EA ships award-winning Dead Space Extraction
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Players Experience the Panic Before the Terror in Visceral Games’ Critically-Acclaimed Wii-Exclusive Action Horror Prequel
Redwood City, CA – September 25, 2009 – Visceral Games™, an award-winning studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that Dead Space™ Extraction has shipped to retail in Europe and will be shipping in North America on September 29th. Designed exclusively for the Wii™, Dead Space Extraction is the first title to ship under Visceral Games’ new studio name. Dead Space Extraction is the prequel to last year’s critical darling Dead Space, winner of over 70 international critics awards and widely recognized for evolving the action horror genre. Dead Space Extraction is already following in its predecessor’s footsteps, earning a perfect “5-out-of-5” stars from GamePro, whose review said that “Extraction is one hell of a ride… well paced and directed; the story is strong and the gun fights are satisfying.”“Dead Space Extraction has been such a rewarding project for many different reasons,” said Steve Papoutsis, Executive Producer on Dead Space Extraction. “We have successfully brought Dead Space’s trademark action horror experience to a new platform while maintaining our studio’s high standards for quality and polish. Dead Space Extraction will be one of the defining action horror games for the Wii.”
Top 5 game sales worldwide (Amazon)
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Nintendo Wii
North America:
1. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
2. Ghostbusters: The Video Game — Slimer Edition (Atari)
3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
4. The Beatles: Rock Band (MTV Games)
5. EA Sports Active (EA Sports)
Japan:
1. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
2. Forever Blue 2: Umi no Yobigoe (Nintendo)
3. Monster Hunter 3 Classic Controller Bundle (Capcom)
4. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
5. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
UK:
1. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
2. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
3. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
4. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts)
5. Wii Play (Nintendo)
Nintendo DS
North America:
1. Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (Konami)
2. Scribblenauts (Warner Bros.)
3. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Nintendo)
4. Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story (Nintendo)
5. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
Japan:
1. Love Plus (Konami)
2. Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo)
3. Dragon Quest IX (Square Enix)
4. Pocket Monsters: Heart Gold (Nintendo)
5. Pocket Monsters: Soul Silver (Nintendo)
UK:
1. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (Nintendo)
2. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo)
3. Peppa Pig: The Game (Ubisoft)
4. Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (Disney)
5. Junior Brain Trainer (Avanquest)
Dead Space Extraction screenshots/art
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EDGE review scores
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Halo 3:ODST – 9
Dead Space Extraction – 8
Scribblenauts – 7
Demon’s Souls – 9
Section 8 – 7
Mini Ninjas – 7
Katamari Forever – 7
Need For Speed: Shift – 8
WET – 5
FIFA 10 – 9
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 – 7
Motorstorm Arctic Edge – 7
Gran Turismo PSP – 7
Guitar Hero 5 – 7
The Beatles: Rock Band – 7
Zuma’s Revenge – 8
Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box – 7
Blood Bowl – 3
Metroid Prime Trilogy – 8
Final Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles boxart
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Media Create hardware sales (9/14 – 9/20)
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Media Create has published the latest hardware sales figures from Japan. The results are below.
DSi – 66,073
PS3 – 51,055
PSP – 21,073
Wii – 16,698
DS Lite – 13,555
Xbox 360 – 4,965
PS2 – 2,723
For comparison’s sake, here are the numbers from September 7 (last week).
DSi – 66,498
PS3 – 55,344
PSP – 18,375
Wii – 17,568
DS Lite – 11,179
Xbox 360 – 7,568
PS2 – 2,612
Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles – TGS pics
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Limited-Edition Wii Sports Resort Bundle Features Two Wii MotionPlus Accessories
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REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Wii Sports Resort™ is all about getting multiple people involved in friendly sporting competitions. Starting Oct. 12, consumers will have even more incentive to get in on the fun when Nintendo releases a special, limited-edition bundle of the Wii Sports Resort game and not one but two Wii MotionPlus™ accessories, which bring enhanced precision to games.
The bundle will be available at a suggested retail price of $59.99. Typically, Wii Sports Resort comes with a single Wii MotionPlus unit at a suggested retail price of $49.99, and additional Wii MotionPlus units are available at a suggested retail price of $19.99.
Nintendo Download (9/24, Europe/Australia)
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VC
R-Type
DSiWare
Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam
WiiWare
You, Me and the Cubes
Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2
Sexy Poker