Puzzle Kingdoms video game on Nintendo DS Wii and PC

A vibrant mix of strategy and puzzle gameplay ensures an entertaining and unique in-game experience. Build your army and conquer territory to unlock new spells and infantry units!
Developed by the same team that brought you Puzzle Quest, Puzzle Kingdoms is set to be the new Puzzle Real Time Strategy smash hit on the Wii, DS and PC.

A vibrant mix of strategy and puzzle gameplay ensures an entertaining and unique in-game experience. Build your army and conquer territory to unlock new spells and infantry units!

Find the hidden secrets held within the magical kingdom by unearthing puzzles, managing heroes and units for utimate victory in battle!

• Choose from numerous heroes including wizards, dwarves,mages and trolls
• Amalgamate units and magic powers to obliterate your opponents for ultimate victory
• Multiple connect 3 style puzzle game-play styles for different key areas of the world
• Choose from numerous heroes including wizards, dwarves, mages

Hellion - Mystery of the Inquisition video game on PS3 Xbox 360 and PC

As the satanic brood turns the world into chaos, today Flying Fish Works announces the main character for their upcoming product “Hellion: Mystery of the Inquisition”. “Godric of Glastonbury”, a European sword master full of honor and devotion to the Holy Roman Church, is a religious servant during the unpromising resistance against the inconceivable evil.

A horrible incidence in his younger days decide “Godric” to become a master of sword fighting. Full of grief and aware of omnipresent injustice he left his homeland to revenge the past. On his journey across Europe, “Godric” joined the Dominicans, dedicated to the Pope, preaching and converting the non-believers. The Dominicans decided to reveal their arcane to “Godric”, including their knowledge of the supernatural and their ways of resisting both spiritual and incarnate evil. “Godric” gained knowledge of exorcism and together with his will to accomplish his fate he became a very unique knight.

“Hellion: Mystery of the inquisition” is an extraordinary First-Person-Shooter set in the 13th century. As an armed man of the newborn Inquisition, the player will battle heretics, execute exorcisms, face demons and unintentionally become part of a political and religious intrigue. It is an epic journey through different medieval cultures full of real-life characters, wild animals, rough warriors, powerful Templar knights, deadly assassins and, ultimately, horrifying demons.

Mahjong Zodiac video game for Windows PC

CasualGameStore announced a price cut up to 50% from the new version of Mahjong Zodiac for Windows.

Artex Studios has released a new version of its Mahjong Zodiac game while lowering the price. The new version brings significant improvements and bug fixes to play the game more intuitively. The price has also been lowered to better reflect the market expectations.

“We have got a great game and we want to make it affordable for even more customers and spread to a wider audience" - said Mr. Trencsenyi.

Firemint Real Racing for iPhone

A Whole New Experience from the Developer that Brought you the No1 Hit Game Flight Control.

Firemint, leading developer of games for the Apple iPhone, iPod touch and other wireless devices, today announced that its highly-anticipated racing game Firemint Real Racing is now available for purchase on the App Store. Anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch can download the game directly to their device from the App Store for $9.99.

Firemint Real Racing is Firemint’s second self-published game and follows on from the phenomenal success of Flight Control, which has gone to the No1 paid app position in 20 countries including the USA, UK and Japan. With over 800,000 downloads so far, Flight Control is one of the most popular games ever to be sold on the App Store.

“Firemint Real Racing is about as different as you can get from Flight Control in terms of scope, depth and features, but the two games both show our absolute commitment to delivering a highly polished, incredibly fun experience to players”, said Robert Murray, Firemint’s founder and CEO. “Firemint Real Racing has been a labor of love for the Firemint team since we first began building the game more than a year ago. Over the years we’ve had lots of experience in mobile racing game development, and our main goal with Firemint Real Racing was to create the most realistic, highest quality racing simulator ever to debut on a mobile device. We believe we have delivered on that goal.”

Firemint Real Racing provides gamers with the most thrilling racing experience on any wireless device by featuring a unique in-car view, the best, most realistic visuals of any iPhone game to date, and carefully balanced, intuitive accelerometer support. Players will also enjoy a full suite of social networking features enabled by Firemint’s revolutionary Cloudcell™ technology, which allows users to automatically upload video replays of their best laps to their YouTube account, and lap time records to social media sites like Twitter - all straight from the game.

Murray commented, “In terms of features and budget, Firemint Real Racing would have to be the biggest independent mobile game ever made. Our solid experience and track record made us confident in taking this risk, and the App Store made it possible for us to self-publish the game.“

Kynan Woodman, Firemint’s Development Director said “We believe we have set a new standard for iPhone racing games. Firemint Real Racing realizes the promise of power and elegance that the iPhone presents as a gaming platform.”

The innovative features and technical excellence of Firemint Real Racing have already been recognised by the games industry. At the 2009 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Firemint Real Racing won the coveted Independent Games Festival Mobile award for Technical Achievement. The game was also awarded for Excellence in Connectivity at the 2009 International Mobile Gaming Awards, held as part of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Firemint Real Racing features include:

* Boasting via broadcast – Upload video replays of your laps to YouTube with the push of a button
* Unique in-car view – Cockpit view with animated driver and dashboard instruments showing actual race data
* Custom control options – Firemint Real Racing includes several different control methods including a combination of accelerometer or touch-based steering as well as automatic or touch-based acceleration and braking. Players can adjust handling and sensitivity to suit their personal preferences
* Huge variety of cars and tracks – Players can unlock 36 cars in three classes (hatch, sedan and muscle) and 12 unique tracks designed for racing, each with its own challenges
* Endless hours of racing thrills – Players can choose from five game modes: local head to head over WiFi, Time Trial, Quick Race, Online League play and a massive single player Career mode
* Best in class graphics, sound and handling – Firemint Real Racing delivers consistently high frame rates, carefully detailed trackside environments and cars, 3D sound effects, licensed music and cinematic cut scenes. Accurate surface variations including asphalt, grass, gravel and ripple-strips affect vehicle speed, responsiveness and handling
* Connected racing for extended gameplay – In addition to YouTube functionality, players can sign up for online leagues and set up customized personal leaderboards on a purpose-built community web site

Swords & Soldiers is now available on WiiWare in Europe

You are about to meet the largest peppers in your life! Swords & Soldiers is out!

At long last Ronimo Games releases their highly anticipated Swords & Soldiers. The game is available in America for WiiWare on June the 8th 2009. 1000 Wii Points will get you a fresh and innovative side scrolling realtime strategy game with lots and lots of tactic peppermowing, barbecue action and epic fights for sauce and glory.

There's the Vikings, Aztecs and Chinese factions, each with their own very unique units and spells. They can battle it out across 30 campaign levels. In single player skirmishes against an AI or in the splitscreen multiplayer against a friend! During the campaigns, players can also unlock challenge modes which twists the gameplay into exciting highscore challenges. To top it all off, there's an achievement system to track your awesomeness in the world of Swords & Soldiers!

Also, the secret code contest is now open for NTSC regions! If you want to win one of the Swords & Soldiers goodie bags, make sure you get all 25 achievements and unlock your unique secret code. But make sure you are fast, only the first three secret code submitters win the prize! For PAL regions, the first few winners have already been chosen, and we sent out their goodies today. Both regions will also receive a second round of goodie-giving, so keep on sending those codes! Check www.swordsandsoldiers.com for submission info.

About Swords & Soldiers
Swords & Soldiers is the first side-scrolling strategy game on Wii, allowing for accessible and deep gameplay, a clear overview of the battlefield, and most importantly, for our artists to show off their beard-drawing skills. Players can choose from three powerful and unique factions as they let loose their armies and cast awesome spells to destroy the enemies' castle. Swords & Soldiers is developed and published by Ronimo Games.

Eduardo the Samurai Toaster coming to WiiWare

Semnat Studios is elated to be able to announce that Eduardo the Samurai Toaster is being prepared for launch on WiiWare in North America on June 15th, 2009 for a mere 800 Wii Points. That’s like the price of lunch. For the price of lunch you could own an awesome single-or-cooperative sidescrolling action game. Support the little guy!

Game info

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.

Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima game comes to iPhone and iPod touch

World-famous brain training guru Dr. Kawashima lands in the App Store

Fans of Apple's iconic iPhone and iPod touch are finally able to use their favourite gadgets to mentally roll back the years thanks to Namco Bandai Networks Europe. The mobile gaming leader has today launched Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima, founding father of the brain training gaming genre.

The game, which is published by Namco Networks America Inc, is specifically developed to to take full advantage of the iPhone/iPod touch platform, is available to download from the App Store immediately and introduces a range of challenging games, scientifically proven to test and enhance the performance of different areas of the brain.

Barry O'Neill, President, Namco Bandai Networks Europe commented, "It's not often that Apple aficionados have to play catch-up but the 27 million users of Dr Kawashima's various brain training platforms are testament to the rise of this genre of casual gaming. We look forward to seeing how iPhone and iPod touch users rank against others who are already using Dr. Kawashima's approved brain training games on the move."

Namco Bandai has also simplified the process allowing Apple users to get their brain training fix. iPhone/iPod touch users can upload their brain age to the Global leaderboard and compete with the best brains in the world. They can also compare test scores with friends on Facebook, tracking their progress against the people who really matter. The Facebook application also offers a free "light" version of the game to let Facebook addicts test their mental muscle before embarking on their mobile training programme.

The puzzles and games featured in Brain Exercise have all been supervised by Dr. Kawashima at Japan's distinguished Tohoku University to certify their brain-enhancing credentials. Users can test their brain age and track the progress of their daily training regime through a calendar. Over time, gamers can enhance brain age and unlock new games as rewards for completing different stages. A full Sudoku game with bonus levels has also been included to help raise a mental sweat.
Brain Exercise has also ensured that brain training is no longer a solo sport. A new challenge mode allows up to four players to pit their neurons against each other by playing on one device.

To see the game in action, check out the videos attached! To see Brain Exercise and more Namco Bandai Apps Store games click here Check out Brain Exercise on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Bebo

UK: £3.49 Europe: €4.99
US: $5.99

Astro Boy the video game HD trailer and HD movie trailer

In ASTRO BOY: THE VIDEO GAME, players become the iconic hero, Astro Boy, and take to the streets and skies on an epic adventure to save Metro City from the clutches of the evil President Stone and his robot army. Utilizing Astros entire arsenal of iconic weapons and abilities--Finger Lasers, Arm Cannon, Butt Machine Guns and Drill Attacks, players will battle hordes of robot enemies and colossal bosses including some never-before-seen enemies across Metro City and the mysterious Surface.

Using an intuitive combat system that adds depth to gameplay, players will experience classic platform action and exhilarating flight combat levels as they use Astros unique rocket boosters to hover, avoid enemies and zip out of the way of danger. ASTRO BOY: THE VIDEO GAME offers numerous unlockable and collectible elements that include exclusive art work, different versions of Astro Boy and more, as players live the story solo or side by side with a friend in 2 player co-op mode on Wii and the PlayStation 2 system.



ASTRO BOY: THE VIDEO GAME for Wii, PlayStation 2 system and PSP system is under development by High Voltage Software and Nintendo DS by Art Co. Ltd. The game is currently rated RP (Rating Pending) by the ESRB.

Extend Your Paradise on June 11 with Burnout Vacation to Big Surf Island HD video

Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island expansion pack will be available to download for $12.99 on the PLAYSTATION Network and Xbox LIVE Marketplace (1000 MS Points) on June 11 Worldwide.

Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island is a brand new playground that enhances and expands the amazing world of the award-winning driving game, Burnout Paradise. Highlights include fun challenges and events for groups of friends to play online, an exciting new world to discover, the biggest and wildest jumps yet, plus a set of nine new vehicles to experience it all in.



Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island also features an Island specific driver’s license for single player progression, challenging players to explore the World, find secret areas and experience a host of new events and challenges.

“Big Surf Island is the most fun players can have in Burnout Paradise and provides incredible value for money,” says Pete Lake, the Big Surf Island Producer at Criterion Games. “We listened to our community and built this massive new playground for them, taking everything they loved about the game and using it to make the Island as much fun as possible. Big Surf Island is packed full of action, everything is bigger and better, from the jumps, to the challenges, to the fun you’ll have playing there.”

Developed at Criterion Games in Guildford, England, Burnout Paradise has won over 55 awards worldwide and is available now for $19.99 on PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system. The game has been rated E10+ by the ESRB and 7+ for PEGI.

Iron Maiden Flight 666 joins Wii Rock Band on June 9th

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Disturbed and others also come to Wii Rock Band

Harmonix and MTV Games today announced 25 tracks from artists coming this week to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content for the Nintendo Wii system, including the highly anticipated 12 tracks from Iron Maiden, one of the world’s most successful rock bands.

As previously announced, the release of this week’s downloadable Iron Maiden tracks coincides with the U.S. release of Flight 666 on Blu-ray and DVD as well as a double-CD soundtrack album and limited edition double-vinyl picture disc. Flight 666 documents the first leg of Maiden’s legendary SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME WORLD TOUR, which took them 50,000 miles around the planet, playing 23 concerts on five continents in just 45 days. One of the stars of the movie is the band’s customized Boeing 757, Ed Force One, which carried the band, all their crew and 12 tons of stage equipment and was piloted by Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, a fully qualified and active Airline Captain with Astraeus Airlines.

Live recordings of “Aces High,” “Hallowed Be Thy Name,” “Fear of the Dark” and “Iron Maiden,” featured on Flight 666, are among those available for download in the Rock Band Music Store for Wii June 9. The other eight songs were among those featured on the band’s Somewhere Back in Time World Tour, during the first leg of which Flight 666 was filmed. This will mark the first time master recordings from Iron Maiden have been made available on Rock Band games.

“Fans have been asking us to do something with Rock Band for some time, and this seemed to be a perfect opportunity,” said Maiden manager Rod Smallwood. “Our recent Somewhere Back in Time tour was perhaps the most enjoyable one we have ever undertaken and certainly the most successful with almost 2 million people catching the shows around the world. So it just seemed a good idea to make some of the songs we played available now so fans can play along with the band on the tour. Then we shall see if they can keep up with the band!!”

Also coming to Wii DLC this week are tracks from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Disturbed and a special track from Stephen & the Colberts. These tracks come from the back catalog of Rock Band music already released to owners of Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 system. Wii fans can expect a rollout of previously released downloadable Rock Band content until the entire back catalog of more than 700 songs is available. With the addition of these tracks, there are now more than 290 tracks in the Wii Rock Band Music Store.

Tracks:
Blur “Beetlebum” (cover)
Die Toten Hosen “Hier Kommt Alex”
Disturbed “Indestructible”
Disturbed “Perfect Insanity”
H-BlockX “Countdown to Insanity”
Iron Maiden “Aces High (live)”
Iron Maiden “2 Minutes to Midnight”
Iron Maiden “The Trooper”
Iron Maiden “Wasted Years”
Iron Maiden “The Number of the Beast”
Iron Maiden “Run to the Hills”
Iron Maiden “Can I Play With Madness”
Iron Maiden “The Clairvoyant”
Iron Maiden “Powerslave”
Iron Maiden “Hallowed Be Thy Name (live)”
Iron Maiden “Fear of the Dark (live)”
Iron Maiden “Iron Maiden (live)”
Juli “Perfekte Welle”
Les Wampas “Manu Chao”
The Mother Hips “Red Tandy”
The Mother Hips “Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly”
Pleymo “New Wave”
Stephen & the Colberts “Charlene” *
Tokio Hotel “Monsoon”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Date With the Night”

(All tracks are original master recordings, unless otherwise noted

Price: $2.00 (200 Wii Points) per track