Babysitting Mania - on Nintendo DS - Fact Sheet

Babysitting ManiaFact Sheet

Publisher: Majesco Entertainment
Developer: Gogii Games & Glyphic Entertainment
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Simulation
Release Date: September 2008
Price / Rating: $19.99 / E

Overview:
You finally passed your babysitting course and are ready to help your school fundraising efforts. But are you ready for 20 out of control houses filled with unruly kids, neverending chores and parties to manage, all before bedtime? Based on the hit multi-tasking PC simulation game, Babysitting Mania for the DS starts you off slow but ratchets up the mania as you scurry about tending to rambunctious kids and household tasks while maintaining your composure before the parents get home. Only the ultimate babysitter will survive!



Features:

• The sequel to the highly successful Nanny Mania PC game that’s been downloaded 7 million times
• Play through more than 100 levels of fast-paced overlapping tasks and challenges! Feed, entertain and clean up after the children without losing your cool through 20 chaotic houses with indoor and outdoor areas
• Use the intuitive Touch Screen to manage all aspects of the household with speed and precision
• Prevent the kids from creating more havoc by strategically using “Timeouts”
• After cleaning the house, put the kids to bed at “Bedtime” before their parents get home
• Bonus birthday party levels increase the difficulty as neighborhood kids drop by to celebrate the special occasion
• Choose to play as the babysitter or bonus nanny character from Nanny Mania
• Care for children in various stages of their lives—from babies to toddlers to teens—it’s up to you to manage them all!

Metal Gear Solid 4 - Guns of the Patriots - World Championship 2008

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First details of its Metal Gear Online World Championship 2008 tournament, which will embark on regional heats in the summer globally with the grand final taking place at October’s Tokyo Game Show event.

The competition is open to the best Metal Gear Online players from Europe, the US, Japan, and Greater Asia, with the individual territories to host regional championships where the wining teams will receive all-expenses-paid trips to Japan. The first championship will take place in the US at ComiCon in San Diego, with full details of the European heats to be announced via www.konami-mgo.com in the coming weeks.

Metal Gear Online is a dedicated online title included in Metal Gear Solid 4 - Guns of the Patriots, an exclusive title for PLAYSTATION 3, which took the market by storm on its release in June. Featuring unique characters, a wide range of weaponry as well as many levels taken from and inspired by the Metal Gear Solid Series, Metal Gear Online is the ultimate team based online tactical shooter which allows up to 16 people to play simultaneously. Retaining the highly renowned stealth combat gameplay of the Metal Gear series, players can immerse themselves in this whole new multiplayer online experience as they are dropped into a series of war zones where a host challenges await them.

Lawn Games for Wii - Fact Sheet

Lawn Games for Wii

Lawn Games is a casual sports game for up to four players for the Nintendo Wii. Developed by Austin-based Mock Science, Lawn Games offers eight time-proven favorite games with a common pick-up-and-play outdoor theme: Croquet, Volley Ball, Badminton, Tether Ball, Bocce Ball, Lawn Darts, Horse Shoes, and Lawn Dice.

Eight distinct, stylized backyard and garden environments from around the world offer an entertaining and familiar backdrop for customizable cartoon alter egos – swap hairdos, heads, bodies, hands, feet and accessories – to compete for unlockable yard decorations, furniture, additional characters and customization options, as well as bragging rights.


A from-the-ground up design for the Wii leverages natural motion controls and creates a highly accessible experience without learning curve. Full WiFi support further ensures gamers can compete with others from around the world for the ultimate challenge.

Key features

• Eight pick-up-and-play backyard games – Croquet, Volley Ball, Badminton, Tether Ball, Bocce Ball, Lawn Darts, Horse Shoes, and Lawn Dice – offer a natural party game experience with little or no learning curve.
  
• A fun cartoon art style, including customizable alter egos and eight stylized backyard settings, delivers an enjoyable casual experience suitable for all ages and both genders.
  
• Players may modify their avatar's skills, taking into account luck, aim and more
  
• Players are rewarded for besting the competition with unlockable decorations, backyard furnishings, accessories and additional character customization options.
  
• 32-player Nintendo WiFI-enabled multiplayer for challenging friends and family online or in LAN play
  

Damnation FPS - Fact Sheet

Damnation

DEVELOPER: Blue Omega
PUBLISHER: Codemasters
RELEASE: Autumn 2008
PLATFORM: PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, Games For Windows
WEB: www.codemasters.com/damnation

Damnation: "the shooter gone vertical." With vast, streaming environments, Damnation’s levels are truly organic 3D spaces that cover miles of horizontal distance and thousands of vertical feet.



DESCRIPTION:

Changing the landscape of shooters forever with a revolutionary blend of movement and combat in all three dimensions, Damnation is a non-stop test of reflexes, decision-making and action. Taking the shooter vertical, Damnation features massive streaming landscapes that set the stage for post-industrial battles between humanity and an unstoppable corporation in the wastelands known as Damnation. With the freedom to go anywhere and kill anyone to reach a goal, players create their own routes using vehicles, acrobatics and climbing to get around the huge maps.

In Damnation, players take control of Captain Hamilton Rourke, a member of the guerrilla resistance force known as the Peacekeepers. A veteran of the Great War, Rourke has his own personal agenda in avenging the death of his fiancé.

KEY FEATURES:

Huge Scale - With vast, streaming environments, Damnation’s levels are truly organic 3D spaces that cover miles of horizontal distance and thousands of vertical feet. Players choose from multiple paths and tactics in gigantic landscapes that unfold in all three dimensions. Using exhilarating combinations of swift, flowing movement and combat, players will be faced with frenetic all-action attacks that can come from any direction.

Player Choice and Freedom - It could take up to three hours in real-time travel to get from one end to the other and another three hours to climb to the top. But with acrobatics and vehicles, players are able to get their own routes, as they look at the massive map ahead, above and below them.

“Spirit Vision” - Players can activate the hero’s “Spirit Vision” power to see through walls and anticipate the enemy’s movements.

Daredevil Stunts – Players perform stunning moves at the limits of human ability to jump between ledges, swing on ropes and chains, and traverse vertical surfaces. Zip, slide, vault, shinny, swing and jump through the environment with intelligent AI attacking from all sides, above and below.

Multiplayer – Play through the entire singleplayer campaign in co-op or take it to the next level online with multiplayer. Experience action and tactics in vertical environments with fully enabled “Spirit Vision.”

Star Ocean - The Last Hope - Fact Sheet for Xbox 360

STAR OCEAN - THE LAST HOPE

Developer: tri-Ace Inc.
Publisher: Square Enix, Inc.
Platform: Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft
Genre: RPG
Ship Date: Spring 2009

STAR OCEAN - THE LAST HOPE is the latest entry in the futuristic space opera RPG series, STAR OCEAN. Science fiction and fantasy meld in this long-awaited continuation of the celebrated franchise from developer tri-Ace Inc.

STORY
The year is S.D. 10. In the aftermath of World War III, humanity voyages into the stars in search of a new home…and a second chance.

FEATURES

• A prequel that combines sci-fi and fantasy elements, spanning multiple planets and the vastness of space itself to recount the origins of the STAR OCEAN universe

• Exhilarating combat expands upon the franchise’s famous real-time battle system, including the amazing graphics and visual effects only possible on the Xbox 360

• Features breathtaking CG movies by Visual Works, the cutting-edge studio whose previous work includes cut scenes for the acclaimed FINAL FANTASY RPG series

Star Ocean - First Departure + Second Evolution- Fact Sheet for PSP

STAR OCEAN - First Departure + Second Evolution

ESRB: Not Yet Rated
Ship Date: October 21, 2008
STAR OCEAN: Second Evolution
Ship Date: January 6, 2009
Developer: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
Publisher: Square Enix, Inc.
Platform: PSP (PlayStationPortable) system
Genre: RPG

Following the exploits of humankind’s journey across the stars, the STAR OCEAN saga comes to life in the completely remastered STAR OCEAN: First Departure and STAR OCEAN: Second Evolution, exclusively for the PSP (PlayStationPortable) system. Both feature a revised game engine, an improved battle system and fully voiced, all-new animated scenes displayed in 16:9 widescreen. And with a newly added layer of character interaction, players can enjoy their journey into the rich STAR OCEAN universe like never before.



STORY STAR OCEAN - First Departure
Space Date 346: The crew of a Terran Federation ship arrives on the planet Roak. With the help of a stalwart band of local heroes, the crew must work together to unravel a mystery and halt a galactic war. STAR OCEAN: First Departure marks the first time that the initial instalment in the popular STAR OCEAN franchise is available in North America.



STAR OCEAN - Second Evolution
Space Date 366: A young Federation officer finds himself transported to a mystical planet, where he is suddenly anointed as the Hero of Light. He begins a journey to fulfill a prophecy and save a newfound race. STAR OCEAN: Second Evolution continues the STAR OCEAN saga!

FEATURES

• Completely rebuilt for the PSP system, with real-time battles that keep players immersed in the action

• STAR OCEAN: First Departure, the entry that started it all, now available to North American audiences for the first time

• Brand-new, fully voiced animated cut-scenes provided by anime powerhouse Production I.G.

• The private action system adds depth to the story, introducing riveting subplots between characters

Monster Lab - Fact Sheet Nintendo DS & Wii

MONSTER LAB

PUBLISHER: Eidos, Inc. and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
DEVELOPER: Backbone Vancouver
PLATFORMS: Wii, Nintendo DS
RELEASE DATE: October 2008
GENRE: RPG/Action Hybrid
ESRB: RP – Expecting E10+
URL: www.monsterlabthegame.com

DESCRIPTION:
MONSTER LAB is an RPG/action hybrid game where the player conducts outrageous experiments and ventures out on wild quests and challenges. Players can battle against evil monster minions or friends online all while creating their very own mad monster.



STORY:
MONSTER LAB is set in an eerie, supernatural world where the evil Baron Mharti rules the region with a cruel hand. The player takes on the role of an apprentice scientist who must perform a vast array of intricate experiments to create their very own monster from over 150 available monster parts. Taking control of your monster, the player can then explore the land; searching for ingredients to make more monster parts, hunting out other monsters to defeat in combat and uncovering fun quests and challenges. The ultimate goal is to vanquish the evil Baron Mharti and liberate the villagers through mastering experiments, creating a powerful army of monsters and conquering all of the vast environments. Only then will the player rise through the ranks and become a scientist worthy of defeating the Baron!



KEY FEATURES:

• Step into the shoes of a Mad Scientist – Starting as an apprentice working under three eccentric mentors, level up through the ranks as you master the mad sciences.
  
• Outrageous Experiments – Cultivate your science skills through crazy yet ingenious experiments both in and outside the lab!
  
• Create your own Mad Monsters – Over 150 million monster combinations allow you to create a truly unique creature.
  
• Explore a challenging fantasy realm – Delve into six eerie regions facing quests, challenges and collecting powerful ingredients needed for your next mad monster creation.
  
• Gesture Combat – Go head-to-head against evil Monster minions in a fast-paced, ferocious, turn-based combat system.
  
• Monster Generation System – Never fight the same monster twice!
  
• Multiplayer – Challenge and compete against your friends’ monstrous creations.
  

BattleStations - Pacific - Fact Sheet

BattleStations - Pacific

Title: BattleStations: Pacific
Genre: Strategy/Action (Blends RTS/Flight/Naval)
Platforms: Xbox 360, Games for Windows
ESRB Rating: RP (Teen target)
Developer: Eidos Studios, Hungary
Publisher: Eidos, Inc.
Game URL: www.battlestations.net
Release date: Q1 2009

Description

BattleStations: Pacific is the immense sequel to the critically acclaimed Battlestations - Midway. The innovative franchise returns to complete the entire Pacific War with two massive single-player campaigns, the historically based US campaign and a historically possible Japanese campaign.



Players will experience one war through two epic sagas to be a part of history or change it. Commanding the US Fleet, players relive the grandest and most critical naval battles of the Pacific War and for the first time, as the Japanese, players lead the IJN Fleet to a completely different ending to the war.

No other game delivers the challenge of an RTS with the rush of real-time WWII flight and naval warfare. Players need intelligence and expertise to plan their moves in order to remain one step ahead of the opponent. The players command both strategy and action to anticipate every opponent move and turn the tide of war.

Twice the size of the original, the sequel includes 28 major battles, 100 units including 21 new units, five new innovative multi-player modes across eight new multi-player maps, and new features which include island capture, kamikaze attacks, and an improved easy-to-use interface.



Key Features

Combined Real-Time Strategy, Flight, and Naval Action gameplay: Command the air, sea, and sub forces. Launch full-scale attacks and at anytime switch to and take full-control of any plane, ship or sub. You command, fly the attack, fire the battleship’s 15-inch guns, and submerge the mini-sub anyway you choose throughout the battle.

Two Massive Campaigns: 28 full-scale battles across two unique campaigns. The historic American campaign begins after Midway and goes to Guadalcanal, Leyte, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and more. The “what if” Japanese campaign begins at Pearl Harbor and goes to the Java Sea, Port Moresby, Midway, and beyond.

100 War Machines: Fighters, bombers, carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, subs, mini subs and more. 17 US planes including the new Corsair fighters and Curtis Helldivers, and 20 Japanese planes including the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden (Thunderbolt), and the night-fighting Nakajima J1N1 Gekko.

Innovative Online Multi-player Battles: Huge multi-unit battles for up to eight players (four on each side) on Xbox Live and Games for Windows Live. The largest battle involves over 100 units. And five all-new online gameplay modes: Island capture, Duel, Siege, Escort, and Competitive.

New & Improved Features:

• New Kamikaze attacks: The deadly attack is now fully integrated. Also features the manned Ohka, rocket powered kamikaze aircraft.
  
• New Island Capture: Capture and hold islands. Support the landing forces and take over artillery, radar stations, and airstrips.
  
• New Cockpit View: Go inside the WWII cockpits of fighters, dive bombers, torpedo planes and more.
  
• New Skirmish mode: Team up with a friend against the AI and expand your single player and multi-player experience.
  
• New Level of Realism: Greater detail and depth of field. New plane and ship destruction effects. Bullet tracers. New smoke and fire effects.
  
• New Interface: Improved command and control map screen, artillery, and repair controls. New hints and tips feature for new players.
  

Bioshock First Person Action - Fact Sheet

BioShock

Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: 2K Marin, 2K Boston, 2K Australia, Digital Extremes
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system
Release Date: October 2008
Web Site: http://www.bioshockgame.com

Product Overview:
Considered to be one the finest games in the history of interactive entertainment, BioShock is a watershed entry into the world of video games. As one of the most lauded franchises in the past decade, BioShock introduces gamers into an exciting world filled with fascinating characters, intelligent enemies and complex moral choices that define the foundation of the game world. With its rich story, meticulous attention to visual detail, tense action and infinite replay value, BioShock delivers the perfect blend of storytelling and first person action.
Developed by 2K Marin, 2K Boston, 2K Australia and Digital Extremes, the PLAYSTATION 3 system release brings forth new features and content that expands the world of BioShock in new and exciting ways.

Story Overview:
Barely surviving a plane crash, the player lands in icy uncharted waters and discovers an undersea city called Rapture, a failed utopia whose citizens had embraced genetic engineering before the city descended into pure anarchy. Power and greed have run amok and the city has succumbed to civil war. Fans have embraced BioShock’s mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. BioShock is also renowned for its rich visual detail depicting a gorgeous Art Deco world set deep beneath the sea.



Features:

• All-new PLAYSTATION 3 system exclusive content: In addition to the original revolutionary game experience, PLAYSTATION 3 system fans can enjoy a brand new difficulty mode – Survivor – as well as enjoy Trophy support as they explore Rapture. And the experience doesn’t end there – all new exclusive BioShock downloadable content will be available only on the PLAYSTATION 3 system after launch

• Choices and consequences: Make meaningful choices and mature decisions, ultimately culminating in the grand question: do you exploit the innocent survivors of Rapture…or save them?

• The world is your weapon: Take control of your world by hacking mechanical devices, commandeering security turrets and crafting unique items critical to your survival

• Weapon upgrades provide ammunition for every situation: Upgrade your weapons with ionic gels, explosives and toxins to customize them to take advantage of your enemies’ weaknesses

• Gameplay that evolves around your playing style: Customize your experience by genetically modifying your body through dozens of Plasmid Stations scattered throughout the city and turn your body into the ultimate weapon

• Adaptive AI provides challenges around every corner: Explore a living world where the inhabitants have interesting and consequential relationships with one another that impact your gameplay experience

• Immerse yourself in Rapture: Experience breathtaking visuals that vividly illustrate the forlorn Art Deco city, highlighted by strikingly realistic water effects and meticulously detailed environments

Borderlands First Person Game - Fact Sheet

Borderlands

Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: Gearbox Software
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Games for Windows
Release Date: 2009
Web Site: http://www.borderlandsthegame.com

Product Overview:
Borderlands combines the best in first-person action with player customization and vehicular combat for incredible layers of gameplay depth. The game features a groundbreaking content generation system allowing for near-endless variety in weapons, item drops and character customization. Borderlands allows for multiple players to share the same game experience simultaneously online in co-op gameplay. Players can freely join or leave each other's games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode. These features, along with a rich and deep fiction that touches upon the mysteries buried beneath the surface of a danger-filled planet, combine to form a breakthrough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters.
Features:

• Gun Lust: Choose from an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their unique manufacturers, specifications and advantages. A revolutionary new content generation system provides for near infinite tools of destruction

• Co-op Engineered Game Design: Borderlands is built from the ground-up to be an exciting and intuitive co-operative multiplayer experience that rewards players for executing advanced strategies and tactical maneuvers

• FPS Action Meets RPG Character Progression: Players earn experience and gain proficiency in a number of specialties as they do battle with enemies

• Intense Vehicular Combat: Get behind the wheel of and engage in intense vehicle-to-vehicle combat, complete with extensive damage modeling and spectacular explosions

• Next Big Original IP From Gearbox Software: Experience the action and creativity derived from the pedigree of one of gaming’s most innovative and respected developers