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Unique RPG Puts Massive World of Quests, Epic Battles and Multiplayer Action in the Palm of Your Hand

Bristol, U.K., January 22, 2009 – Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Dawn of Heroes for Nintendo DS™. Developed by Wicked Studios, Dawn of Heroes is a tactical role playing game that combines classic RPG concepts—including character development, epic combat, quests and puzzles—with a humorous style. The game also supports head-to-head multiplayer action and the ability to trade collected items, two features designed to build a community of worldwide heroes.

Featuring more than 50 playable missions with branching paths and side quests, Dawn of Heroes takes players to the endangered Kingdom of Brimthule. Brimthule’s King sacrificed himself to entomb the great beast Ragnakore within stone. Now players must save the kingdom by battling the curses, monsters and misfortunes that have ensued following the King’s tragic demise. Utilizing a streamlined user interface that allows players to command all aspects of their adventure with the Touch Screen and stylus, the game contains 25 playable classes from six unique factions and a multitude of enemies. In addition, the massive world of Brimthule and its unique inhabitants are rendered in detailed 3D graphics that help bring the adventure to life.

Dawn of Heroes for Nintendo DS™ is expected to release later this year in Europe. For additional information about Majesco’s exciting line of products, please visit www.majescoentertainment.com and www.majescoeurope.com

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* Third-quarter sales up 13% to €508 million.

* Update on the games release schedule.
* Full-year 2008-09 targets adjusted.
* Initial targets for 2009-10.

London, UK – January 22, 2009 – Today, Ubisoft reported its sales for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2008.

Sales

Sales for the third quarter of 2008-09 came to €508 million, up 12.9%, or 17.0% at constant exchange rates, compared with the €450 million recorded for the same period of 2007-08. For the first nine months of fiscal 2008-09 sales totaled €852 million versus €711 million in the corresponding prior-year period, representing an increase of 19.8%, or 24.8% at constant exchange rates.

Third-quarter sales came in slightly higher than the guidance of approximately €500 million issued when Ubisoft released its sales figures for the second quarter of 2008-09. This performance was primarily attributable to:

* The diversity and quality of Ubisoft’s games line-up for the holiday period, with a targeted offering for each type of consumer.
* A solid showing from franchise titles launched during the quarter, particularly Far Cry® 2 and Rayman Raving Rabbids® TV Party which generated sell-in sales of 2.9 million and 1.5 million units respectively and offset the impact of a slower take-off for Prince of Persia® (2.2 million units).
* The creation of a new multi-million units selling franchise – Shaun White Snowboarding – which was the quarter’s number two sports game in the United States and recorded 2.3 million units sell-in worldwide.
* The ongoing success of the Group’s casual games, notably the very robust performance turned in by the Imagine® range fueled by the success of Imagine Teacher and Imagine Wedding Designer. For 2008, Ubisoft’s market share for Nintendo DSTM games is 13.5% in Europe and 12,0% in the United States.

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Going to bump this page to the front for a bit

Well wasn’t that fun? Access to Nintendo Everything has been cut off for almost two days. The issue stemmed from a new motherboard/ installation of new ram. Without getting into all of the mumbo jumbo, let’s just say that Nintendo Everything went “kaboom.”

Though, one of our technical guys has been working his tail off to get us back online. So all the gratitude goes towards him!

I also wanted to mention that such a long period of downtime is a rare occurrence. We might go down for a short while in a few hours, but I’m not expecting anything catastrophic if all goes well. I apologize that the site was down for however long it was, but I’m glad to be back!

I obviously missed out on posting a ton of Nintendo news. I haven’t exactly decided what I’m going to post up yet, but bear with me. Starting today, I’ll just try to add anything I can to the site.

Now without further ado, I’ll get back to updating the site.

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Locomotive Games, owned by THQ, had begun to work on Stuntman: Demolition for the Wii. The PS3/360 saw the release of Stuntman: Ignition, so the series would be able to continue and arrive on Nintendo’s system. The game would feature an ongoing story and characters. However, disappointing sales of Stuntman: Ignition caused THQ to cancel production on the game in addition to ending the franchise.

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Cambridge, Mass. – January 20, 2009 – Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of six new tracks to the Rock Band® Music Store catalog of downloadable content for Wii™ home videogame console from Nintendo. The line up includes “March of the Pigs” and “The Collector” from industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails, “I Fought the Law” from English punk rock band the Clash and “Rockaway Beach” from the infamous punk rock band Ramones. The offering also features two exclusive 2008 Rock Band re-recordings of “Margaritaville” and “Volcano” from singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.

All six tracks are part of the Rock Band® Music Store catalog of downloadable content already released to owners of Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION® 3 computer entertainment system. Wii fans can expect a rollout of the previously released downloadable content every week until the entire back catalogue of more than 500 songs is available. In addition, the regularly scheduled future DLC releases for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 system will also be available for Rock Band 2 Wii owners starting in February.

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Pole’s Big Adventure (Sega) – WiiWare – 3rd Feb 2009
– Famicom style 2D action platformer
– Filled with in-jokes and gags which you have to discover in the stages
– Comedy action game

Crystal Defenders R1 (Square Enix) – WiiWare – 27th Jan 2009 – 1000 WiiPoints
– Port of the FF themed tower defense game on cellphones and iPod
– PSN and XBLA versions will be coming later

I also thought I should mention that Famitsu had what will probably be Marvelous’ “countdown game.” It’s only for the PSP – Sorry folks!

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The latest Famitsu review scores are as follows:

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (DS, Square Enix): 8 / 7 / 7 / 7 – (29/40)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Wii, Square Enix): 8 / 7 / 7 / 8 – (30/40)
Ninja Blade (Xbox 360, From Software): 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 – (32/40)
World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 (PSP, Konami): 8 / 8 / 7 / 8 – (31/40)
Hirameki Action: Chibikko Wagyan no Daiki na Bouken (NDS, Bandai Namco): 8 / 8 / 7 / 7 – (30/40)
Tom Clancy’s EndWar (Xbox 360, Ubisoft): 8 / 9 / 8 / 9 – (34/40)
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 (PSP, Bandai Namco): 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 – (32/40)
Annie no Atelier: Sera Shima no Renkijutsushi (NDS, Gust): 7 / 7 / 7 / 7 – (28/40)
Tomb Raider Underworld (PS3/Xbox 360, Eidos): 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 – (32/40)
Soul Eater: Battle Resonance (PSP, Bandai Namco): 7 / 6 / 7 / 6 – (26/40)
Soul Eater: Battle Resonance (PS2, Bandai Namco): 6 / 5 / 6 / 5 – (22/40)
Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (NDS, Cyberfront): 6 / 8 / 7 / 7 – (28/40)