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November 18th, 2009 at 12:15am
Under Wii / Nintendo
If you live in Boston or San Francisco and are curious enough about EA Sports Active to go into a retail store devoted entirely to the fitness game, you’re in luck! And maybe you’ve also learned something about the amount of curiosity you have about EA Sports Active. On November 15, EA opened two EA Sports Active stores, featuring demo units of both Active and the new EA Sports Active: More Workouts, “Active Trainers” who will show attendees how to use the game, and even a supply of games to lend out to visitors so they can try it at home. The stores also take reservations for workout sessions. They’ll be open until December 14.
EA invited some bloggers to the Boston location for a tour and a workout. Not us, but fitness bloggers. You know, the people that someone might listen to if they cared about being healthy. Luckily for us, those bloggers took plenty of pictures of the inside of the Boston store. If you’d like to visit, the addresses of the stores are posted after the break.
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EA Sports Active stores open in Boston and San Francisco originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: casual, ea-sports, ea-sports-active, ea-sports-active-more-workouts, promotion, Wii / Nintendo
By Mister-X
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November 16th, 2009 at 03:58pm
Under Xbox 360
Xbox Live Arcade shows a belligerent disregard for productivity this week, hosting a pair of light puzzle games that are sure to weigh heavily on your mind during working hours. Why not have a go (and then just one more) at Gyromancer, the gem-shifting collaboration between Square Enix and PopCap? The cost of entry is 1200
($15). If it’s a cohesive concoction of puzzles, RPG elements and item collection, your departure is likely to be at no point.
PlayFirst is also serving up an XBLA version of Diner Dash for 800 ($10). The culinary-themed time management game should be an ideal snack in between gorging on Dragon Age: Origins, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and … hmm. How good are you at time management?
This Wednesday: XBLA takes you out for Diner and a Gyromantic date originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: casual, diner-dash, gyromancer, playfirst, popcap, puzzle, rpg, square-enix, xbla, xblawednesday
By Mister-X
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October 7th, 2009 at 06:30pm
Under PSP
Santa Monica-based development studios interested in “medium casual video game development” for Sony handhelds, watch out! There’s a new cat in town and, even though it lacks opposable thumbs, this kitten can code.
Enter: Broodworks, a new independent studio headed by former Sony Santa Monica executive producer and director of internet development Shannon Studstill. Given Studstill’s previous position with Sony and the location of Broodworks, superannuation surmises that Broodworks is a second-party studio working closely with SCEA. We’ll keep you posted as the story (and the company’s website) develops.
[Via superannuation]
Broodworks: new Santa Monica studio with focus on Sony handhelds originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: broodworks, casual, santa-monica, SCEA, sony-santa-monica
By Mister-X
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September 11th, 2009 at 02:15am
Under DS
Majesco’s first trailer for Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop features one aspect of the Cooking Mama series we don’t expect to see in the actual DS game: the voice acting, which is as endearing as ever.
The trailer features the first look at the game’s new shopping mode, which appears as a top-down RPG-style presentation. It also features flashes of the familiar cooking gameplay, including the return of the most ridiculous recipe from Mamas past — instant ramen. Really?
For the most part, it looks like Cooking Mama, which we’ve yet to become tired of, so we don’t mind. And now with the addition of food with faces, we don’t think we will ever get tired of it.
Cooking Mama 3 trailer, fresh from the oven originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 12:15pm
Under Xbox 360
Great news: Holiday shopping for that uncle or aunt you don’t know that well but think might have a game system just got a lot easier. The Scene It? franchise is branching out this holiday season from the 360, bringing Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! to the Wii and PS3, as well as to Microsoft’s box.
As an added bonus, the release makes no mention of special controllers for the Wii or PS3 version of the game, so hopefully Uncle Ernie won’t be able to guess the gift from the size of the package.
Scene It? comes to Wii, PS3 this holiday originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 26th, 2009 at 08:30pm
Under Xbox 360
Peggle, after releasing pretty much everywhere else to critical acclaim, came out on Xbox Live Arcade this March, to additional critical acclaim, thanks to its new multiplayer modes. Now Peggle fans intent on either playing the game only on Xbox or on buying every Peggle release will have something else to look forward to as PopCap has announced the XBLA release of the sequel, Peggle Nights, coming by way of an XBLA expansion for the original Peggle.
Like other releases of Peggle Nights, the XBLA version includes a new Peggle Master named Marina, 60 new levels, and 60 new challenges and will be available to all Peggle players as a Title Update. Most importantly to some status-obsessed gamers, Peggle Nights will include three new Achievements, worth a total of 50 points.
Peggle Nights will be available sometime this fall for an undisclosed price.
Peggle Nights falling into XBLA originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: casual, expansion, peggle, peggle-nights, popcap, puzzle, xbla
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August 18th, 2009 at 11:15am
Under Wii / Nintendo
Originally discovered in a trademark, Ubisoft has announced Just Dance, a Wii game developed by Ubisoft Paris. While we had some interest in the title due to the possibility of it being Q? Entertainment’s rhythm game project, the announcement shows that it … isn’t.
Just Dance invites players to learn and mimic “real dance moves set to classic and modern songs across all genres they know and love,” as CEO Yves Guillemot put it. Among the 30 licensed tracks: dance classics like “Groove Is In The Heart,” “Pump Up the Jam,” and “U Can’t Touch This.”
But … how do you do the MC Hammer dance in this game? Do you attach the Wiimote to your leg? Does it come with special parachute pants with a pocket for the controller?
Ubisoft officially reveals ‘Just Dance,’ for people who don’t mind looking like this originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: casual, dance, just-dance, music, ubisoft-paris, Wii / Nintendo
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July 7th, 2009 at 12:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
The controversial “Demo Play” feature devised by Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo won’t just be limited to New Super Mario Bros. Wii and other console-based adventures. A blurb in Japan’s Nikkei newspaper notes that the feature, which allows players to skip difficult areas and watch them played automatically, will also be used in portable games in the future. Nikkei referred to it as a “skip functionality” or “skip feature.”
Nikkei notes that this feature is designed for “high-speed action games,” so presumably you won’t be able to let Dr. Kawashima step in and count the number of people who just ran out of the house (we hate that one), nor will you be able to make the Pokémon start choosing themselves mid-battle.
[Via Kotaku]
Nintendo’s ‘Demo Play’ planned for handheld games as well originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 11:15am
Under DS
Nintendo has made a deal with UK TV station Five to fully fund one of its new shows, MCV reports. The Advertiser-Funded Programming deal means that Nintendo will pay for eight episodes of the new Britain’s Best Brain show, which subjects contestants to five tasks, each designed to test a different brain function: “memory, co-ordination, numeracy, recognition and risk.”
Obviously, we suspect Nintendo will use this opportunity as a promotional platform for the Brain Training series. If it were, say, Capcom looking for Britain’s best brain, there would be cause for concern. MCV notes that in-show product placement is illegal, meaning that Nintendo will have to relegate the DS mentions to ads.
Nintendo sponsors British game show originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: advertising, brain-age, britains-best-brain, casual, five, television
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July 1st, 2009 at 03:45pm
Under DS
Listen up, musical theater majors! Your time of reckoning approaches. Sure, your friends can easily best you at Halo 3 or Call of Duty 4 — but in a short while, a title which will finally allow you to invoke your unique skill set will hit store shelves. We speak, of course, of Grease. The movie. The video game. For Wii and DS.
505 Games recently picked up the rights to adapt the musical film in conjunction with Paramount Digital Entertainment. The game will put players in the gaudy, unfortunate shoes of one of Sandy or Danny’s cronies, forcing them to sing and dance using motion controls, microphones or the DS touch screen. Further gameplay details or a release date for Grease are currently unknown. C’mon, 505! Tell us more! Tell us more!
Go Grease Lightning (to the Wii and DS) originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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