EA Scrabble now on iPhone and iPod Touch with Facebook Connect

EA Mobile announce that SCRABBLE on Apple’s App Store now supports Facebook Connect.

The new edition of SCRABBLE connects the Facebook SCRABBLE application to a SCRABBLE game on iPhone and iPod touch – or vice versa – allowing fans in the U.S. and Canada to have access to their favorite Hasbro-branded crossword puzzle game any time, any place.

“We’re excited to be one of the first companies to bring this popular game to two of the most prolific platforms in recent years, the iPhone and Facebook,” said Travis Boatman, Vice President of Worldwide Studios, EA Mobile. “With this new innovation, we’re giving players the opportunity to engage in SCRABBLE games from an iPhone, iPod touch or Facebook seamlessly, whether at home, during work or on the road.”

This connected version of SCRABBLE provides an intuitive interface that allows head-to-head challenges with family, friends or anyone accessing the game on Facebook, an iPhone or iPod touch. Start on Facebook and switch to iPhone or iPod touch to keep playing on the go. Connect with a Facebook friend from an iPhone or iPod touch or join a public game on Facebook. With easy tracking of scores and statistics, players always know where they rank against competitors. While playing SCRABBLE, gamers can enjoy built-in chat so they can converse with opponents and friends throughout the game. Players can also get help from in-game dictionaries.

“The ‘pick up and go’ integration between Facebook, iPhone and iPod touch allows SCRABBLE fans to truly stay connected to the game they love to play,” said Mark Blecher, General Manager of Digital Gaming and Media at Hasbro. “It is a great example of how technology is opening new and exciting channels of gameplay for one of the most popular board games in North America.”

SCRABBLE is available on Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore, and on Facebook for users in the U.S. and Canada, or by simply visiting www.eamobile.com. Customers who currently own SCRABBLE for the iPhone and iPod touch can download the update for free on their device. For information on pricing for all EA Mobile games, please visit www.eamobile.com.

Rag Doll Kung Fu - Fists of Plastic PlayStation 3 video game

Rag Doll Kung Fu - Fists of Plastic is a PS3 exclusive party-fighting game based on an original title by the creator of LittleBigPlanet, and developed by Tarsier Studios. A fast-paced combat game with an imaginative look and feel, Ragdoll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic focuses on fun with exaggerated ragdoll physics action and charming High Definition (HD) visual effects.

Featuring accessible and intuitive controls, even novice players can orchestrate impressive attacks with ninja-like precision. Additionally, hardcore players will appreciate the deep combat system, weapons use and strategy. Success depends mightily on the player mastering the basic Kung Fu moves and sharpening his acrobatic skills by swinging off platforms and somersaulting through the air. This action builds up Chi Power, which can be conjured to perform spectacular SIXAXIS™ wireless controller-triggered special attack moves and combat sequences. Furthermore, players can taunt their opponents with the Free Pose system, ensuring the battle is infused with lighthearted fun.

Players can perfect their Kung Fu skills in the Solo Adventure and also take their characters online with a variety of addictive free-for-all and team-based multiplayer modes, including King of the Hill, Assassin and Capture the Fish. Perfect for any social occasion, Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic offers frantic multiplayer action with up to 4 players locally or online.

KEY FEATURES
Accessible Controls – Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic’s pick-up-and-play controls allow for immediate fun for hours or in short bursts; perfect for a social setting
Ragdoll Characters – The vibrant HD and 3D plastic characters have limbs and stretchy body parts that move and react in a fun way. Players can unlock customisation assets to create their own characters – offering hundreds of combinations - and take them online.
Multidimentional and Strategic Combat – Players can chain attacks together, pull off spectacular in-air attacks, use weaponry and environmental objetct, master their Chi building skills and the Chi-powered special moves – all in 360-degree combat fun.
Fun Ragdoll Physics – Ragdoll physics not only give this title its charm, but also ensure that no two hit reactions are ever the same.
Single Player and Multiplayer Modes – Perfect for any occasion, Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic offers solo missions and frantic multiplayer action with up to 4 players locally or online.
Online Rankings and Trophy Support – Leaderboards and trophies will motivate players to aspire to both single player and multiplayer high scores!


Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA)
Developer: Tarsier Studios
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) via PLAYSTATION Network
Genre: Combat/Fighting
Players: 1-4 players
Release: TBA
Rating: “RP” for Rating Pending

Fallout coming to TV and movies? Bethesda take out trademarks...

Two trademarks filings spotted by Dwell On It show Bethesda Softworks has recently filed trademarks for Fallout covering use in television and movies, via Joystiq.
The trademarks, filed February 5 by the Fallout 3 developer and property owner, cover the Fallout name in relation to "Entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program" and "motion picture films about a post-nuclear apocalyptic world."

Bethesda appears to be tying up the Fallout property's loose ends for grand future plans, including planning to pull the plug on Interplay's Fallout MMO.

Whether anything will come of these trademarks remains to be seen but the prospect of a Fallout movie is enticing--even if, given the track record of video game movies, it would end up set in 2009 New York City, where hero Pip Vaulta must disarm a dirty bomb.

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Retired NFL players to sue EA and John Madden

After winning $28 million from their union, retired NFL players intent to take on EA and John madden for using them in video games without compensation.

The retired NFL players who were used in Madden EA video games will be suing Madden and EA for using us in those games without compensating us. We probably will not use ... the attorneys who obtained a $28.1 million verdict for us against the NFLPA for "scrambling retired players identities" in those video games. The jury found it a "grossly fraudulent" action taken so they wouldn't have to pay the retired players. ... In my opinion, Madden should have been included in our licensing suit against the NFLPA and so should EA.

They each intend to use $1000 from their $13,000 award to set up a fighting fund...

Beatles Rock Band video clip at Paul McCartney gig watch it here

Here's a clip of Sir Paul McCartney singing 'Got to get you into my life' with The Beatles Rock Band video game clip showing in the background.

Enjoy...

Rumble Roses scantily clad female wrestling game including mud mode...

Female wrestling game, Rumble Roses XX for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. The first and only all-women's wrestling game features the sexiest female models to ever grace the ring, jaw-dropping graphics and intense action - including the eagerly anticipated Mud Mode.

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"Rumble Roses is going to blow gamers away, not only because it features the sexiest wrestlers in the ring, but also because it has the best wrestling action in any game," said Rob Goff, product manager at Konami Digital Entertainment - America. "While our in-game characters are stunning and full of attitude, we've made sure that this beauty is backed up by plenty of muscle, including an arsenal of bone-crushing moves and styles for each wrestler that will keep gamers coming back for more."

Providing an experience not found in any other wrestling game, the beautiful ladies of Rumble Roses can dish out the dirt in the much talked about and highly anticipated Mud Mode. Delivering realistic mud matches, players will literally see mud sliding off these sexy wrestlers in their revealing bikinis after each take down in the mud pit.



Much more than just eye candy, the vicious vixens of Rumble Roses pack a roster of deadly moves, including traditional suplexes, kicks, elbows, and special moves for each character. Rumble Roses' unique combat system allows for characters to taunt or even place their foes in compromising positions, resulting in super "humiliation" moves to put opponents down for the count.
Players can choose to fight dirty or fair, influencing each wrestler's "good" or "bad" persona. Changes in persona can unlock each character's alter ego, with totally new costumes, moves and personality, providing more than 20 ladies to grapple. With the game's Exhibition Mode, gamers can get right into the action with a match between one of the many wrestlers or choose the Story Mode and learn the background of the wrestler as she fights for the championship. The visually stunning Gallery Mode lets gamers preview their wrestlers before entering the ring, including a complete profile of the character.

Rumble Roses was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo in partnership with acclaimed development studio, YUKE'S CO., LTD, and renowned CG movie specialist, Polygon Magic's VSL Team.

Rumble Roses is rated "M" for Mature by the ESRB and is available for the SRP of $39.99.

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Let's Tap video game from Sonic creator heads for Europe on Nintendo Wii

Let's Tap utilizes a ground-breaking control scheme where the Wii controller is placed on a box or flat surface so that the controller can detect minute vibrations. Players of all ages and skill levels then tap the box or flat surface to interact with the game; there's no need to hold the controller.



Developed by Prope, the studio that Sonic the Hedgehog' creator Yuji Naka established in 2006, Let's Tap is the first product from the new studio.

The Hardy Boys - The Hidden Theft puzzle adventure game coming to Nintendo Wii

The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft” is in development for Nintendo Wii. Players will face challenging puzzles and exciting dialogues embedded in a thrilling story, which is especially suitable for children! In The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft, the vault at Spencer Mansion is robbed, and the Bayport Police call on the Hardy Boys to help tie-up some loose ends, but they soon find themselves in the middle of a major criminal investigation that takes them on an adventure all over Bayport, and even into New York City. But the pieces don’t add up, and Frank and Joe find themselves embroiled in a drama of sinister proportions.

After their release on the PC, The Hardy Boys were able to obtain official awards including the “Ultimate Games Award 2008”, which focuses on pedagogical valuable games.

Also the BuPP, the “Federal Office for the Positive Assessment of Computer and Console Games”, situated at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth, loves the game and awarded a recommendation to The Hardy Boys. “A recommendation of the BuPP stands for: it is most likely that children will have fun playing the game and parents have no reason to be worried but can furthermore trust that their children will benefit beyond the fun from playing. The Hardy Boys fulfill these criteria!”, states Herbert Rosenstingl, head of the BuPP.

About The Hardy Boys

With over 100 million copies of their beloved books in print, America’s original crime scene investigators, Frank and Joe Hardy, are riding a wave of classic retro popularity combined with a whole new attitude. Since 1928, Simon & Schuster and Grosset & Dunlap have published The Hardy Boys classic editions, currently selling over 1 million copies annually. The new contemporary series Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, featuring the boys as spies for American Teens Against Crime launched in 2005, with an additional Super Mystery published every summer.

Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Adventure
AgeRating: PEGI 7+

Duel Master anime box set for Nintendo DSvision...

Here's a box set of the Duel Master anime.

The DSvision was a failed experiment, but it looks like Nintendo's keen to try and revive it. First you have to buy the DSvision adaptor, which is a regular DS cartridge with a mini-SD slot. Then you buy movies and such that slot in, or you can even download content with Nintendo Points.

Ju-on is nice and happy. The back of the box has a unicorn shooting rainbows out of its eyes. Higurashi's cover confuses me a tad. It's the third visual novel for the DS, based on a series known for its rather disturbing content. What with all the death and everything. Oh well. Two Fushigi Yuugi DS boxes, one game! It's a bit like Pokémon, but nothing like it at all.

Source: Aussie-Nintendo