505 Games Announces Global Alliance with Paramount Digital Entertainment to Develop A Video Game Based on the Iconic “Grease” Film
LOS ANGELES – July 1st 2009 – 505 Games today announced it has secured the global publishing rights for a video game based on the original high school musical, Grease. Working in collaboration with Paramount Digital Entertainment, 505 Games will oversee and publish a Grease video game for the Nintendo Wii™ and Nintendo DS™.The Grease video game will allow players to sing and dance alongside Danny, Sandy, The Pink Ladies and the T-Birds. The game will take full advantage of the Nintendo Wii’s motion-sensing controls and microphone, and the DS’s touch screen to create exciting gameplay for casual and family gamers eager to experience Grease in a new medium.
– Coming out in 2009
– No announcement for North America yet
– Hero is able to use magical belt
– Belt allows you to transform into monsters you collect
– Conversing with people in animal form will influence how they respond to you
– Most of the games takes place in a big tree
– Called Hikari no Yon Senshi: Final Fantasy Gaiden (Four Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden)
– Menu-driven DS RPG
– Play as 14-year-old boy, needs to save a princess
– Starts with your birthday, King summons you
– King’s daughter kidnapped by a witch
– Can have parties up to four
– Battle system doesn’t have MP, has Charge command
– Some customization – type of equipment changes character appearance
– Releasing this Fall in Japan
– No relation to Game Boy’s Final Fantasy Adventure
No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle may very well be the last game in the franchise to be developed for Wii. The latest edition of EDGE features an interview with Goichi Suda, who is the director of the game. In the past, Suda 51 has expressed interest in bringing the series to other platforms, going as far as to say that, “it’d be good to have a chance to release the game on other consoles.” Now Suda has gone even farther with his words and shared with the magazine that No More Heroes will most likely be making a transition to “a new platform.”
“I think this is the last No More Heroes that is going to be developed on Wii. To expand No More Heroes to new possibilities, we need a new platform. Wii is a great platform, but we’ve done everything we can with it now.”
London (1st July 2009) – Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, today announces that PUZZLE BOBBLE GALAXY™ a brand new release from TAITO®, based on the classic video game franchise Bubble Bobble, will be released across PAL territories on 28th of August, 2009 exclusively on the Nintendo DS™ handheld system.
PUZZLE BOBBLE GALAXY is a match-three arcade puzzle game starring the loveable Bub and Bob dinosaur brothers from the hugely popular Bubble Bobble game. Players will embark on a magnificent adventure set in space as they help battle against powerful enemies who are trying to rule the entire universe. True to the original classic, players will shoot balls from the cannon located at the bottom of the screen, matching colours with the gaggle of bubbles at the top. Patience and perseverance not included but, the rewards will be generous!
The latest EDGE review scores are as follows:
Prototype – 8
Arma 2 – 7
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite – 7
The Conduit – 4
Battlefield 1943: Pacific – 9
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings – 3
Overlord 2 – 6
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood – 7
Fight Night Round 4 – 8
Red Faction: Guerilla – 7
Killing Floor – 6
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? – 4
Another Code R – 4
Bonsai Barber – 7