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‘Conquest’ Grants Players Freedom to Fight Epic ‘Rings’ Battles Any Way Desired
Guildford, UK., May 8, 2008 – Pandemic™ Studios, an award-winning developer of blockbuster video games, is proud to announce the development of The Lord of the Rings: Conquest™ for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, PC and Nintendo DS™ platforms. Pandemic Studios is a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS).

In a partnership with New Line Cinema, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is an action-packed game created by the same Pandemic Studios team behind the best-selling Star Wars Battlefront™ and Star Wars Battlefront™ II titles. Set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” universe as depicted by the Academy Award®-winning films, players will finally fight the entirety of these epic battles any way they want. In addition to crusading as the heroic forces of good, for the first time ever in a ‘The Lord of the Rings’ action title they’ll conquer Middle-earth while playing as the legions of Sauron’s evil army, including Cave-trolls, Oliphaunts, the Balrog and Sauron himself. The game is set for a global release in fall 2008.

“Our Pandemic Studios creative teams have years of expertise bringing giant battlefields to life,” says Andrew Goldman, Pandemic Studios co-founder and general manager. “We’ve always wanted to harness our experience in a fantasy universe with warriors, archers, mages and castle sieges. Of course, there is truly no better fantasy world to recreate than the enormity of Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ realm.”

“We’ll freely admit that we’re rabid fans of The Lord of the Rings fantasy,” says Josh Resnick, co-founder and general manager at Pandemic Studios. “Our experience creating massive, rich, action-packed games means that The Lord of the Rings: Conquest will give fans exactly what they want: full control of the blade, bow and magic to fight its epic battles any way they want – even if they choose to play from the evil side.”

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DS

Mega Man Star Force 2 Zerker X Saurian
Mega Man Star Force 2 Zerker X Ninja
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Pet Adoption Center

Wii

SPOGS Racing™
Space Invaders
LostWinds

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1. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) – 173,000 / 1,120,000
2. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) – 102,000 / 1,909,000
3. [WII] Link’s Bowgun Training (Nintendo) – 93,000
4. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 52,000 / 1,986,000
5. [NDS] Taiko no Tatsujin DS: Adventure of 7 Islands (Bandai-Namco) – 42,000 / 98,000
6. [NDS] Pokemon Ranger Batonage (Pokemon) – 31,000 / 508,000
7. [NDS] We’re Fossil Diggers (Nintendo) 27,000 / 84,000
8. [PS3] Senjou no Valkyria (Sega) – 24,000 / 102,000
9. [WII] Deca Sporta (Hudson) – 24,000 / 186,000
10. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) – 22,000 / 2,959,000

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One of the more welcomed features of the newly released Nintendo Channel is the ability to download DS games from the Wii straight to the Nintendo DS. While this function is appreciated, those who have sharing settings disabled will unfortunately miss out on downloadable DS content. For some strange reason, if you do not allow Nintendo to access your Wii data, DS Downloads will not be available on the channel. It’s questionable as to why Nintendo would do this, considering no information seems to be collected by Nintendo when downloading DS data. On Is data so important to Nintendo that they must bribe Wii owners in exchange for DS downloads?

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DS

Pet Shop Monogatari – 7/10
Metal Slug 7 – 7/17
Hello Kitty’s Panda Sports Stadium – 7/17
Kuwagata Tsumami Kuttsuke Tsumami Hako – 7/24
Touch de Retreat! Yawaraka Tank – 7/24
Kung Fu Panda – 7/24
Sim City DS (EA Best Hits) – 7/24
Kirarin Star Revolution 5 – 7/24
Windy x Wyndham – 7/24
Yokojiku de Learn World History – 7/XX
SIMPLE DS Series Vol. 40 THE Gaikai – 7/XX
Wantame Variety Channel – 8/7
Sangokushi Taisen: Ten – 8/7
Sangokushi Taisen: Ten Arcade Pack – 8/7
Mamegoma 2 ~House Child is Number One!~ – 2008
Tetsudou Musume DS – 2008
Dr. Slump Ararechan – 2008
Professor Layton and the Last Time Trip – 2008
The Conbini DS: Adult Management Training
Avalon Code – 2008

Wii

Biohazard 4 Wii Edition Best Price! – 5/29
Boom Blocks – 7/17
Samurai Spirits Ichiban Shoubu – 7/24
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 15 – 7/24
Kung Fu Panda – 2008
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsuu – 2008
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsuu DX Pack – 2008

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Avalon Code (DS)

– published by Marvelous and developed by Matrix
– 3D action RPG
– Fantasy
– Action takes place on the top screen, the bottom screen is book-like, but represents the inventory as well

Review scores

Luminous Arc 2 DS – 7777
Dungeon of Windaria DS – 5656
Famicom Wars (Battalion Wars 2) Wii – 7876

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DS Download Games

Brain Age 2 Demo
Flash Focus Demo
Crosswords DS – Crosswords Demo
Jam Sessions
Rayman Raving Rabids
Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends
Disney Friends
Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword

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– 4 game modes (bomb mode, versus mode, and survival mode announced)
– create combos
– bonus blocks for special powers

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Protothea
– From Ubisoft (2005 remake), another shooter
– Launch title – 1000 points
– WiiWare could end up with a lot of shooters
– Needs to be faster, more enemies

Castle of Shikigami III

– Great according to Daemon
– Vertical shooter

Boom Blox

– Fun, also good for kids
– A bit overpriced
– Good party game
– Currently embargoed, review tomorrow

– Upcoming events at Sega, Ubisoft, Konami – news out of those events probable
– IGN will have 1 exclusive, Friday – Craig: “Pretty big,” unannounced – Wii & DS game, based off distinct property – video, screenshots

Bionic Games
– There’s a rumor that they’ll be making a game published by Capcom, Capcom won’t comment
– Game the company is making seems more ambitious than other games
– Sci-Fi action-adventure
– Original game

– Retro hiring for positions they lost
– Have a big title down the road most likely

Storage on Wii
– Iwata slightly acknowledged the problem on Wii with storage
– At least “half-recognizing” the problem
– Maybe hear more at E3

3 most anticipated games on Wii, 360, DS, PS3
Matt: Wii – Wii Fit, Pikmin 3, Kid Icarus, 360: Resident Evil 5, Dead Space, Prince of Persia, Too Human, Street Fighter, DS: Guitar Hero, Trauma Center, Moon, PS3: LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2, Wipeout HD
Craig: Wii – Wii Fit, Animal Crossing, World of Goo, Multi: Ghostbusters, Ninja Gaiden 2, DS: Guitar Hero, Space Invaders Extreme, Bangai-O Bozon: Wii – Animales de Muerte, Kid Icarus, Animal Crossing, Tails of Symp., 360: Left for Dead, Street Fighter IV, Ninja Gaiden 2, RE5, DS: Super Dodgeball Brawlers, Guitar Hero, Trauma Center, PS3: Grid, LittleBigPlanet, Wipeout HD
Daemon: Wii – Wii Fit, Blast Works, Strongbad, Lost Winds, World of Goo, 360 – Bionic Commando (both versions), Fallout 3

– Still need to know about upcoming Wii software
– Craig, Matt think that E3 may end this year (companies dropping out, only 1 hall, etc.)

Iron Man (DS)
– Kinda cool, gameplay happens outside of screen
– Enemies attack off-screen, annoying
– Now super-awesome, but fun

– Lego Indiana, Line Rider, Friday announcement this week (DS/Wii coverage)

Reader mail
– WiiWare Tetris title is coming to WiiWare, online
– Etrian Odyssey 2 feels a lot like the first game, a few new things, holds it own
– FF:Tactics looked like an upgraded version of GBA – not a bad thing
– Tecmo Bowl Kickoff – apparently coming to Wii, haven’t officially announced it though
– Boom Blox is fun in single-player as well as multi-player – doesn’t have “blow-me-away” factor, but still a ton of fun
– Platinum Games (ex Clover Studios) hasn’t said what they’re up to
– Earthbound VC game will probably hit the Wii Shop Channel, but not right away – if it comes out, people need to buy it or more games like this won’t come out
– Factor 5 is not making Pilotwings for Wii – Factor 5 did say they’re be interested in making a flying game
– Donkey Kong Country has a better soundtrack than Megaman X
– Okami better than Mario Kart Wii, No More Heroes (Matt), Craig: No More Heroes is better
– Boom Blox is recommended to non-classic puzzle fans
– WiiWare limit: 43 megabyes, no way to get past that limit yet
– Iron Man Wii review coming out Tuesday
– Nintendo not producing more Wii units because they can’t product them fast enough
– Another game from a developer who couldn’t find a publisher (dark game) will hopefully be unveiled/talked about later this week
– IGN hasn’t seen the Bionic Studio game
– Konami’s projects on Wii will most likely be shown next week
– Blast Works (hopefully) will be great; Should be easy to use, not convoluted – can create all types of content – shooter aspects generic, but creation is great
– Second takes for reviews are added when the review feels like it (sometimes if people disagree, want to elaborate on some points)
– Launch feature on WiiWare is planned on IGN
– Not sure what Monster Games is doing
– Next Metroid game: Nintendo should take it back and do it themselves if not Retro again
– GTA4 – technically amazing, still has some issues like previous iterations
– We Love Golf on the shelves because of other games, Matt is still optimistic – not as excited about it (Matt)
– Scarface is a good GTA alternative on Wii

– More on Moon for DS coming – looking good
– More developers on podcast in coming weeks

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Wii Fit 4/5
Mario Kart 4/5
Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword 4/5
The World Ends With You 4.5/5
Emergency Mayhem 1/5

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