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– 4 members work for Semnat Studios
– Semnat Studios located in Colorado
– Eduardo the Samurai Toaster a run-and-gun game
– 1-4 players cooperating/shooting enemies
– Scoring system left out because developers felt it was unnecessary
– All players are toasters
– Game originally was to be a platformer
– No use of Wii’s unique controls – Devs didn’t want to include unnecessary motion controls (D-pad, three buttons for shooting, jumping, throwing/grabbing)
– Supports the Classic Controller
– Never planned for retail release
– Most of art drawn and scanned in
– Game almost finished – Hope to get the game out in the first quarter of 2009
– No price point yet, but want “to get it pretty low” – Nintendo can adjust price as they see fit
– Next move for Semnat Studios based on sales of Eduardo

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“Nintendo is intending to start the free-of-charge service in Japan in Spring 2009. We are considering expanding the service outside of Japan however we have no confirmed plans at present.” – Nintendo of Europe representative

Nintendo has expressed interest in bringing the channel overseas at some point and seems interested in fully promoting the content that will become available. There’s no reason to panic just yet for those living in Europe – Nintendo probably won’t let this channel slip by.

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Indie developer Semnat Studios is excited to finally announce the upcoming 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.

About Semnat Studios, LLC

Daniel Coleman and Robert DeMaria formed Semnat Studios in early 2005. Starting out as a hobby, the team began working on games in 2003. After a couple of projects (one of them being an early version of Eduardo) they decided to focus more seriously on game making. So for the next several years they would work their way up, now with the support of Ian Bowie and musician Raymond Gramke, designing numerous versions of Eduardo for the PC. After working on these prototypes for a few years they found the opportunity to make a version of Eduardo for the WiiWare service on Nintendo’s Wii system. In late 2007 they began development on a new Eduardo, learning from their experience on the PC versions

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Videos

Blue Dragon Plus Video 3
Personal Trainer: Math Info Video
Clone Wars Wii Deleted Scene Video
FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play Video 4
Wario Land: Shake It! Tips 4
Sandy Beach Info Video
Digest Video

Demos (Expire 1/11)

Personal Trainer: Cooking Lasagna Demo
Mystery P.I. – Portrait of a Thief
Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero
Kung Fu Panda: Legendary Warriors

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Sorted by system, 2008 totals, and LTD numbers

Nintendo DS 4,029,804 – 25,135,276
PSP 3,543,171 – 11,078,484
Wii 2,908,342 – 7.526.821
PS3 991,303 – 2,664,366
Xbox 360 317,859 – 866,167

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Christmas Wii sales are expected to be “up more than 100%” according to Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter. Patcher said, “I haven’t done the work for NPD yet, but my guess is that 360 sales were flat or up a little, PS3 sales down a little, and Wii sales up more than 100%. That would end up around 1.2 – 1.3 million 360s, around 700,000 PS3s and around 3 million (or more) Wiis.”

Official estimates from Patcher should be released early next week. The NPD sales numbers for December will be revealed on January 15.

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VC

Kirby’s Dream Land 3 – 48

WiiWare

Sandy Beach – 296

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