Family Friendly Title Transforms City Streets into Competitive Urban Playgrounds This Fall
EDISON, N.J., March 9, 2009 – Lace up your sneakers and get ready to hit the pavement as Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, announces Go Play City Sports for Wii™. The latest title in Majesco’s recently announced Go Play line of motion-based video games for the whole family, Go Play City Sports recreates the experience of playing sports in a vast urban playground where manhole covers double as home plate. The all-new sports compilation allows players to compete against the best neighborhood athletes in six classic games, including stickball, kickball, handball, rooftop hockey, shootout soccer and jump rope.
Go Play City Sports takes full advantage of the Wii’s capabilities in order to bring these timeless games from the streets to the living room. Players use the intuitive movements of the Wii Remote™ to rule the courts and stake their claim as king of the block. However, just like on the real street, they must dodge obstacles like manhole covers, fire hydrants and parked cars as they try to earn trophies and unlock items such as new courts and equipment. The game supports up to four players in both head-to-head or team-based games, while single player mode allows gamers to fully explore the expansive urban environment. With fully customizable characters and Wii Balance Board™ support, Go Play City Sports is a fun, competitive game for players both young and old!
Resident Evil 5 – 7
Empire: Total War – 9
Shellshock 2: Blood Trails – 2
Afro Samurai – 5
Stormrise – 4
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – 7
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand – 7
Tom Clancy’s HAWX – 6
Time Hollow – 6
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride – 8
Resistance Retribution – 6
Cryostasis – 6
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix – 7
Henry Hatsworth in The Puzzling Adventure – 8
New Series Brings Nintendo GameCube Favorites to Wii with Enhanced Motion Controls
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Unique motion-sensing controls have already helped to make Wii™ the nation’s top-selling video game console. With today’s launch of the New Play Control! series from Nintendo, Wii owners can use those same fun, intuitive controls to discover – or rediscover – some of the coolest and most well-received games made famous on the Nintendo GameCube™ system, each updated with a new wireless, active control scheme and a widescreen presentation.
New Play Control! Pikmin™ and New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis™ are the first two games in this new series, taking all the action and imagination of the originals and giving them a new control scheme. Not only do both new games make use of Nintendo’s simple-to-use Wii Remote™ controller, but they’re also presented for the first time ever in an eye-pleasing 16:9 widescreen format.
Wii-kly Update
One WiiWare Game and One Virtual Console Game Added to Wii Shop Channel
Remember when Grandma used to mark your height on the wall every so often, just to see how fast you were growing? Well, if the Wii™ Shop Channel had its own growth chart, she’d be impressed at how the selection of great games keeps getting bigger and bigger each week. Take a look at the latest additions and you’ll discover a pair of different yet equally engaging titles: a thrilled-packed WiiWare™ shooter and a classic SEGA adventure for the Virtual Console™. Thanks to this steady stream of new games, your own library ought to be growing up fast, too.
Nintendo adds new and classic games to the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week’s new games are:
“Hello! I hope you missed us. Sorry for the break. There’s a reason we’ve been MIA for the last couple of weeks. No, we’re still not dead–we’re officially in crunch mode and trying our best to wrap up Cave Story! If all goes well, you’ll be playing Cave Story by the beginning of May or even end of April. Instead of a simple one-liner, we wanted to update everyone with a relatively complete item list of what we’ve been working on. You haven’t seen updates free me because I’ve been busy typing away at code. On the programming front since the last update, I have fixed up the .org player and made some additional fixes to the graphics. Also, I’ve spent some time working on the DLC support which Ty just mentioned, making sure that the game will be able to support all the new content that we have planned over the months following the initial release. Oh by the way, we’re also building the speech synthesizer that will sing lyrics over each song while the playing the game!” – Cave Story blog
Famicom – 500 Wii Points
– Clu Clu Land (Nintendo)
Mega Drive – 600 Wii Points
– The Super Shinobi II (Sega)
According to Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia, gamers may see the release of an upgraded Wii before 2012, which is when this console generation is expected to end (at the earliest). This would not be an entirely new system but rather, a Wii 1.5.
“It is possible Nintendo releases a slightly updated machine without a full upgrade – a Wii 1.5, if you will.”
This is not a completely outlandish idea, as one could argue that the DSi is a DS Lite 1.5 in that it is not an entirely new system.
Bhatia also mentioned that third-parties will begin to take share from Nintendo this year.
“Third-party publishers are aligning more towards the Wii console this year given the large (and rising) installed base and lower development costs for the Wii console…We expect third parties to take share from Nintendo.”
Nintendo Wii
North America:
1. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Capcom)
2. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
4. Wii Play (Nintendo)
5. My Fitness Coach (Ubisoft)
Japan:
1. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
2. One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 2 – Awake Valiant (Bandai)
3. New Wii Play Control! Pikmin (Nintendo)
4. Taiko: Drum Master Wii (Namco)
5. Wii Sports (Wii)
Europe:
1. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
2. My Fitness Coach (Ubisoft)
3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
4. The House of the Dead: Overkill (Sega)
5. Wii Play (Nintendo).
Nintendo DS
North America:
1. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
2. Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
3. Mario Party DS (Nintendo)
4. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (Nintendo)
5. Disney’s Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (Disney)
Japan:
1. Learn Bookkeeping The DS Way: LEC Nissho – Level 3 (Square Enix)
2. 7th Dragon (Sega)
3. Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (Nintendo)
4. Prince of Tennis Doubles no Oji-Sama: Girls, Be Gracious! (Konami)
5. Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 1st Love Plus – Luxury CD Edition (Konami)
Europe:
1. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo)
2. 100 Classic Book Collection (Nintendo)
3. Mystery Case Files: Millionheir (Nintendo)
4. Puzzler Collection (Ubisoft)
5. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? (Nintendo)
To celebrate the release of Resident Evil 5 on Friday, March 13th, Capcom and our friends at GameStop are throwing a launch party! On the eve of the launch, Thursday the 12th, meet us at Union Square in San Francisco to usher in Resident Evil 5. The event kicks off at 8pm and ends at midnight when you will be able to pick up your game- in-between we’ll have plenty going on to keep you busy. For starters, there will be a whole tent dedicated to the game where tons of kiosks will be set up and players will get a chance to get their hands on the game before grabbing it at midnight. You’ll also have the chance to win prizes and giveaways, meet the development team including co-producers, Takeuchi-san and Kawata-san and hang out with the motion capture/voice actors that played Chris, Sheva and Josh. To top it all off there will be new game announcements, stage shows, and Resident Evil activities all through out the night.
In order to guarantee you get the game at midnight, please stop by the Powell Street GameStop before the party to get your game transaction processed. You will need to get your proof of purchase wrist band and receipt for the GameStop store in order to pick-up your game at the party.
Also make sure to get there early as there will be limited space and we want to make sure you all get to enjoy the party!
Just to re-cap the details: be at Union Square in San Francisco by 8:00pm. I highly recommend getting there EARLY. We’ll party until midnight, then you can get your copy of the game with proof of purchase at the Powell St. GameStop. See you there!
