Entertain Rowdy Crowds With Amazing Circus Feats In This Motion-Based Family Game Due This June
EDISON, N.J., February 24, 2009 – Are you ready for the big time? Then step into the Big Top and realize your star potential as Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Go Play Circus Star for Wii™. Featuring a full collection of all-time favorite circus attractions, players can wow the crowd with death defying stunts, animal tricks and sleight of hand in 15 different events.
Developed by N-Fusion Interactive Entertainment Corp., Go Play Circus Star includes intuitive motion controls and integrates support for the Wii Balance Board™ accessory in a majority of games-balance on the tightrope and the backs of elephants, steer the human cannonball, dodge pie-throwing monkeys, jump to new acrobatic heights on the trampoline and much more! Players choose from a range of memorable circus performers and fabulous costumes before stepping into the arena to perform for the fans in aerial, animal and other classic circus events, including: Trapeze, Amazing Silks, Big Cat Taming, Rola Bola, Pony Dancing, Mile-High Stunt Diver, Knife Throwing and Juggling, among others. The more daring and death-defying the tricks, the more money you can earn as you win over the cheering crowd. But fumble in the air or miss a trick and the fans will boo in disapproval as they pellet you with tomatoes! Amazing performances will unlock additional events and new venues as you follow your circus career all the way to the Las Vegas Stadium. A fun game for both family and friends, Go Play Circus Star also lets players compete against up to three other aspiring circus performers.

Capcom ships Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop

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Wii Gamers Get Their Own Taste of Zombie-laden Insanity with Humor, Hordes of the Undead and a Variety of Weapons at the Player’s Disposal
SAN MATEO, Calif. — February 24, 2009 — Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, is pleased to announce that Dead Rising™: Chop Till You Drop ships today for the Wii™ home video game system. Taking advantage of the same proven technology that brought Resident Evil® 4 so successfully to Wii, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop delivers a more intuitive and interactive experience as players use the Wii Remote™ to shoot, slash and bludgeon their way through a zombie infested shopping mall, fighting for survival.
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop follows the harrowing tale of Frank West, an overly zealous freelance journalist on a hunt for the scoop of a lifetime. In pursuit of a juicy lead, he makes his way to the small suburban town of Willamette only to find that it has become overrun by zombies. Frank escapes to the local shopping mall, thinking it will be a bastion of safety but turns out to be anything but. A true struggle to survive the endless stream of enemies, players luckily have full reign of a realistic shopping centre and its varied stores offering an endless supply of real and makeshift weapons to fight off the flesh-hungry mob. If Frank is running low on health he can pay a visit to one of the many restaurants or cafes for a meal in order to restore his energy and continue the fight.

Hudson Entertainment’s Creepy Crawly FPS Onslaught Now Available for WiiWare

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First Ever First Person Shooter for WiiWare Gives Gamers New Reasons to Live… or Die!
San Mateo, Calif. – Feb. 23, 2009 – Warning! An infestation of giant robotic pests is coming your way in Onslaught, the new downloadable videogame published by Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm of HUDSON SOFT. Now available at the Wii™ Shop Channel for 1000 Wii Points™ and rated T for Teen by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), Onslaught challenges players to battle massive swarms of insect cyborgs in order to save a distant research colony.
“With the popularity of Wii increasing, core gamers are looking for titles that suit their interests and Onslaught gives them an exciting FPS experience with the innovative Wii controllers,” said Sabine Duvall, Vice President of Product Development at Hudson Entertainment. “In addition, the game gives casual players an affordable and accessible way to try out a first person shooter on WiiWare™.”

RE5 producer: Wii not best choice for pretty, powerful games

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A few months ago, Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi claimed that the Wii would be unable to handle the title screen of Resident Evil 5. Now most recently, Takeuchi has once again discussed Resident Evil 5 and has explained why the game isn’t being released for the Wii. He says that the development team was looking to create “the most powerful, most pretty game” and “the Wii isn’t the best choice.”

“When we set out to make ‘Resident Evil 5,’ the guys knew that if you want to make the most powerful, most pretty game, the Wii isn’t the best choice. From a business perspective it may have been, but after making this game we are happy with the choice we made.”

PitStop Productions receive critical acclaim for their House of the Dead: Overkill soundtrack

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Killer Sounds!
PitStop Productions receive critical acclaim for their House of the Dead: Overkill soundtrack
A game’s sound doesn’t often grab the headlines, but with the release of the SEGA blockbuster, House of the Dead: Overkill, PitStop Productions have placed themselves firmly in the top tier of Game Audio. The developer, Headstrong Games approached PitStop to provide script development, sound design and voice production for the zombie gore-fest. The results speak for themselves:
“..brilliant writing and voice acting”
Gamespot

ZbluCops teaser trailer

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More New Play Control! Metroid Prime screenshots

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Anno for Wii screenshots

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The official title of this game is probably Anno Create a New World which was rated by the OFLC a few weeks ago.

Heavy Metal frontman King Diamond to join the digital cast of Guitar Hero Metallica

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Sing, shred or wail as Mercyful Fate’s frontman this spring
Monday 23rd February/… Having united forces with rock ‘n’ roll legends Metallica for encore performances and recordings throughout the years, GRAMMY® Award-nominated heavy metal vocalist and Mercyful Fate frontman King Diamond will take to the cyber-stage with Metallica this spring in Activision Publishing Inc.’s Guitar Hero® Metallica®.
Fans, stagehands and groupies alike will have the opportunity to shred and drum with or wail as the digital King Diamond during performances of “Evil.” The song, which originally was recorded in 1983 and is one of the Mercyful Fate songs that comprise Metallica’s “Mercyful Fate” medley, was re-recorded by four of the five original band members for Guitar Hero Metallica. The recording session was overseen by guitarist Hank Shermann in the band’s native Denmark; after which King Diamond laid down his vocals in Dallas, Texas, and mixed the song with J.T. Longoria.