Players Can Now Bomb It Up Against 8 Players With Online Multiplayer Combat And Mii Support
REDWOOD CITY, CA – September 29, 2008 – Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm for HUDSON SOFT, today announced the official launch of Bomberman Blast, an all-new Bomberman available for digital download on WiiWare for the Wii. Retaining many of the classic features that fans of the award-winning series have come to love, such as online multiplayer battles and numerous arenas, Bomberman Blast also incorporates exciting new gameplay elements like Mii support and 8-person online play.
“We are thrilled to deliver Bomberman Blast to the WiiWare gamers,”
said Sabine Duvall, Vice President of Product Development at Hudson Entertainment. “Hardcore fans and casual gamers alike will enjoy this new rendition of classic Bomberman created specifically for play on the Wii with three new Wii-specific items and Miis.”Bomberman Blast features 3 new shake-it-up items specifically created for play on the Wii. Each of these new items can be used by shaking the Wii Remote to add an entirely new aspect of play to multiplayer Bomberman battles. Players can use the Bomb Change to disguise themselves as a bomb, the Rocket to jump up high in the air to avoid bomb blasts and the Shield to block bomb blasts as long as they keep shaking the Wii Remote.
Director/Story: Keiichi Ono
Lead Design: Koh Kojima
Lead Level Design: Koji Hayashi
Lead Battle Design: Takaaki Kodera
Lead Car Action Design: Hiroshi Yoshida
Cinematics Director: Norihiro Takumi
Character Design/Production Design: Yohei Kikuchi
Composer: Yoshihiro Ike
Executive Producer: Hirohide Sugiura
Now, here’s the interesting part: Disaster also seems to be running on nFactor2, which iNiS was showing off at one point for the Xbox 360.
Update: The image posted before was actually a picture of the DS Lite’s screens. I’ve edited in a new picture, and supposedly the image above is what the screens will look like.
Obviously, this picture doesn’t look to be the whole DS pieced together…Just part of how it looks, meaning the screens. I’m still slightly skeptical that Nintendo even has a new DS in store. Would they really be willing to release a new product despite successful sales with the DS Lite?
Videos
Bomberman Blast Info Video
Art Style: ORBIENT Info Video
Mario Super Sluggers: Mike Torrez vs Bucky Dent
LEGO Batman: The Videogame Info Video
Rock Band 2 Info Video
Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked Info Video
DanceDanceRevolution: HOTTEST PARTY 2
N+ Info Video 2
We Cheer Info Video
Littlest Pet Shop Info Video
Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine Video
Digest Video
Demos (Expire 10/5)
Crosswords DS-Anagrams Demo
Spore Creatures Demo
Lock’s Quest
MySims Kingdom
Eternity’s Child
– still coming nto WiiWare
– delayed a bit due to difficulty in porting over from PC
– Alten8 (publisher) is working on it, and it should be out this year
– Challenge Mode has been added
Eternity’s Child 2: Retro Child
– cancelled GBA/SNES project coming to WiiWare
– Wiiimote in classic NES style
– new flying/gliding moves
– 2 player co-op
– new vehicles
– different endings depending on how many creatures you save
– story starts right after the end of the first game
– follow Angel as he is outcast from society. Due to a lack of wings, he is shunned by the people, and ends up living in a place inhabited by ‘Landians’. When Angel’s wings grow back, Landian hunters go after him as a target for death
– 16-bit style graphics
– Luc is the concept artist/producer, and he will handle some design aspects
– Shane Gil will be the director and lead designer
– development is underway
Cartoon series
Cartoon series
– Luc is actually working on a cartoon series as well, while he took a break from the game industry. No more details on that project at this time.
And…Here’s footage of the canceled GBA title.
With the release of Bomberman Blast on WiiWare, Hudson Entertainment will offer several online tournaments, including one that coincides with the game’s launch. The first tournament will be a live, online, head-to-head competition between 49 randomly-selected entrants, hosted by Hudson Entertainment. Registration for the tournament and an associated sweepstakes begins immediately and runs until 5:00 p.m. PST on October 3, 2008. The competition itself will take place starting at 2:00 p.m. PST on October 6, 2008. For more information on the upcoming tournaments and to register, players can visit www.Hudsonentertainment.com.
If anything, these tournaments will only add to the game. Like Mario Kart Wii, having new content (in this case, tournaments) available greatly helps to extend the replay value of a title.
Nintendo works in very mysterious ways. Half the time, fans are lucky if they even get one bit of “hidden” details through interviews with Nintendo employees. It is for this reason that Animal Crossing producer Katsuya Eguchi’s latest words are no surprise. “There are things that I’d like to say but I don’t think I can reveal anything right now,” he said.
Eguchi continued, discussing the possibility of a future DS. “As you know, Nintendo are always working on new hardware and looking to the future. If, say, we were working on a new handheld, one of the things that would happen is that we’d talk to the hardware teams and they’d tell us the sort of things that we’d be able to do in our games, then we can include some of those elements in our software. And conversely it works the other way too. We come up with ideas for things that we’d like to put in a game and say to the hardware people ‘it’d be great if we could do this’. It’s a back and forth relationship.”
Wii-kly Update
Two WiiWare Games and One Virtual Console Game Added to Wii Shop Channel
Auspicious debuts and the return of a classic franchise top the list of new additions to the Wii Shop Channel™ this week. Art Style™: ORBIENT™ is the first in a new game series from Nintendo, combining deep game play with atmospheric flair and simple, elegant controls that anyone can pick up and enjoy. With two more Art Style titles scheduled for release in October, this is your chance to be the first to enjoy this truly remarkable gaming experience.
Bomberman makes his WiiWare™ debut in Bomberman Blast, taking the frenzied multiplayer action the series is known for online. Or if you just feel like saving the galaxy again, take on the Machine in Super Turrican 2.
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:
