DECA Sports DS announced

Hudson Entertainment announced today that it plans to release A DS version of DECA Sports in Spring 2010. Following the what it calls “the landmark success of the original DECA SPORTS” and the release of the sequel DECA SPORTS 2 later this month, DECA SPORTS DS is an all-new sports compilation title with ten new games that can now be played on the go solo or with up to six friends.

DECA Sports DS will feature an all new selection of sports including golf, ping pong, wall climbing, bobsled, rugby, arm wrestling, clay shooting, cheerleading, sky diving and sepak takraw. In addition to the new sports and multiplayer functionality, gamers will also be able to design their own teams by customizing uniforms, changing athlete abilities and altering the physical characteristics of the athletes themselves.

Look for the game sometime in the spring of next year.

DECA Sports price cut heralds Sept. arrival of sequel

As a precursor to the release of DECA Sports 2 for the Wii on September 29, Hudson Entertainment has dropped the price on the first game to a cool $19.99 USD. The sports compilation game, which has sold 2 million copies to date, was previously priced at $29.99 USD.

For those players who do not own the game already, DECA Sports offers 10 sporting events such as Soccer, Beach Volleyball, Supercross, Kart Racing, Basketball and Snowboard Cross, as well as sports games such as Badminton, Figure Skating, Curling and Archery. Each sport supports both single player and multiplayer modes with up to 4 players and in several events, co-op on the same team.

Find out more about both DECA Sports and the upcoming DECA Sports 2 by visiting www.decasports.com.

Hudson’s PAX Plans

Yesterday, Hudson announced two new WiiWare titles and today the company announced that it will be showing both of them off at at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle at the end of the week. Those freshly announced games - Alien Crush Returns and Bomberman Blast- will be joined by the previously released Fishing Master world Tour and DECA Sports for the Wii. Hudson will be exhibiting in booth 261 for all three days of the event and players that have not had the opportunity to see these games up close and personal will be able to do so for the very first time.

DECA Sports Moves 700, 000 Units

Hudson’s DECA SPORTS has shipped (not sold, mind you) 700,000 units of its 10-Sport Wii party game worldwide. The company said today that it has exceeded 700,000 units shipped worldwide in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Of course, shipped does not mean sold, but it does mean that both retailers and Hudson expect that these units will move at some point.

In March Deca Sporta was released in Japan, followed a U.S. release in May as DECA SPORTS and a June release in Europe as SPORTS ISLAND. What ever you want to call Hudson’s game, it features 10 different sporting events for both single and local multiplayer including curling and figure skating.. I’d make a joke about those two entries but I don’t want to get beat up the next time I’m in Canada. Curling rocks.