Go ahead, Press Your Luck
I wish the name of this game, and the game show it was based, on was called “Press your F***ING Luck,” because I think youngsters might be more inclined to play it. But for those familiar with the popular game show, well now you can amuse yourself with the home game. You know, the game they give you when you lose as a contestant? It used to be a board game, but now we are in the digital age. Wow, technology is simply amazing isn’t it? Where was I? Oh yeah, Ubisoft has released Press Your Luck 2010 Edition for the Nintendo Wii, DS and Windows-based PCs.
Press Your Luck is a digital remake of the game show from the 80’s where players assume the role of one of the three contestants competing to win by answering a series of trivia questions correctly to earn “spins” on the Big Board of cash and prizes. Press Your Luck 2010 Edition features single- or multiplayer modes and the ability to design and customize a personal avatar. The game has been created by Ludia and is licensed by FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME).
Find out more about this home game by visiting www.gameshowvideogames.com.
Spore Islands opens on Facebook
If Civilization can be on Facebook than any game can do it right? That’s probably EA and Maxis studios’ way of thinking. Today EA announced that it is bought Spore Islands to Facebook. In Spore Islands Facebook users compete against each other in a 2D world that uses social gaming as its lynch pin.
Spore Islands focuses on player-to-player interaction; users choose their own island to live on, create creatures and evolve them, invite friends to live on their island with them, and send their creatures to friends’ islands. The goal of the game is to dominate as many islands as possible. Players can earn and purchase DNA points that they can use to modify their creature’s stats or customize their creature’s appearance with accessories such as hats, animations, holiday-themed items, and more. Players’ progress is tracked on both Global and a Friends-only leaderboards, which can be viewed by players and their friends, u
Get into the action by installing the application from apps.facebook.com/sporeislands.
Rocking your blocks off: LEGO Rock Band released
Warner Bros. Interactive has released LEGO Rock Band, much to the delight of kids and adults alike - assuming the game is good, of course. Combining Rock and Roll with the popular building blocks, LEGO Rock Band adds LEGO style into the Rock Band formula. The game features 45 songs and at launch and lets players of all skill levels play bass, drums, guitar and mic to such songs from Queen, Foo Fighters, Jackson 5, The All-American Rejects, Jimi Hendrix, Good Charlotte, Tom Petty and more.
Unique to LEGO Rock Band is the introduction of Rock Power Challenges, where players can harness the power of rock to pull off killer riffs that have the ability to do crazy things like demolish a building, stop an angry octopus or send players on wild missions. Naturally the game promises build-and-play elements that let players customize their own experience by creating a minifigure avatar, band and entourage.
The game will also be supported by the Rock Band Store’s regular release of weekly content as well, with some tunes already ready for purchase. LEGO Rock Band is available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and various incarnations of the DS.
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Rabbids Go Home heads to retail
Rabbids Go Home heads to retail this week for Wii, DS and Nintendo DSi. In Rabbids Go Home the crazy bunnies introduced in Rayman Raving Rabbids just want to go home so they try to build stairway to the moon. But in order to make it tall enough they need to collect lots and lots of things of all shapes and sizes.
Promising a “wacky storyline,” new game play, cooperative play, 40 Missions and 15 Environments, controls that take advantage the Wii Remote, a special support for the camera on the DSi version of the game..
Rabbids Go Home for the Wii is rated “E10+” and has an MSRP of $49.99. Rabbids Go Home for the DS and DSi is rated “E” and has an MSRP of $29.99.
101-in-1 Party Megamix released
Atlus U.S.A. has released 101-in-1 Party Megamix in North America today for the Wii. 101-in-1 Party Megamix sounds like a collection of bad dance songs sold “only on TV.” But in reality it is a collection of one hundred and one family-friendly all set in a variety of themes catering to racing fans, sports nuts, old school arcade gamers, action addicts, casual gamers, and fans of brain-teasing puzzles.
The games are broken down into three different modes TV Guide, Zapping, and Marathon. Featuring eight channels, TV Guide mode challenges players to beat high scores to unlock more games and earn bonus prizes to decorate their player profiles with. Zapping mode provides instant access to any currently unlocked game. Up to four players can join the party in Marathon mode where everyone plays five randomly selected games in a row and competes for the highest score.
The game is also available for the DS. Find out more at www.atlus.com/101party.
NERF N-Strike Elite Released
NERF N-Strike Elite for the Wii has shipped, giving youngsters a 3-in-1 NERF N-Strike Elite experience including the game, a bundled NERF SWITCH SHOT EX-3 blaster and attachable Red Reveal decoder lens. NERF N-Strike Elite lets players choose from four characters, each with unique blasters and special abilities. As part of a four-person team, they are tasked with completing a series of increasingly challenging missions with the ultimate end-goal of destroying an army of robots led by B.O.B., who has been rebuilt and is much tougher than in the first NERF N-Strike game.
Players can arm themselves with more than a dozen real NERF blasters that are unlocked as they progress through the game. Each blaster, including Hasbro’s new NERF N-STRIKE RAIDER RAPID FIRE CS 35, offers individual strengths and weaknesses adding tactical strategy to NERF N-Strike Elite.
NERF N-Strike Elite is available at retail and priced at MSRP $59.99. The game is rated E10+. For more information, visit nerf.ea.com.
Africa or bust: SimAnimals heads to retail
SimAnimals Africa for the Wii allows players to interact with wild African animals while they venture across jungles, deserts, savannas, river deltas and more. Each brand new animal has their own unique skill and it’s up to the player to find their secret abilities. Kicking zebras, rock-breaking rhinos and crocodiles that excel at hunting are all part of the cast of characters that will assist players in unlocking new areas, animals, and special items. The Wii game also promises the usual assortment of mini-games as a way to interact with the animals.
SimAnimals Africa on the Nintendo DS features all of the animals included in the Wii adventure, as well as cheetahs, meerkats, aardvarks, a parrot and even a surprise secret animal as a reward for finishing the game. Players will use the stylus, touch screen and microphone to build relationships with these wild animals, discover their secret abilities and use them to help solve puzzles.
Developed by The Sims Studio in the EA Play Label, SimAnimals Africa is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB, 3+ by PEGI, and has an MSRP of $39.99 and $29.99 for the Wii and Nintendo DS, respectively.
