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Saturday, November 08, 2008

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Well done Rick...

LittleBigPlanet video game features Stephen Fry

LittleBigPlanet, one of the year’s most anticipated and highly scored games for the PS3, features an introduction and tutorials voiced by Stephen Fry. Sidelines writer Dean Wilkinson was commissioned to work on this material, injecting a mix of humour and personality into the writing for that special Fry style. He also worked on the in-game text, renamed characters and extended their personalities and interaction.

Sini Downing, Sidelines Agency Director commented, “Dean joined Sidelines with extensive television comedy writing experience under his belt; while he was new to the interactive industry when he wrote for LBP he immediately understood the vibe the guys were looking for in the writing. He managed to get that careful balance of information and fun.”

Touchmaster 2 on Nintendo DS mini-video games

The wide variety of highly interactive mini-games that made Midway’s Touchmaster a favorite in bars and arcades across the country returns again with Touchmaster 2 for the Nintendo DS. With all new games, including exciting twists on some familiar classics, including new spins on Mahki, Poker and Solitaire, Touchmaster 2 offers addictive fun for gamers of all ages.

Touchmaster 2 offers a collection of 20 new addictively fun and exciting card, action, strategy, puzzle and picture games. Play a quick round to beat your high-score or find some real competition playing head-to-head against other players. Touchmaster 2, the personal arcade that fits snug in the palm of your hands!

20 Brand New Games!

Poker Slide
View Finder
Spellwinder
Scavenger
What is it?
Rampage Empire
Bowling Speed
Demon
Super Mahki
Picture Slide
Beaned!
Catacombs
Prismatix
Combo 11
Dice King
Speed Solitaire
Carpet
Catwalk Caper
Triples

Billiards

Five Game Categories
Select from Cards, Action, Strategy, Picture and Puzzle.

Multiplayer
Play with friends using local wireless Ad-Hoc play or by passing the Nintendo DS around.

Download Play
Beam your favorite Touchmaster 2 game to friends for instant battles on the Nintendo DS. Some games may be restricted due to size constraints.

New Reward System
Build up your Wizard Points and obtain all 60 platinum trophies to become the ultimate TouchMaster!

Platforms: Nintendo DS
Ship Date: November 2008
Genre: Puzzle
Publisher: Midway
Developer: PhoenixSoft
ESRB: Everyone

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword Nintendo DS video game for £9.99

Innovative DS Stylus Functionality: All action - including movement and attacks - can be performed using a DS stylus! Slashing over the on-screen enemies renders a sword attack, while tapping them summons up a shuriken (ninja star) attack. Many more skills, such as "izuna-otoshi" (the Izuna drop), "hien" (flying swallow) and "ninpo" (magic attacks), can be enacted with the DS stylus!

Powerful 3D Action Visuals: Enjoy the lavish graphics on this exceptional Nintendo DS game as you fight your way through increasingly tough skirmishes. Hayabusa's repeated battles with the enemies seeking to impede his progress are captured with dynamic camera work that elegantly highlights his vigorous resolve.

Dual Screens Fully Utilised: The wealth of beautiful depicted scenes throughout the story presented on the dual screens is a major attraction. A spectacular and original quest featuring an ardent character is brought to life in Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword. Six months after a despicable violation, Hayabusa stands on the verge of an epic new journey!

Save £20 buy it here on Play for £9.99 ...

No more heroes - Nintendo Wii game only £9.99

'No More Heroes' tells the story of Travis Touchdown, an animé fan who lives in the fictional town of Santa Destroy, California. After an unexpected turn of events, Travis finds himself being approached by the head hunter of an assassins' organisation. Travis is challenged to prove himself worthy by defeating ten other bloodthirsty killers - all with deep stories of their own - to make his way to the top of the assassins' league.

'No More Heroes' realises the dream of Wii players everywhere as they can wield the Wii Remote to swing the beam katana and perform spectacular wrestling moves. The game features avant-garde graphics that thrust players into a stylised world filled with edgier gameplay. Taking its lead from the silver screen, the storyline is riddled with laugh-out-loud violence, black humour and irony-filled dialogue. 'No More Heroes' is a multi-sense video game experience: dark, engaging and pure entertainment!

Buy the game from HMV for £9.99 SAVE £30 here...

Flight simulator Traffic X new website launched

The dedicated website for Traffic X, the latest version of the world’s best selling AI aircraft traffic expansion for Flight Simulator, is cleared for takeoff!

The DVD-ROM version of Traffic X is now available and to accompany the full release of download, boxed and upgrade versions, the dedicated Traffic X website www.justflight.com/trafficX-home.asp has now gone live.

The site is designed to support the huge community of Traffic X fans. Visitors to the site will find a huge amount of information about Just Flight’s best-selling AI traffic expansion and a steadily growing catalogue of user-generated content to enhance the program. Anyone who wishes to can create their own airport facility files or aircraft repaints and upload them to the Traffic X site to share with the rest of the Traffic X community.

Commenting on the new site, Just Flight’s Richard Slater said: “We’ve had a dedicated site for each release in our Traffic series since the days of FS Traffic 2002. The beauty of the Traffic series is that its huge army of fans take a lot of time and effort to put together traffic files for their own airports or repaint the aircraft. If they want to share their files with the rest of the community they can upload them to a site specifically aimed at other users. We have similar sites for our Cargo Pilot, Airliner Pilot and Flying Club titles and they have all proved to be extremely popular.”

Traffic X includes over 1,700 different aircraft variants based on more than 80 aircraft models. The planes are designed to the highest level of AI aircraft detail and painted in a dazzling variety of airline liveries from around the world. They can all be seen flying, landing, taxiing, parking and taking off at airports large and small.

The aircraft featured range from small single-engine private aircraft like the C152 right up to the world’s biggest airliner, the Airbus A380. The software also includes the highly advanced 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350 XWB and a huge amount of other aviation traffic that falls between these extremes. There is a massive selection of commercial jet airliners, regional jets, regional turboprops, business aircraft, general aviation aircraft and helicopters and, for the first time in the Just Flight Traffic series, a whole host of multi-national military aircraft!

As well as aircraft, Traffic X also boasts a huge set of new features – here’s a quick summary of some of them:

The new Traffic ControlCentre (TCC) program gives you full access to customise and expand your AI traffic in a comprehensive and easy-to-use way.
ChronoTraffic AI time period selection feature. Every aircraft and flight can now be set to be specific to a certain period of years.
Take the place of an aircraft spotter and watch the traffic at busy airports.
The all-new Follow-me car and pushback truck let you explore the airport from the ground and even guide incoming AI aircraft to their parking positions.
Traffic X now includes a diverse selection of military aircraft.
The 787 Dreamliner now has all the known launch customer liveries included!
The Airbus A350 XWB comes with all the known launch customers liveries included!
Keep an eye out for clandestine CIA Extraordinary Rendition flights.
An all-new Traffic Radar allows you to view traffic information for each AI aircraft in range. There are three different modes - vertical speed and current altitude, bearing and distance, identification and true airspeed.
Another Just Flight Traffic first - Unique Custom AI sounds.
Appropriate aircraft take advantage of the advanced animations in FSX to operate with airport service vehicles.

For more information and a VERY long list of features, visit www.justflight.com

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: Microsoft Flight Simulator X – Windows Vista or XP

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: PC with 3.0GHz (equivalent or higher) processor, 1.0Gb RAM, graphics card with 256Mb (or higher) video memory, DVD-ROM drive, Hard disc space – 3.0Gb

Burn Zombie Burn video game on PlayStation Network

The crypt keepers at Pinnacle Software and developer Doublesix have today lifted the lid on a brand new in-game trailer and screenshots which reveals all of the enemy zombie types players will encounter in the fiendishly addictive arcade shooter Burn Zombie Burn!, releasing on PlayStation Network in early Q1 2009.

Each type of zombie has its own behavioural pattern, strengths and weaknesses, and it is up to players to discover the most effective tactics to deal with them on their way to racking up that high score and of course staying alive. So, on to our undead roll call!

• Normal – The every day, humdrum, wants-to-eat-your-brains zombie. They shamble slowly around until they get close and then they rush towards you
• Exploder – Big flashing lights make sure these walking bombs are clearly visible. Don’t get too close or they’ll try to take you with them
• Crazy – Identifiable by their beanie hats, these zombies will chase you clear across the map
• Dancers – Dancers hate it when you look at them and will try and dance around to attack you from the back
• Rushers – The jocks of the zombie world, they’ll charge you at speed but they’re not too bright and can’t turn very well
• Riot – These zombies have taken precautions, with welder’s masks to protect their faces and dustbin lids to protect their bodies, they can only be shot from behind
• Noxious – These diseased zombies can cause damage if you get near them but worse still – they can infect other zombies with a plague that turns them green and makes them immune to fire and dance guns. Kill these quick!
• Super Zombie – He’s big, he’s strong, his brain’s in a jar and he has serious bowel problems! Pretty much immune to everything except explosives, the Super Zombie is hard to kill.

To keep up to date on all things Burn Zombie Burn! related head to www.burnzombieburn.com

About Burn Zombie Burn!

Releasing on PlayStationNetwork in early Q1 2009, Burn Zombie Burn! is an addictive and charismatic arcade shooter bearing the ‘just one more go’ hallmark that defines all of the great games in the genre. Set across six classic American horror movie inspired levels, you play as Bruce – an average every-day Joe who was looking forward to some ‘quality time’ with his girlfriend Daisy. In true B-movie style their Saturday night is ruined by an invasion of zombies.

The aim of the game couldn’t be simpler; shoot, burn and blow up as many brain munching zombies as possible using a variety of classic zombie killing weapons before they overwhelm you. Use fire to build up your multiplier and then destroy zombies en masse with explosives to increase that oh-so-important leaderboard high score. But beware! A burning zombie is a faster zombie – burn too many and they will burn you!

Burn Zombie Burn! is frantic, arcade gaming at its best, delivering humour and bloody zombie violence in copious amounts!

Space Invaders video game comes to WiiWare

TAITO game SPACE INVADERS GET EVEN will be available, to download exclusively from the Nintendo WiiWare service, across Europe from today.

30 years after the original SPACE INVADERS ignited an entire entertainment medium and founded a gaming generation; players can now prepare for role reversal in this brand new action-invasion, where the fate of the Earth is in their alien hands.

Players will control mysterious UFOs and give orders to hordes of Space Invader underlings in an attempt to overrun Earth and battle Earthlings’ attacking human weaponry.

John Yamamoto, president and chief executive officer of Square Enix Ltd. comments, “SPACE INVADERS EXTREME launched earlier this year recaptured the hearts of many gamers, and launched the SPACE INVADERS series to a new generation of younger fans. SPACE INVADERS GET EVEN promises to be a great follow-up release for this the 30th anniversary of the series.”

For more information about SPACE INVADERS GET EVEN, please visit the official website at www.spaceinvadersge.com

SPACE INVADERS GET EVEN features

Intense action-invasion where the roles have reversed and you, and your Space Invaders are attacking Earth!

Control mysterious UFOs and give orders to hordes of Space Invader underlings, as you attempt to destroy the feeble human weaponry

Five unique attack modes to fit any battle situation you will face. Choose between Shot, Homing, Burst, Drill and Hopping

Be prepared to battle the onslaught of Earthling technology including Tanks, Battleships, Fighter Planes, Fortified Buildings, Attacking Helicopters, not to mention the Bosses!

Battle across seven unique gaming environments

Upload your High Scores via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and battle for the world’s highest score!

My animal centre animal hospital video game on Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii

Now the fun comes full circle: The first part of the most popular animal hospital simulation sets off to the autumn season with new editions for Nintendo DS and Wii. Accompanied by this darling of the public and winner of the TOMMI-Award it’s possible now to foster & heal on the go or to get closer to the animals via Wii Remote at home.

And the winner is … When 'My Animal Centre' was stacked onto the shelves in 2006, no one could anticipate the tremendous success of the animal simulation and its exotic follow-ups. Winning the TOMMI-Award for children’s software and the Comenius Award already in the year of publication was just the beginning of a success story. In 2007 the second chapter of the top product series was awarded: 'My Animal Centre in Africa' received the coveted „GIGA-Maus“ for the best console game and ranked second at the TOMMI-Award for children’s software. Last but not least a few days ago Braingame was honoured with the 'GIGA-Maus' of the children’s jury for the down under version of its classic. Positive proof that both professionals and interested kids agree on the fact that Braingame’s original is way ahead of its fellow products. 'My Animal Centre' does not only convince through its distinctive look & feel and ever new and changing cuddly quadrupeds but first and foremost with a genuine plus of knowledge and seriousness. It is not without reason that the comprehensive knowledge section is repeatedly accoladed both by pedagogues and little fans. Finally the bestseller and showcase item for sophisticated edutainment is also available for Nintendo DS and Wii platforms.

Quality squared! Just as the original the new edition captivates with detailed 3D-graphics, countless possible actions and irresistible quadrupeds. As one is used to, the cute patients have to be examined and after careful diagnosis attended to, fostered and taken care of by the sympathetic vet. Naturally regular petting and playing with the sick dogs, cats, bunnies, piggies and horses adds to the convalescence. But there is also an economic aspect to the ‚dream vet job‘: How to maintain one’s own clinic? How to invest earned money profitably? In purchasing appropriate professional literature or rather the latest medical equipment? Under realistic economic conditions the prospective veterinary practices responsible budgeting and thoughtful handling of money. The one, who, after such an amount of mental work, is longing for relaxation, may indulge oneself after hours with a bubble bath, a new hairdo or a delicious dinner.

Double bonus! Of course both on Nintendo DS and Wii the young vet may browse and bury oneself in the comprehensive knowledge section at will. Here she finds carefully illustrated information about her cuddly patients, the most common animal diseases and their treatments. As before, studiousness will be rewarded, because knowledge means competence. Also on the console versions one can switch between different languages, create up to 3 various user profiles and choose from 30 mini games. The custom-made interface, a menu navigation perfectly aligned on Nintendo DS and Wii as well as the seamless integration of all platform specific features provide manifold possibilities of interaction with the animal patients. With the Nintendo DS version, the Nintendo DS stylus is used for examination, feeding and petting - plus, as an absolute highlight, the assignment of the microphone: with her gentle voice the vet calms down nervous patients during their treatment. For petting and caressing with the Wii version, the remote is at one’s command: via the rumble feature the medic is even able to feel the content purring of her spoiled kitten on her very own body. And when it comes to the cleaning of the enclosures, it may be possible that the vet breaks out in a sweat, due to the realistic motion sequences with the Wii Remote and the Nunchuk.

Upshot: 'My Animal Centre is a game we actually didn’t want to switch off anymore“, said the children’s jury of the software award TOMMI 2006. And you don’t have to! Due to the new version for Nintendo DS the queen of animal simulations is finally mobile. Whether on the world’s most popular handheld console or via Wii Remote on the big screen at home: „My Animal Centre' is just plain fun!

Nintendo DS features:

• 4 Tutorials
• 20 scenarios
• More than 30 mini games with all species
• Complete 3D-game environment with realtime 3D characters
• Comprehensive and carefully illustrated knowledge section
• Perfect integration of all Nintendo DS features, including microphone

Wii features:

• 10 scenarios
• More than 30 mini games with all species
• Unique gaming experience: seamless integration of all Wii features
• Free camera perspective and impressive 3D graphics
• Comprehensive & carefully illustrated knowledge section

Product Information:
Product: My Animal Centre
Genre: Simulation
System: Nintendo DS + Wii
Publisher: Braingame / Deep Silver
Distributor: Koch Media
DS Release: tbd
Wii Release: tbd
PEGI: 3+
DS RSP: 39,95 €
Wii RSP: 39,95 €

The Battle Rages on! New Sacred 2 Video

Introduction to Ancaria video series. In this new video from Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, the upcoming action-RPG for Windows PC and next generation consoles, the mighty Seraphim (a playable character in the game) aids in the defeat of the undead army, and then must face-off against an even more powerful foe - the gargantuan Stone Golem.

Watch this and other Sacred 2 Fallen Angel videos on my YouTube channel here...

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