MAJESCO ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES 'COOKING MAMA 4: KITCHEN MAGIC' FOR NINTENDO 3DS AND 'CAMPING MAMA: OUTDOOR ADVENTURES' FOR NINTENDO DS
Join the original digital chef as she makes her debut on Nintendo 3DS with Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic! From new recipes and ways to play to fresh kitchen activities and dish combinations, the iconic kitchen cutie has some tricks up her sleeve that will magically transform kitchen newbies into master culinary artists! Slice, dice, knead, toss and flip your way through more than 200 unique Touch Screen mini-games as you cook in brand new ways with the Nintendo 3DS gyroscope: crack eggs, flip pans, balance plates and much more. Earn bronze, silver and gold medals while mixing up over 60 recipes that range from side dishes to full meals. Organize, decorate and clean your kitchen while watching surprising 3D events unfold as you prepare each meal.
Mama develops her wilderness skills in Camping Mama: Outdoor Adventures that features 100 different stylus based games across a broad range of challenges: craft a fishing pole, use it to fish then cook your catch; capture wild chickens for a tasty egg breakfast; set up your tent; collect exotic insects and much more. Both girls and boys can enjoy fun outdoor activities like rock climbing, spelunking, rowing and tree climbing as they navigate 38 different levels that span forests, mountains and seas. Would-be campers can choose to play as either the son or daughter with Mama or Papa providing guidance depending on the challenge. With customization options and collectible play, Camping Mama lets everyone go wild in the great outdoors!
Developed by Cooking Mama Limited, Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic for Nintendo 3DS and Camping Mama: Outdoor Adventures for Nintendo DS are both expected to release this fall.
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You can now fight with The Red Ring of Death
Battle agisnt The Red Ring of Death, developed by FourthDimensional, is a platform/sidescrolling shooter that places your tank in charge of stopping a RRoD meltdown. Per the game's narrative: "Prevent the game console from crashing. Pilot the Binary Utility Device to the CPU before a Red Ring of Death occurs. Beware user inputs and bugs in the software. Hurry B.U.D. there is no time to stop!"
The game is 80 Microsoft Points ($1). Check the gameplay video below
Noted by Kotaku
The Red Ring of Death
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Nintendo's live coverage of E3 Expo 2011 Presentation
http://e3.nintendo.com/
A live webcast of Nintendo's E3 Expo 2011 media presentation will begin at 9 a.m. Pacific time (GMT -7) on Tuesday, June 7. Immediately following the presentation, fans can enjoy additional Nintendo Network coverage on the site, including interviews, game trailers and special video segments. A variety of exclusive content will also be available on the Nintendo® Channel, which is accessible to anyone with a Wii™ console that is connected to the Internet.
The E3 Expo, scheduled to take place June 7-9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is among the year's biggest events for the global video game industry. Exclusive Nintendo Network programming will be viewable at http://e3.nintendo.com/ and on the Nintendo Channel throughout the week, offering the latest information and updates on Nintendo's announcements.
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A live webcast of Nintendo's E3 Expo 2011 media presentation will begin at 9 a.m. Pacific time (GMT -7) on Tuesday, June 7. Immediately following the presentation, fans can enjoy additional Nintendo Network coverage on the site, including interviews, game trailers and special video segments. A variety of exclusive content will also be available on the Nintendo® Channel, which is accessible to anyone with a Wii™ console that is connected to the Internet.
The E3 Expo, scheduled to take place June 7-9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is among the year's biggest events for the global video game industry. Exclusive Nintendo Network programming will be viewable at http://e3.nintendo.com/ and on the Nintendo Channel throughout the week, offering the latest information and updates on Nintendo's announcements.
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The attacks on PSN cost Sony lost.....
Guess how much money Sony lost in the PSN attack incident during April-May 2011? Sony has pegged the total cost to be around USD$170 million. Want to see in a real number? It is $170,000,000!
"Based on information currently available to Sony, our currently known costs associated with the unauthorized network access are estimated to be approximately 14 billion yen in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012," Sony said today in an official earnings forecast statement.
As it stands at time of posting, that's exactly USD$171,203,043. There's no detailed breakdown of just how those costs are spread out - how much is down to estimates on the loss of business, direct costs of fixing stuff, etc - but hey, it all contributes to the same bottom line. And that's one painful bottom line.
Note that that while official, these are still estimates; a final figure on the total cost probably won't be known for some time.
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"Based on information currently available to Sony, our currently known costs associated with the unauthorized network access are estimated to be approximately 14 billion yen in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012," Sony said today in an official earnings forecast statement.
As it stands at time of posting, that's exactly USD$171,203,043. There's no detailed breakdown of just how those costs are spread out - how much is down to estimates on the loss of business, direct costs of fixing stuff, etc - but hey, it all contributes to the same bottom line. And that's one painful bottom line.
Note that that while official, these are still estimates; a final figure on the total cost probably won't be known for some time.
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Final Fantasy Type-0 gamplay (5/21/11)
The upcoming game in Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy Type-0 for PSP has a 20 minutes footage gameplay show off. This game set for release this summer in Japan, and will come on two UMDs.
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Monster Hunter Portable 3rd for PS3 trailer
Capcom announced the Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (モンスターハンターポータブル 3rd) from PSP will gonna have a HD version for PS3 platform. Check out the official site for all the details and updates!
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Fullmetal Battle RPG for your iPhone, Android, & Facebook
Fullmetal Battle announced for iPhone, Android, and Facebook, with the trailer above. This game is based on Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, is slated for release this summer. Fullmetal Battle is actually a group RPG where players, made just for the game state alchemists, can team up in groups of three to face characters from the series. So, your custom character can dual with Edward Elric or his younger, but taller brother Alphonse. The battle system appears to be a mix of card games and traditional RPGs since you use items, but still develop character skills.
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Chaos Rings Omega is now available
Chaos Rings Omega was revealed in last month and now had released! You can now find it on iPhone App Store.
Chaos Rings Omega is the latest installment in the globally successful Chaos Rings RPG series. Players can enjoy gorgeous 3D graphics, smooth animations, classic RPG game play, a refined user interface and a rich story linked with the previously released Chaos Rings on their iPhone, iPod touch.
The story is based on the Arc Arena life-or-death tournament. This fight to the death takes places on Earth, 10,000 years before the events of the previous game. As the youthful and daring Veig, the player experiences first-hand battles connected to the previous game, the tragedies that arose because of them and a wondrous story that spans 10,000 years.
Personally, I have to say Square-Enix products have good quality, however this one is costing $11.99... might be little over than it should.
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White Tiger, Lions like iPad too
Have an interested video found from Youtube what using "Game for Cats" on the iPad and showing it to several animals. For the iPhone version the app is calling "Game for Kittens".
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Monster Hunter for iPhone!
Monster Hunter Dynamic Hunting is for iPhone, the game will see release in June.
Basically the controls and moves are depending on how you touch the screen. If it has a lot of different moves, I can imagine "The World Ends With You" (NDS) type gameplay. Lets wait another month to see how good when Monster Hunter playing on an iPhone / iPod.
Check this video out for some gameplay demo:
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Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D slots Barry Burton!?
Barry Burton is joining the playable characters of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. People like it, but not me. If he is the last playable character that announced in for this game, it's really disappointed. I was hoping to see Leon, or Ada Wong in the game, at least they are the main character in several episodes, or why not created a Milla Jovovich like a-like character if you (Capcom) wanted to bring something new for players?
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Nintendo 3DS system update will be available on June 6
Official update from Nintendo, the new 3DS system update has been delayed (it was set to early of May) to June 6, 2011 in North America.
By downloading the free update via a wireless broadband Internet connection, Nintendo 3DS users can enjoy new features and enhancements, including an Internet browser and access to the Nintendo eShop, where users can browse and purchase downloadable content.
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Tekken: Blood Vengeance trailer (5/11/11)
Tekken: Blood Vengeance is a 3D CG-animated movie, currently set to summer of 2011, hope to get more updates soon.
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Play Angry Birds in Google Chrome for free!
Angry Birds is now available in Chrome Web Store. This is only a beta release of the game, and so far it has 63 levels of the original game available, with an additional 7 special Chrome levels! Rovio is bringing more levels to Chrome soon, and planning on making the Mighty Eagle available as an in-app purchase option.
Click here to visit the Chrome Web Store
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Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D - Rebecca revealed
The S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team's youngest member, Rebecca Chambers, gains some new experience in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. An expert in the field of biochemistry, Rebecca is the seventh playable character to join the roster of this Nintendo 3DS exclusive. And we have screenshots to prove it! Further still, there's a brand new "War on Horror" Trailer. Check out the trailer and screens below.
Current confirmed characters are Chris, Claire, Krauser, HUNK, Jill, Wesker, and Rebecca, should be one more to go.
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Sony failed! Continue? Please insert coin (month)
From the PSN Update:
"Regarding the aim of the full restoration of PSN services by the 31st May : -
Restoration of Online Gamplay is the FIRST phase of the plan to restore the PSN."
PSN is back on May 3... May 6... and now May 31? End of May, over a month since PSN is down! Or did Sony mean May 31 of 2012? Sony, you are losing customers, loyal fans, and even developers. If I were game developer I'm going to change the plan on PlayStation now, such case could cause tons of losses indirectly! I feel like Sony is not take responsibility on the promise they made, fail to handle their own service well, that's really disappointed!
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Street Fighter Motion Comic coming in August 2011
Street Fighter: The New Challengers is a brand new motion comic movie from Eagle One Media. Here's a four Minute Preview clip from Eagle One Media's upcoming 90 minute animated comic production based on CAPCOM's popular video game franchise and Udon Studios bestselling comic book series. Coming August 2, 2011.
Street Fighter: The New Challengers continues the epic saga as Ryu begins his journey around the world, Cammy's quest to discover her past takes a number of unexpected turns, Chun-Li's investigation into Shadaloo takes her from the depths of the Hong Kong underworld to the jungles of Brazil, and Ken must contend with a vengeful Vega who wants nothing but to turn Ken's wedding shower into a bloodbath. Many familiar faces from the Street Fighter universe return including US Special Ops Guile, and the spunky and determined schoolgirl Sakura, while fan-favorites such as Fei-Long, Gen, Balrog, Blanka, and Delta Red team make their debut.
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Xbox Live adding Paypal payment option!
Starting on May 19, Xbox LIVE will begin releasing the new Spring 2011 System Update which will expand Paypal to new international markets and enable Paypal to be used as a payment instrument for points, content, and subscription purchase on the Xbox 360 console. This is the only user facing feature of this update.The update will be distributed in six separate waves between May 19 and May 30 "to ensure a high quality deployment." Additionally, while not technically part of the automatic update, Avatar Kinect is listed for a May 27 arrival as a separate download.
This release will also introduce support for a Xbox Game Disc Format (XGD3) that will be used in future game titles releasing later in 2011. XGD3 allows for additional storage space on a game disc, and provides additional layers of copy protection.
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SONY vs. Unknown Anonymous war continue!?
This week (May 8, 2011) lot of articles regarding the Sony PSN or related news floating around the net saying the PSN restoration delayed, Sony security outdated and more... But one of them was found from CNET news is about the hacker's next attack on Sony. According to CNET, A group of hackers says it is planning another wave of cyberattacks against Sony in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network breach. It seems that anonymous hackers is not letting Sony peace at this moment.
The people involved plan to publicize all or some of the information they are able to copy from Sony's servers, which could include customer names, credit card numbers, and addresses, according to the source. The hackers claim they currently have access to some of Sony's servers.
Should the planned attack succeed, it would be the latest blow in a series of devastating security breaches of Sony's servers over the past month. The failure of Sony's server security has ignited investigations by the FBI, the Department of Justice, Congress, and the New York State Attorney General, a well as data security and privacy authorities in the U.K., Canada, and Taiwan.
Sony says it doesn't know who orchestrated what it's calling a "highly sophisticated, planned" attack, but it has dropped hints that the group Anonymous is involved. Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, told a Congressional subcommittee in a letter yesterday that the intruders on its servers planted a file named "Anonymous" containing the statement "We are Legion," part of the group's tagline.
Anonymous issued a statement yesterday denying it was involved in the PSN breach. "While we are a distributed and decentralized group, our 'leadership' does not condone credit card theft," the statement said.
Now looks like the same group of hackers that was able to break in the PSN servers is planning to hit back against Sony. They are not the official "Anonymous" group, but still naming "Anonymous", that's what we can call them now.
Good luck Sony.
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Gloria Union - Intro Trailer
Gloria Union is a Fantasy Turn-Based Strategy game for PSP, developed by Sting and published by Atlus Co.
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Super Mario 3D will use Gyro Sensor but no StreetPass
According to British newspaper, The Telegraph, we now also know that it will use the 3DS’ gyro-sensors in some manner and that there are currently no plans for the title to include StreetPass functionality. These details come straight from the horse’s mouth — that of Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto.
"Sometimes people ask why the 3DS isn’t double stick," Miyamoto said to reporters in the U.K., during a recent interview, providing some insight into the 3DS' hardware design. "One is normally used to control the camera, but having the gyro sensor you can replace the analogue stick by moving the console, which is very intuitive." He confirmed that Super Mario 3D will make use of the gyro sensor, but didn’t outright reveal how.
Miyamoto also stated that, "unless a spectacular idea comes to mind," Super Mario 3D won't use the 3DS' StreetPass features.
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Imaginary Range clear game bonus
As mentioned early the game x comic smartphone game from Square-Enix is now released (May 5, 2011), again, it's free.
The game is as simple as reading the comic that comes with interactivity and some mini games, players have to beat the mini games during some scene to proceed. After you clear the story, some bonuses will be unlocked as listed below.
- Unlock Game Mode.
- Unlock Gallery Mode.
- You can now read the comic only and skip all the pages with action button.
- Butterfly icons appear in panels for background commentary on the setting and story.
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Lord of Vermillion Re:2's Crossover arcade
Square Enix's arcade followup Lord of Vermillion Re:2 would be seeing some big collaborations with Arc System Works, SNK Playmore, and Sega. It would be The King of Fighters '98, BlazBlue, Sangokushi Taisen, and Final Fantasy crossover!
We can see Kyo Kusanagi from KOF, Ragna from BlazBlue, Guan Yu from Sangokushi Taisen. Re:2 also does a full refresh for all 300+ cards from LOVII and adds some new ones as well. Among the new cards is Final Fantasy IX's Kuja. His card is drawn by Shuko Murase, main character designer for FFIX (below).
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Make Your Own DS & 3DS Games with Petit Computer
How to made a DS or 3DS game? Smileboom made the ultimate DSiWare download for homebrew fans. Petit Computer adds the computer language BASIC to the Nintendo DSi and later to the Nintendo 3DS when 3DSWare store is up.
After you download the program you can write loops, draw graphics, and create sounds to make your own video game. Petit Computer includes tools like a character graphic tool and a background scene tool to ease users into development. Games made with Petit Computer are saved to an SD card and can be exchanged online.
It is possible to make games with more advanced graphics like WizFight (left) and Shoot! (right) too.
Petit Computer costs 800 DSiWare Points ($8) and is available now on Japan’s DSiWare Store. SmileBoom will release an updated version for the 3DS when the 3DSWare store goes live at the end of May.
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Introducing - Shadow of the Damned
Shadows of the Damned (PS3/X360) - Developer Diary
From the creative genius of Suda 51 (No More Heroes) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil) comes an all-new psychologically twisted vision of hell unlike anything seen before. Shadows of the Damned combines visceral action with dark, grotesque horror to create a mind-shattering adventure that has to been seen to be believed.
Play style is like Resident Evil 4, you will need to expose enemy's weakness with lighting instead of just shooting their head or core. The monsters and weapons as showing in the video above design are cool and creative. Overall seems good.
Here's another earlier trailer of the game:
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From the creative genius of Suda 51 (No More Heroes) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil) comes an all-new psychologically twisted vision of hell unlike anything seen before. Shadows of the Damned combines visceral action with dark, grotesque horror to create a mind-shattering adventure that has to been seen to be believed.
Play style is like Resident Evil 4, you will need to expose enemy's weakness with lighting instead of just shooting their head or core. The monsters and weapons as showing in the video above design are cool and creative. Overall seems good.
Here's another earlier trailer of the game:
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