 22nd, and achieved record sales in its first week of presales.

“To become the most successful launch in Korea for over three years is an incredible achievement,” said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. “This milestone wouldn’t have been possible for us to achieve without the incredible support of our publishing partner, Hanbitsoft, and our dedicated community in Korea. We look forward to expanding the Hellgate universe and building upon this success in the future.”

“Flagship Studios are well aware of how the Asian market operates very differently to the Western territories” said Alex Kim, CEO of HanbitSoft, “By listening to players’ feedback and through constant updates to the game, Hellgate: London will continue to be an incredible success throughout Asia.”

Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and the action of first-person shooter titles, while offering infinite playability with dynamically generated levels, items, enemies, and events. Whether online or off, a player creates a heroic character, completes quests, and battles through innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching skill paths. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable appearances, and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create their own unique hero.

For more information please visit the official Hellgate: London site at www.hellgatelondon.com
*According to Gametrics and Game Report

Mushroom Men - The Spore Wars for Wii Hard To Find In Real Life, Easy To Find Online

Mushroom Men Hard To Find In Real Life, Easy To Find Online

Now Featuring Music Courtesy of Les Claypool


Gamecock Media Group today announced that a completely revamped Mushroom Men website is alive and thriving on the internet. The site is packed with new information about Red Fly Studio’s “Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars” for Wii and “Mushroom Men: Rise of The Fungi” for Nintendo DS, and also features original music by Les Claypool that will be used in-game.

“Getting Les Claypool involved with Mushroom Men has always been a dream scenario! Having him on board and collaborating with everyone is a really exciting time for the project,” said Kris Taylor, Co-Founder and Art Director of Red Fly Studio. “Now with the new website up and running, we hope people can really come and get a vibe for what we are creating with the Mushroom Men universe.”

In both versions of the game players are thrust into a raging war taking place between enemy factions of mushroom men. As a brave Bolete, players view the world from the entirely surreal perspective of a three inch high mushroom, transforming common household trinkets and trash into weapons and tools that wreak havoc. The game will feature rich environments we, as humans, take for granted, and an entertaining combination of exploration and combat.

MushroomMen.com is the go-to source for all the latest information about the world of boletes, morels, amanitas, and lepiotas. Sprouting from simple links; viewers will find rendered art, videos, characters, weapon systems, screenshots, gameplay footage and more. For those with ears, they’ll be treated to Les Claypool’s (of “Primus” fame, and the creator of the theme songs for South Park and Robot Chicken) exclusive mushroom-inspired character and theme music. The original tracks will play an important role in the game’s audio gameplay experience.

"When Mushroom Men was first presented to me I was coincidentally on the perpetual late fall hunt for the elusive King Bolete mushrooms which dot the West Sonoma County landscape where myself and my family dwell,” said Les Claypool. “The yearly quest for these fabulous, fungal delicacies has become a bit of a seasonal obsession for myself and my two children over the past few years. Coupled with my son's obsession with fantasy gaming, it was all I could do to get anything else done around Rancho Relaxo once he got wind of the impending Mushroom Man game and the creator's interest in having me do the soundtrack. After seeing the design material and mock-ups online, I was queried on a daily basis whether or not I had ‘talked to the Mushroom guys’ and would they be sending us a beta version to try out. I knew at once that this was an opportunity to gain massive brownie points in the eyes of my offspring, a feat that becomes more and more difficult the closer they get to adolescence. Thanks Mushroom Men."

MushroomMen.com features the latest information about Mushroom Men and will be continually updated with new content over the next several months.

New PlayStation 3 launches April 15th

Enhanced PLAYSTATION Store Launches on 15th April

Redesigned with Improved Interface for Easier Navigation New Content Available — Metal Gear Solid Online Beta Trial Launches

On 15th April, the new look PLAYSTATION Store, the online content store on PLAYSTATION Network launches; bring with it improved navigation, more functionality and a whole raft of new content.

The revamp comes in response to a survey last year which showed that many PLAYSTATION Store users wanted a better interface and easier navigation. The new design will deliver a hugely improved navigation system, much greater scope for categorisation and a dynamic new user interface.

To accompany the launch, the PLAYSTATION Store will see an exciting selection of content available from 17th April, consisting of the launch of the Metal Gear Online Premiere Beta, building up to the launch of the next chapter in one of PlayStation’s most loved franchises, Metal gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots. Also available will be Warhawk: Operation Broken Mirror, a great new addition to the hugely popular Warhawk experience and Lair: Diabolical Dragons Pack and Skyguard Upgrade pack, offering new and exciting features and functions.

There will also be a collection of trailers including the latest for GTA IV, as well as a Sega Superstars tennis demo.The PLAYSTATION Store revamp will not affect PLAYSTATION Network accounts or the virtual wallet system.ENDS

2008 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament in Berlin Germany

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH And Upper Deck Announce Upcoming '2008 Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game And Video Game World Championships' Location

Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship will be held in Europe for the first time; Host City will be Berlin, Germany

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH and Upper Deck Europe announces Amsterdam as the host city for the 2008 European Championship

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH and Upper Deck Europe, Inc. announced today that the 2008 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament will be held in Berlin, Germany on August 9-10, 2008. Setting the stage for the largest event of its kind in the world, trading card game and video game players from North America, South America, Europe, Oceania and Asia will come together in Berlin to become the world’s best Duelist.

“With Yu-Gi-Oh! continuing to grow at a phenomenal rate, we are delighted to be hosting this year’s World Championship,” offered Kunio Neo, President for Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH. “In bringing such an illustrious competition to Germany, we can perfectly illustrate just how important the series is to Konami, and look to introduce even more people to its delights in the coming year."

“Recognizing the increasing sales and demand from around the world, we are excited to have the World Championship Tournament for the first time in Europe,” said Nico Blauw, CEO of Upper Deck Europe.

Regional tournaments for the Trading Card Game are currently being held all over the world to qualify players to participate in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG National Championship Tournaments. In Europe, the National Champions and the top ranked European players are invited to compete in the 2008 European Championship, which will be held in Amsterdam in early July. Winners from the European Championship and other National Championship tournaments from around the world will then be awarded a chance to become the world’s best Duelist at the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship event in 2008. More information on dates and locations for Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Regional tournament events can be found at www.wannaduel.com.

The national tournaments for the video game will be organized in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Participants will use Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008 on Nintendo DS for intense duels. All details will be made available soon via the tournament website http://wc2008.konami-europe.net/

The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card and video games are products of strategy, where players create individual decks of cards collected from Structure Decks and Booster Packs. Two players engage in a Duel while using cards that represent powerful Monsters, magical Spells and surprising Traps. Duelists with well-constructed decks, dominating monsters, solid strategy and good fortune are the victors in the game.

With over 1 million currently active players worldwide, cards printed in nine different languages and with over 15.8 billion cards sold worldwide since its launch, the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is a global phenomenon. In Europe alone, over 2.5 billion cards have been sold since its European introduction in May 2003. The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is manufactured by Konami, and is distributed worldwide (with the exception of Asia) by Upper Deck.

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Nintendo Hits A Home Run With Mario Super Sluggers on Nintendo Wii

Nintendo Hits A Home Run With Mario Super Sluggers

Nintendo Announces Surprise Addition to Wii Lineup

The ongoing excitement over Nintendo's groundbreaking Wii system gets a surprise springtime boost with the announcement of a new game. Kicking off its semiannual media summit in San Francisco near the company's new sales and marketing offices in Redwood City, Calif., Nintendo of America today revealed plans for Mario Super Sluggers for Wii, giving baseball fans even more reason to root this season.

"Mario is truly a one-of-a-kind character; clearly fans can't get enough of him and his friends," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "We're giving Wii users brilliant new ways to enjoy him while expanding our series of active-play games."

In the same spirit as other sports-themed Mario™ games on Wii like Mario Strikers Charged and Mario Kart Wii, Mario Super Sluggers blends richly interactive baseball action with eccentric characters and elements from across the popular Mario universe. Players can swing the wireless Wii Remote™ just like a real bat or wave it toward the plate to deliver a masterful pitch, enjoying the same intuitive, easy-to-learn controls that helped make Wii Sports™ a living room hit. With Mario and his unpredictable pals filling out the roster, imagination and active-play innovation are sure to dominate the diamond in this lively title, scheduled for release later this year.

Remember that Wii features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access.

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Metal Gear Online - Open Beta in Europe confirmed

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH announced Metal Gear Online Premiere Beta for Kojima Productions' online epic
Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has announced its plans for a public beta program across Europe for its forthcoming Metal Gear Online title for PLAYSTATION®3. Konami will release Metal Gear Online Premiere Beta via the PlayStation Store from April 17th, with online tests running from April 21st through May 6th. An all-new Metal Gear title specifically designed as a multi-player online experience, Metal Gear Online will be released worldwide as part of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots on June 12th.

The beta program will offer players a unique chance to sample the innovative multi-player experience of Metal Gear Online, which emphasizes cooperative team-based play. Those downloading the beta will be invited to explore two maps – “Blood Bath” and “Groznyi Grad” – each of which requires unique strategies in order to achieve victory.

Metal Gear Online will launch as part of Guns of the Patriots in June as a Starter Pack, comprising five unique stages: “Ambush Alley,” where trenches and sandbags litter an arena built for close and medium range combat; “Blood Bath,” a two-tier battle setting; and “Groznyi Grad,” the expansive Shagohod development complex from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater which features human catapults that propel players to different areas of the environment. Rounding out the five stage set are the dusty, Middle Eastern alleyways found in Guns of the Patriots entitled “Midtown Maelstrom,” and the rooftop settings of “Urban Ultimatum.” Konami is committed to the release of additional Expansion Packs to be released throughout the year.

Up to 16 people can play simultaneously, with game worlds created using Guns of the Patriots’s incredible 3D engine. Retaining the classic stealth combat gameplay of the Metal Gear series, players are dropped in a series of war zones wherein different challenges await. Five game modes await players on stages that span the globe and the history of MGS: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture and Base and Sneaking missions. Additional information on Metal Gear Online and the beta program can be found at www.konami-mgo.com.

Frag Dolls Achieve Guinness World Record Following 24 Hours In Sin City

Guinness World Records are delighted to announce the Frag Dolls Guinness World Record achievement for the ‘Longest continuous play of a single FPS’, playing for over 24 hours at the i-33 on March 22. The video evidence has just been reviewed and we can today confirm their Guinness World Records status!

Ubisoft’s Frag Dolls Kitt, Sarin and Jam defied terrorist threat and the evils of Alvarez Cabrero for over 24 hours playing Ubisoft’s latest hit video game ‘Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2’ while gaming fans kept them on their toes through XBOX Live during the arduous feat!

Kitt said of her success: "I can't believe I'm a world record breaker! I'm brimming with pride that we've achieved this. I'd like to thank everyone who supported us, playing with us on Live and donating to Breakthrough Breast Cancer."

A video feature tracing the record attempt from start to finish is available here

The girl’s achievement will be recorded for prosperity in the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2009. Challengers to their title are welcome to apply to apply via http://gamers.guinnessworldrecords.com.

The all new Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2008 is on sale now and is bursting with new records, high score statistics and fascinating facts.

3D Art Contest Battle of the SuperModelers win

As part of our 20th Anniversary celebration, GameRecruiter is pleased to announce the debut of our online 3D art contest, Battle of the SuperModelers! This one-of-a-kind contest is designed for 3D artists in the games community, professional or student.

Here’s your chance to create an original real-time character model of a monster, creature, robot or alien that might be found in a fantasy, sci-fi or horror game and win fantastic prizes! Our winners will include a Grand Prize Winner and three finalists.

Our Grand Prize package features the Area-51 m15x high performance notebook from Alienware, accompanied by a Cintiq 12WX pressure-sensitive tablet from Wacom. Our three finalist winners will each win a Wacom Intuos 3 (6 x 8”) pressure-sensitive tablet.

All four prize packages include a selection of two copies of the following software: Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder and Autodesk Mudbox™. Each of our four winners will also receive a variety of 3D art instructional DVD’s from the acclaimed Gnomon Workshop.

All art contest entries are to be sent by e-mail. The final four winners will be judged on their final real-time model by a panel of industry judges. Fifty art entries will make it to the finals and be displayed on the GameRecruiter contest gallery page. Deadline to enter is Friday, August 15, 2008. Winners will be announced by September 15, 2008. Learn more about our contest prizes on our prizes page.

Grand Prize Package (one winner)

Our Grand Prize package features the Area-51 m15x high performance notebook from Alienware, accompanied by a Cintiq 12WX pressure-sensitive tablet from Wacom. The Grand Prize packages include a selection of two copies of the following software: Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder and Autodesk Mudbox, as well as a variety of 3D art instructional DVD’s from Gnomon Workshop.

Finalist Prize Package (three winners)

Our three Finalist winners each win a selection of two copies of the following software: Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder and Autodesk Mudbox, along with a Wacom Intuos 3 (6 x 8”) pressure-sensitive tablet. Each of our three Finalist winners will also receive a variety of 3D art instructional DVD’s from Gnomon Workshop.