Anticipated Next Installment In The Multi-Million Selling Franchise Goes Gold!
EDISON, N.J., October 27, 2008 – Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced that Cooking Mama World Kitchen for Wii™ has gone gold and will be available on November 18. Developed by Cooking Mama Limited, the sequel to the celebrated Wii original features hilarious kitchen mini-games, all-new 3D graphics, more than 50 recipes and co-operative cooking play.
Cooking Mama World Kitchen lets players use the Wii Remote™ as a universal cooking utensil to chop, grate, slice and stir their way to culinary greatness. Players can complete 51 new recipes including French fries, parfait, Ratatouille and pancakes. In this latest installment of the beloved franchise, Mama and friends also benefit from a graphic upgrade to full 3D. Players can cook for Mama’s approval in Cook with Mama mode; prepare meals for any of eight international friends to taste in Let’s Cook mode; and team up with a friend to create meals together in the co-operative Cooking Contest mode. A fourth bonus mode is even unlockable once players complete all 51 recipes! Best of all, every mistake made during meal preparation results in a comedic mini-game that lets players use the Wii Remote in new motion based ways to save the recipe, and the day, with Mama and her little dog Max.
With Wii Music, those who do not find the game appealing will not be convinced otherwise at this point. Generally speaking, it seems as though most hardcore gamers will be staying away from the title. Shigeru Miyamoto, however, believes that there are some core gamers out there who will be attracted to what Wii Music brings to the table. “I think you’ll find people who are as hardcore playing Wii Music as any other game. I have found that, as a single player, you can spend over three hours arranging a single song. Since there’s 50 songs, simple math tells you that you can spend 150 hours playing it – and that’s just by yourself.”
That was quick, wasn’t it? Even though the latest Wii update borked the Homebrew Channel for those who have yet to install it, the homebrew community has been working hard to create a way to add the channel even with the new firmware. Previously, a method was provided as a quick alternative to those who already downloaded the Wii system update by installing the new IOS51 and Wii Shop Channel without other patches. However, now it is possible to avoid all of that work with a new beta version of the Homebrew Channel. Not only can the channel be added to the Wii for those with the new firmware (through a new beta version), but SDHC is now supported with beta 9.
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Football Director DS is the perfect stocking filler
London, UK – 27 October, 2008 – Is your favourite football club far from winning the league? Are they languishing at the bottom of the league table? This Christmas you have a genuine chance to make things better. Take on the job of a football director and lead your team to trophy wins. ‘Football Director DS’ is the first football management game for the Nintendo DS™ console allowing total control over the 92 English & Welsh Football and Premier League teams. It’ll be one of the most desired gifts in every man’s stocking. Fabio Capello would love it!
Select from over 3,800 players, hunt for a bargain on the transfer market, negotiate contracts, set tactics and strategies, and do all of the day-to-day activities of the football director.
Fans of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing™ franchise are some of the most loyal in the world. To reward them for their devotion to these community-building games and to get players fired up for the Nov. 16 release of Animal Crossing™: City Folk for Nintendo’s Wii™ console, Nintendo is hosting an outrageous animal costume contest.
Critter lovers can show their creativity by submitting the most original images of animals dressed in costumes or even as characters from the hit video game franchise Animal Crossing. The entrants of the top 50 photos in the “Animal Crossing Welcome Waggin’ Costume Contest” will win membership to the exclusive Welcome Waggin’ Committee. All committee members will receive a Wii video game system, a copy of Animal Crossing: City Folk, a Wii Speak™ microphone, access to exclusive information about the game and more.