Upcoming Nintendo Wii release of Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, an incredibly fast and frenetic sidescrolling, run‘n’gun 2D shooter. The game will be released exclusively for WiiWare this winter, developed and published by Semnat Studios.
With visuals drawn and scanned in from several different art mediums such as pen & ink, acrylic paint and charcoal, Eduardo sports an untraditional aesthetic design for a videogame. Jump, shoot, whip, drive, fly and throw your way through hordes of Peking Opera pastries, spear toting carrots, robotic mangos, and more. Play with friends as you learn to cooperate effectively, or be annoying by throwing each other around the screen and attacking one another.
FEATURES
- Drop in co-op play for up to four players.
- Ride scooters equipped with laser-blasters and fly around in rocket packs in single player or co-op.
- Use 5 different pastry pickups to upgrade your firepower.
- Battle enemies through 13 unique levels.
- Several different difficulty options to choose from, allowing players to pick their desired level of challenge.
Eduardo the Samurai Toaster has been Rated E for everyone by the ESRB.
Masters of Mystery: Crime of Fashion is scheduled for release on all major portals and is available now at www.bbbarcade.com! Crime of Fashion is the first in a series of hidden object games that will appeal to fans of the genre and anyone who loves a good murder mystery!
The New York fashion world is turned upside down when Detective Carrie Chase discovers that a famous Fashion Designer has been murdered. She soon comes to the frightening realization that a serial killer is at large with an eye for design and a thirst for murder. Masters of Mystery: Crime of Fashion is a thrilling, hidden object game with a twist. Using interactive forensic tools, the player will solve cunning puzzles to ultimately uncover the horrifying truth behind these brutal crimes.
Key Features
A COMPELLING MYSTERY TO SOLVE
STUNNING, PHOTO-REALISTIC SCENES
HUNDREDS OF UNIQUE OBJECTS TO FIND
ENGAGING MINI-GAMES AND PUZZLES
INTERACTIVE FORENSIC TOOLS
With over 30 high profile games in its portfolio, Big Blue Bubble Inc. is one of Canada's leading video game developers. Each of company's divisions (Console and Casual) is dedicated to making the best possible games by combining innovative designers with top calibre artists and industry leading programmers. By maintaining a strong focus on the development of technology and showcasing it through award winning games, Big Blue Bubble will continue to lead the way in becoming a cornerstone of the casual gaming world.
Binary Hammer is pleased to announce that they have submitted our first game to the AppStore. This is their first collaboration with Javira and they couldn’t be happier with the results!
Plunge into this addictive one-finger game and enjoy hours of underwater fun! Guide Pudge the puffer fish as he swims as far as possible dodging any obstacles in his way as you go for the ultimate Pudge record. Pudge is the perfect companion on the go, whether you have a few minutes or hours to kill.
For even more Pudge action, break out the exclusive Head-to-Head mode as you challenge friends and family to a race in 2-Player mode ON THE SAME DEVICE AT THE SAME TIME!
Will you be the next Pudge champion?
How to Play The controls couldn’t be any easier: touch anywhere on the screen to move Pudge up, and let go to move Pudge down. You have to avoid hitting anything; because once you do, the game is over. The cave has random craggy rocks and the sandy ocean floor is strewn with shells and other colorful creatures.
Features
- Exclusive Head-to-Head Mode. Two players on the same device at the same time! - Hours of addictive one-finger gameplay. You will never play the same game twice! - Over 5 minutes of super-catchy music and sfx. - Everyone can play… no reading required! - Easy to pick up, hard to put down. - Crisp, colorful graphics.
- All this in just a 3.2MB download!
Localized to: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese.
Coming Soon
- Play your own music during the game - Global leaderboard - WiFi mode
free version of Chicktionary – one of the most popular word games on the internet – for the iPhone, and has boosted the puzzle count in the full iPhone version.
In Chicktionary, your goal is to unscramble a roost full of letters and create as many words as possible. Each chicken bears a letter. Tap the chickens and spell out a word, then watch as the word appears below them. The more words you create, the more points you earn!
Besides the egg-citing game play, Chicktionary has cool features that give it depth, making for one of the most engaging game experiences on the iPhone and iPod Touch:
• Shake your iPhone to shuffle your chickens and get a new look at your word options. • Earn Eggchievements for crazy stuff or just playing the game like a pro. • Save your game and complete it at a later time. • Send a challenge-a-friend message directly from your iPhone. • Post your scores to a worldwide leader board. • Find hidden Chicktionary Easter eggs that are as fun and farm-fresh as the game itself.
The free version of the game (“Chicktionary Lite”) has 12 levels of game play. The full version of Chicktionary, which now comes with 300 puzzles, can be purchased for only $1.99. Both versions can be downloaded from the iTunes Chicktionary homepage http://www.blockdot.com/iphone/.
Crayon Physics Deluxe, now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. An award-winning title that is set to bring a new level of creativity and imagination to the iPhone and iPod touch, Crayon Physics Deluxe is a revolutionary 2D physics puzzle game that allows users to create drawings that can be transformed and fully interactive within the environment of the game by utilizing the touch screen.
Crayon Physics Deluxe allows users’ drawings to come to life, becoming interactive within the environment of the game through the touch screen. By using one’s artistic vision and creative use of the in-game physics engine, the object is to guide the ball through each of the crayon-drawn levels featured in the game. Players can use pivot points and ropes to help master the levels, and once they get the hang of it, they can jump into the easy-to-use level editor to create their own masterpieces. The possibilities are endless with Crayon Physics Deluxe, as the game features open-ended gameplay. Anything a user can imagine, they can create; as long as it helps them reach their goal!
After appearing at the recent 2008 Independent Games Festival, Crayon Physics Deluxe won the Seumas McNally Grand prize. The release of Crayon Physics Deluxe is highly anticipated due to its fame earned on the PC, and will have players transforming their drawings into real physical objects, bringing them to life on the iPhone and iPod touch.
Image via WikipediaAfter the success of Halo 3 in 2007, Microsoft started 2008 on a very rocky basis as its Xbox Live Service experienced frequent outages.
However it didn't take long for the service to bounce back and then help deliver some of the best games of the year.
Yes, this is the year I truly think digital delivery came into its own. Braid, Castle Crashers, and Geometry Wars2 headlined Xbox Live Arcade and offered some of the best new gameplay experiences available, and high definition remakes of games such as Bionic Commando and Street Fighter II made playing classics feel brand new. Braid on its face seems like a simple Super Mario style side-scrolling action game, but your ability to roll back or speed up time made the simple timed jump mechanics one of the most complex and fun experiences in gaming.
The glorious painted graphical style and atmospheric music make the $15 price tag seem unfairly inexpensive for its creators.
Of course this is Xbox, and its power is not in the artsy or indie, but in testosterone and raw destruction. The biggest contenders for this prize are Burnout Paradise and Gears of War 2.
Burnout Paradise is an open world racing game, where you're dropped into a fictional city and can start a competition at any traffic light. Ramps and shortcuts litter the streets, inviting daring jumps and stunts, and you're rewarded new cars by running your opponents aggressively off the road. Tap the left and right bumper buttons simultaneously and your car will go into a controlled roll and a counter will keep a running tally of how much damage in dollars you can cause. One of my better runs racked up a 110-car pile-up, including 8 city buses, that totaled several million dollars in damage. The almost pornographic level of destruction is offset by there being no human drivers or consequences for such actions, making it like playing with Matchbox cars that explode.
Gears of War 2 continues the adventures of Delta Squad from the 2006 original. You'll traverse city streets, tunnels, and mountains fighting an invading alien menace with maximum machismo. The story is paper thin, but the gameplay is right there and accented with over the top voice acting and literally dozens of ways to take down and enemy, including a chainsaw mounted to the end of your rifle. Not for the faint, but what it lacks in subtlety it makes up for in replay value.
Nintendo started the year as a phenomenon, and finished in a clear lead, outselling rival Xbox 360, and scoring more than double the sales of Sony's Playstation 3, which was released the same week in 2006 as the Wii.
It would be a fair assessment to say Nintendo has ridden a wave of casual games to the point of abandoning their dedicated fan base.
The first half of the year saw the release of its most anticipated titles, Super Smash Bros Brawl and Mario Kart Wii, sequels to historically fun games.
But shortly thereafter, Nintendo packaged a bathroom scale with a game called Wii Fit for $90.
This became 2008's biggest breakout hit, far outselling Grand Theft Auto IV and other traditional gamers' games. Like Wii Sports, Wii Fit asks you to make simple movements to play various minigames, but also tracks your weight while you do it.
I wish I could tell you what happened in the World Of Wii in the second half of the year, but the only major releases were Animal Crossing: City Folk, a virtually unchanged update of a game on DS and Gamecube in previous years, and Wii Music, a title designed for those who find the gameplay of Guitar Hero to be too much realism, and instead relies on gestures to mimic various musical instruments. When I was a kid, they called this "air guitar," though now they've also added air sousaphone and air glockenspiel.
Mario Kart Wii, the game I'd most heartily recommend.
The world of Neopets is coming to Nintendo platforms and the PC! Capcom has teamed up with Infinite Interactive, the developers that brought gamers the Puzzle Quest titles, and Nickleodeon to bring this engaging virtual world to the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and PC with Neopets Puzzle Adventure.
Neopets Puzzle Adventure is similar to the classic game of Reversi and Go with a unique Neopets spin and combined with many fun mini-games. For the first time, Neopets fans will be able to earn secret codes in the DS, Wii or PC game that they can redeem on Neopets.com for exclusive virtual items and accessories!
Appealing to both casual gamers and Neopets fans, Neopets Puzzle Adventure is the only multi-platform puzzle adventure game based on the popular virtual community. For the Neopets fan, Neopets Puzzle Adventure is a must-have game with its intuitive “pick up and play” gameplay, new never-before-seen areas in the Neopets universe to explore and the opportunity to redeem codes for exclusive virtual items at Neopets.com.
The game board itself resembles a chess board, while the gameplay takes the principles of Reversi and Go, and adds new twists that take the adventure to unexpected levels. The goal is to turn all of the chips on the board to your Neopet’s colour.
Neopets.com is a global community with an active virtual economy based on caring and raising virtual pets, collecting Neopoints, and taking part in daily and weekly creativity contests, discussion boards, quests and thousands of virtual items. It’s called the “stickiest site on the web,” with its Tweener audience spending an average of three hours per week on the website. With an in-depth and exciting storyline based on the world of Neopets, and an entire virtual world to explore, Neopets Puzzle Adventure is the ultimate puzzle-adventure game for players everywhere.
Features:
• Neopets Puzzle Adventure will generate codes that can be redeemed for unique items on the Neopets.com website • Choose and customise one of 12 Neopets to be your central character in the story • Travel through three Lands of Neopia as you experience an epic story with more than 150 quests in the single-player game • “Co-operative” and “Head-to-Head” multiplayer matches • Collect 150 “PetPets” for extra abilities and earn 30 special Awards for completing missions • Collect over 300 items, recipes and treasures, many of which can be equipped on your pet to provide useful bonuses
Based on the critically acclaimed Dead Rising for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop follows the harrowing tale of Frank West, an overly zealous freelance journalist on a hunt for the scoop of a lifetime. In pursuit of a juicy lead, he makes his way to the small suburban town of Willamette only to find that it has become overrun by zombies.
Frank escapes to the local shopping mall where he thinks he will find safety only to discover its crawling with the un-dead. In order to survive players will have full reign of a realistic shopping centre where an endless supply of real and makeshift weapons will be at their disposal to fight off the flesh-hungry mob. Utilising the Wii remote, this new iteration to the series will take zombie-bashing to a new level as you shake, swing and aim your weapons in an effort to take the enemies down.
The game is split into a series of individual cases, all of which Frank must complete in order to gain vital information that allows him to piece together the truth behind the horrendous epidemic.
Players will be faced with the dilemma of deciding the rescue priority of the Willamette residents who have also sought sanctuary in the mall. Depending on the player's skill some may not be as fortunate as others as each rescue needs to be undertaken in a set time period causing players to delay completion of a case in order to save a fellow human. Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop's infectious humour delivers welcome relief from the incessant tide of zombies with players able to dress Frank up in a variety of comedic costumes and take on the undead hordes with a selection of highly ineffective weapons such as a toy sword or a football.
Features:
Utilises the same engine as Resident Evil 4 Wii edition
New level of interaction utilizing the Wii remote – aim and fire guns, swing and throw weapons and shake off zombie attacks with added Wii remote functionality
New enemies exclusive to Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop
Huge environment – Vast indoor and outdoor mall areas provide a variety of different locations to explore
Improved save functionality allows for more seamless gameplay
Hordes of enemies on screen at once resulting in non-stop, pulse pounding action
Anything in the mall is at Frank's disposal for battling the flesh-hungry mob
Grab environmental objects, such as umbrellas and benches, or store items, such as golf clubs and lawnmowers from the mall shops to use as improvised weapons
Consume food and drink from one of the malls many restaurants and cafés to resume Frank's health
Latest Nintendo DS Game for Girls Set to Expand Critically - Acclaimed Littlest Pet Shop Digital Collection
EA announced that spring fever has arrived early with work underway to launch Littlest Pet Shop Spring for the Nintendo DS in March 2009.
Targeting 6-10 year old girls, the game will be the sixth offering in the Littlest Pet Shop interactive gaming lineup following the highly successful Wii, PC and three Nintendo DS (Winter, Garden, Jungle) releases in 2008.
Inspired by the Hasbro, blockbuster toy line, Littlest Pet Shop Spring for the Nintendo DS will feature a festive and colorful spring environment for girls to explore alongside their favorite sidekicks, including six new, exclusive pets. The fun also gets turned up with all-new playsets as well as four new mini-games for a total of 20 including those from previous Nintendo DS versions. Accessory choices will also expand allowing pets to step into spring in high style. With the addition of 20 new accessories, girls will be able to select from well over 100 hats, glasses, scarves and other fun items.
“The response to our Littlest Pet Shop video games has been overwhelmingly positive and shown that girls want quality games, too,” said Chip Lange, Vice President and General Manager of EA Hasbro. “The team has been barraged with fan mail and girls are already clamoring for the next version so they can keep expanding their Littlest Pet Shop digital collection. We think they’ll be really excited about the Spring theme and it is scheduled to land at retail just in time to hop into Easter baskets.”
“EA has done a tremendous job of taking one of the most popular toy brands among young girls and bringing it to life on digital platforms,” said Mark Blecher, General Manager of Digital Media and Gaming at Hasbro. “The performance of the first wave of LITTLEST PET SHOP games launched in 2008 was amazing and we don’t expect the momentum behind this property to slow down anytime soon.”
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