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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

A New Pokémon Adventure with Pokémon Mystery Dungeon - Explorers Of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon - Explorers Of Darkness!

Pokémon fans get ready to rejoice and dust off that explorer hat as Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Darkness hit stores across Europe very soon! Having sold over 1.5 million copies globally following their launches in Japan and the US, this epic adventure, based in a world of mystery full of friends, enemies and hidden treasures, will give players the chance to live the life of a Pokémon. With the ability to communicate with friends via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, the Nintendo DS Wireless Communication, or by sharing passwords, players will never be completely lost, no matter how deep the Dungeon may be. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Darkness launch across Europe on 4th July 2008.

With the first titles of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series selling over 1 million copies across Europe, Pokémon fans will not want to miss this next instalment. Once again heading into a world completely populated by Pokémon, players take a Personality Quiz to determine which Pokémon they will become. Will fans become their favourite Pokémon from the 16 potential Pokémon alter egos, including four Pokémon from Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl, available? Players must also choose a Partner Pokémon to support them through the rollercoaster adventure ahead as their trusty sidekick. Accompanied by their loyal friend in this strange world, players embark on an epic journey through limitless and randomly generated dungeons, uncovering mystery after mystery to find out why they’ve become a Pokémon.

The unpredictability in these titles is not limited to the Mystery Dungeons as Pokémon fans soon find out that the undiscovered treasures hidden in the deepest and darkest Dungeons are not the only secrets in this world! As players search and battle Pokémon in the dungeons, they discover that a Pokémon has travelled back in time to steal the precious Time Gears hidden in the farthest corners of this world. It is up to the player to build an Exploration Team brave enough to take on this enemy and prevent Time from stopping and the whole world plunging into Darkness!

As players settle into their new Pokémon form, their Partner Pokémon will urge them to join Wigglytuff’s Guild to create an Exploration Team. Once initiated into the Guild the newly formed team is allowed to run simple errands, but very soon the Exploration Team will head out on grander adventures, seeking lost items and capturing wanted outlaws. At the Guild, players will be well looked after by a host of Pokémon who are always ready to help players with their adventure!

Players take on the responsibility of Team leader as they enter the dungeons, collecting items and challenging enemy Pokémon standing in their way. As the game progresses, victory will sometimes see fans able to invite the defeated Pokémon into their team. Also, a useful new option in these Pokémon titles is now available to those who faint in the Dungeons. They are able to send out an SOS mail to friends via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection or the Nintendo DS wireless function or as a password!

Choosing the Friend Rescue option allows any player who is defeated in a dungeon to issue an SOS mail to friends or other Exploration Teams, calling for them to enter that dungeon and make a rescue attempt. If the rescue attempt is a success, the defeated Exploration Team will not lose any money or items and continue the exploration from where they fainted. Along with the Friend Rescue requests, players can also access Wonder Mail to share dungeon missions and view any requests for advice from other players. Fans can also swap items in Trade Items and even trade team members in Trade Team.

So prepare for a summer full of mystery and epic adventures as Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Darkness launch across Europe on 4th July 2008.

Check out Pokémon Snap already available on Virtual Console and watch out for Pokémon Puzzle League which will be arriving soon. These Nintendo 64 classics make themselves available on Virtual Console for 1000 Wii Points and are perfect to keep for yourself or to give as a gift to your friends!

Atari's classic warlords now live on xbox live arcade

Defend and Destroy in Atari's Arcade Classic 'Warlords' Now Live on Xbox LIVE Arcade -

Battle with friends, and experience the competitive spirit of arcade games with Warlords, a multiplayer game where participants must knock other kings out of their castles while keeping their own king protected. Players use a shield to defend their fortress and launch a flaming ball to break down the other players’ forts. Up to four friends can join in the action, and The Evo mode allows players to import their own pictures to their castles.

Developed by Stainless Games, Warlords is available worldwide (with the exception of Japan and Korea) for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB.

Latest ChartTrack weekly UK games charts

All formats

(Full price) Week ending 24 May 2008

1 GRAND THEFT AUTO IV ROCKSTAR
2 AGE OF CONAN: HYBORIAN ADVENTURES EIDOS
3 HAZE UBISOFT -
4 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES SEGA
5 ROCK BAND EA GAMES
6 MARIO KART WII NINTENDO
7 FIFA 08 EA SPORTS
8 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2008 KONAMI
9 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK REDOCTANE
10 IRON MAN: THE OFFICIAL VIDEOGAME SEGA
11 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION
12 SEGA SUPERSTARS TENNIS SEGA
13 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2: WORK THIS OUT! DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
14 UEFA EURO 2008 AUSTRIA-SWITZERLAND EA SPORTS
15 COOKING MAMA 2 505 GAMES
16 FOOTBALL MANAGER 2008 SEGA
17 BOOM BLOX EA GAMES
18 MARIO KART DS NINTENDO
19 LEGO STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA LUCASARTS
20 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. NINTENDO

Introducing Spore Creature Stage on Mac

The Spore Team is proud to present the Creature Stage, the second stage in the Spore universe. You begin Creature Stage as a simple organism which has just sprouted legs and wandered onto land for the first time. This stage takes place on a 3-D world filled with lush plant life and life forms of all shapes and sizes.

Gather DNA points as you interact with other creatures either socially or aggressively. Collect new parts, then use the Creature Creator to spend your DNA and expand your creature’s abilities. Discover countless new species as you explore your strange new world, all of them created by other players.

Depending on how you played Cell Stage, your creature will begin Creature Stage with one of three super powers at its disposal. It’s a race of the species to become the first sentient creature on your planet!

Vicarious Visions Releases First Guitar Hero - On Tour Developer Diary

Karthik Bala, CEO of Vicarious Visions, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Guitar Hero: On Tour Guitar Grip for Nintendo DS

My name is Karthik Bala, CEO of Vicarious Visions. We’re the development team behind the upcoming release of “Guitar Hero: On Tour” - the first ever Guitar Hero game for Nintendo DS. Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be talking about the rollercoaster ride we’ve been on this past year in the development of the game. It was a very unusual project to work on and we wanted to share some of our experiences with you.

The game actually started out over a year ago as an idea that some of our handheld guys were batting. The question was, “would it even be possible to bring the Guitar Hero experience to portable form?” That question quickly led to the major aesthetic challenge we needed to solve, “How do you recreate the essence of Guitar Hero for a portable without making everyone carry around a full size plastic guitar?”

We all thought it was crazy… and so did the guys at Activision and Red Octane. But we wanted to give it a try as a research project. Worst case, it wouldn’t work and we would learn a bunch of stuff and we move on. :)

To Activision/Red Octane’s credit, they gave us the breathing room to experiment for a few months. The team built a *lot* of prototypes. Some were ridiculous… others a total disaster. But a few were promising. We’ll be taking you through the prototype process in the next couple of weeks.

What became evident was that we were NOT going to recreate the exact same Guitar Hero game as console in portable form. Why bother? Having a full size guitar for a handheld makes no sense. So we weren’t going to do that. Maybe we wouldn’t even have a guitar at all…

I still remember the day when some of the guys were standing in front of my office with giant grins on their faces. I knew these guys were up to no good. :) That’s when they showed me a “Frankensteined” GBA cartridge with exposed wiring, switches and electronics plugged into a DS. The game prototype had a note highway, with the peripheral activating the gems on screen.

It was a breakthrough. We’ve never released a picture of the original device we built. Here it is:

Yes, it had 3 buttons. But it proved the idea. We took it to Red Octane and their hardware guys (who are really friggin’ smart) went forward fleshing out the design.

There were a lot of challenges on the project – the user interface, peripheral design, graphical fidelity, audio compression and quality, storage space, multiplayer and more. In the coming weeks, you’ll meet the team and how they tackled these problems. It was rough sailing on this project, but we had a determined team of core gamers/developers who had their minds set on one goal: Creating a unique portable music/rhythm game that uses the Guitar Hero mechanics and aesthetics.

Pacific Storm - Allies patch 1.52 available for download

In cooperation with Buka Entertainment and Lesta Studio, cdv Software Entertainment USA today released a new patch for their WWII title, Pacific Storm: Allies. The new patch, which brings the retail version of the hybrid RTS/strategy/action game to 1.52, includes fixes for various crashes and minor performance issues. For a full list of fixes included in this patch, please visit the game's official North American Web site at
http://pacificstormallies.cdvusa.com.

The patch may be downloaded from pacificstormallies.cdvusa.com/

Pacific Storm: Allies is the latest title in the Pacific Storm series of WWII Pacific theater games which combine real-time strategy, resource management and exciting, in-your-face combat action. In Pacific Storm: Allies, players jump into the thick of battle, playing as the United States, Japan, and a new playable nation - the United Kingdom. Allied nations, including the Netherlands, Germany and Russia, offer a new level of diplomacy and resource management to the game. An updated graphics engine brings to life new aircraft, naval ships and landscapes, showcasing them in lush, vivid detail.

As with the original Pacific Storm: Allies offers something for everyone - armchair admirals can take command of massive fleets from a sweeping strategic perspective, while the action fan can jump into the cockpit to battle it out in the skies, or man deck guns to turn enemy ships into smoking hulks.

My Baby Boy/Girl new trailer for Nintendo DS

My Baby Boy/Girl

www.my-baby-boy.com
www.my-baby-girl.com

In this lovely trailer you will discover and be touched by the interactive album of “My Baby”! Discover all the different steps of his life, and all beautiful moments you shared with
him!

Just check out all the interaction you can have with your Baby! With your voice, the stylus…

Just a few weeks left to wait...

before you could take care of your own baby!

JUNE 2008 on Nintendo DS

Combat Mission Shock Force - Marines officially announced

Battlefront.com has now officially announced Combat Mission Shock Force - Marines, the first expansion to Combat Mission Shock Force, one of the most detailed and sophisticated tactical ground combat simulations available.

Shock Force - Marines is the first of several planned expansions of the Combat Mission contemporary warfare setting.

This, the first Module, adds a significant number of new formations, units, weapons, equipment and vehicles for both the US and Syrian sides, as well as brand new missions, maps and a campaign. General game engine improvements (such as Tactical Artificial Intelligence improvements, tweaking cover values and so on) are included as well, although they are also available to all Shock Force customers. This ensures that everybody plays by the same rules and experiences the same basic gameplay.

More information about how Modules work and about Shock Force - Marines in general can be found at the official web page

So what does the Marines Module include?

New TO&E

• Marines Infantry Battalion
• Marines Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (LAV)
• Marines Tank Battalion
• Marines Assault Amphibian Company (AAV)
• Marines Engineer Battalion
• Syrian Airborne Battalion
• Syrian Mechanized Airborne Company

New Weapons

• M32 Multiple Grenade Launcher
• Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW)
• M72A7 Light Anti-Tank Weapon System (LAW)
• M40A3 Sniper Rifle
• M16A4 rifle
• M16A4 rifle w/M203 Grenade Launcher

New Vehicles
• Marine M1A1 Abrams
• Marine M1A1 FEP Abrams
• LAV-25
• LAV-AT
• LAV-C2
• LAV-25 A2
• LAV-AT A2
• LAV-C2 A2
• AAV-7A1
• AAVC-7A1
• MTVR 6x6 Armored Truck
• M1046 TOW Humvee
• M1114 Humvee w/ Mk19 Grenade Launcher
• T-90SA Tank
• BMP-3
• BRDM-2 (AT-5)

Also included are new scenarios and a campaign. Details about those, as well as details about some surprises, will be released later (if we would reveal them right now they wouldn't be surprises...)

The Marines Module is packed with a lot of cool stuff and it will be available to you all soon. "Soon" means "when it's ready". "All" means to anybody with a Battlefront, Paradox Interactive (retail), and Gamersgate (online) version of CM:SF.

CMSF Marines will be available only from www.battlefront.com and, like most Battlefront.com titles, will not be available in stores. The price will be $25.

Race Driver GRID gears up for European release on Friday

All-new glass-shattering, steel-bending, time-reversing Race Driver: GRID damage video unveiled ahead of the game's European/PAL release on Friday, 30th May.

The thrill of the race takes to the streets this week as Codemasters confirms that Race Driver: GRID is shipping across Europe and PAL territories and will launch at retail this Friday, 30th May, for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and Games For Windows. The game is set to ship to U.S. stores on June 3rd.

For the title that delivers a truly smashing racing experience, Codemasters has released a new video that showcases Race Driver: GRID's incredible damage engine that drives the game's signature high-impact moments. The video is now available to view and download from http://community.racedrivergrid.com/.

As Ralph Fulton, Chief Game Designer, provides commentary and details the innovative new Flashback feature, the Aston Martin DBR9, Dodge Challenger Concept, a Nissan Skyline and over 20 other thrilling real racing cars all take punishment in this bone-jarring demonstration of the EGO Engine's unparalleled damage system.

Intrinsic to Race Driver: GRID's intense, aggressive wheel-to-wheel races are its spectacular, genre-leading crashes. Up to 70 individual components on each car will damage, break or fall off depending on the severity of each collision. The damage doesn't stop there: glass shatters, carbon fibre will splinter and steel bends all in jaw-dropping real time.

Debris from damaged cars becomes a persistent danger on the tracks and must be negotiated. Taking damage also plays a vital part in gameplay as each car can take dents, scrapes and bashes to its bodywork, but too much damage on the wheels and engine bay will affect performance, ultimately terminally.

Going for that audacious over-taking manoeuvre and nailing the racing line pushes drivers and their cars to the very limit. If players go beyond that limit and write off their car, it may be time to take advantage of Race Driver: GRID's new Flashback feature, which gives players a chance replay the action and play again.

The replay function can first be used to inspect the detail of each impact through a rotating camera and witness the carnage unfold frame by frame in stunning slow-motion. Evolving replay technology, players can rewind to any point within the replay and then use Flashback to once again take control of the car and see if they can avoid the smash on the next run. Depending on the chosen difficulty setting, players can take advantage of Flashback up to five times during race at any point. Racing purists can, however, opt to disable the feature when in Pro Mode.

Gamers can experience Race Driver: GRID's amazing damage engine and Flashback feature right now in the demo, available from Xbox LIVE Marketplace, PLAYSTATION Network and www.racedrivergrid.com for the Games For Windows demo. For the full game, get ready to race to retail this Friday, 30th when the game launches for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system and Games For Windows with a Nintendo DS version to follow.

Family Table Tennis arrives on Nintendo WiiWare

Are you ready for some Table Tennis?!

Released now - Family Table Tennis for WiiWare! Developed by Arc System Works, creators of the Guilty Gear series, players will be able to go head-to-head with your family or friends, in a friendly match of table tennis for only 500 points!

“Family Table Tennis is a light-hearted, fun-filled game that will spawn hours of enjoyment”, states Frank deWindt II, Project Lead, Aksys Games. “With an easy control scheme, people of all ages will be able to enjoy this title thoroughly.”

Key Features:

• Fun for the Whole Family!
Choose between four different family members! There’s the son, Billy, the daughter, Sarah, Mommy, and Daddy!

• Power Shot!
Stagger your opponent and unleash a special technique for the win!

• Four Groovy Table Tennis Stages!
It doesn’t matter if you’re an indoor or outdoor table tennis player! Pick your poison from a gymnasium, to a forest park, to a beach, or even an amusement park!

• Exciting Mini Games!
Try your paddle at Target Table Tennis, Thrilling Table Tennis or Matching Table Tennis!

Family Table Tennis has been rated “E” for everyone by the ESRB. For more information about Aksys Games and Family Table Tennis can be found at www.aksysgames.com.

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