Shipping Out: March 9 - 13, 2009

This week gamers can look forward to Mad World, New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis and Pikmin, a new MySims title, Mana Khemia: Student Alliance for PSP and Resident Evil 5 at the end of the week. Are you excited about any of these games? Okay, then how about Eve Online Special Edition or Codename: Panzers Cold War? Still not excited? Check out the full list below - maybe you’ll find something there:

Monday, March 9:
- My Pet Shop - DS
- New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis - Wii
- New Play Control! Pikmin - Wii

Tuesday, March 10:
- Avalon Code - DS
- Codename: Panzers Cold War - PC
- Docomodake BOING! - DS
- Eve Online Special Edition - PC
- Madworld - Wii
- Mana Khemia: Student Alliance - PSP
- MySims Party (Wii, DS)
- SBK: Superbike World Championship - PS3, PSP, Xbox 360
- Trivial Pursuit - Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2
- ZUBO - DS

Wednesday, March 11:
- Marble Saga: Kororinpa - Wii
- NCAA 09 March Madness Edition - Xbox Live Arcade

Friday, March 13:
- Resident Evil 5 - Xbox 360, PS3

Source: GameStop

Trivial Pursuit For Everyone

Electronic Arts announced that its interpretation of the popular Trivial Pursuit board game. Trivial Pursuit will be released on multiple digital platforms including online at Pogo.com, across several consoles and on mobile phones. The first version released is Trivial Pursuit Daily 20 on Pogo.com. Players will get a daily dose of interactive online trivia. Answering the questions correctly will earn the player points toward acquiring wedges in pursuit of collecting all the pie pieces by the end of the week.

The console version of Trivial Pursuit brings the board game experience back to the living room in a whole new venue. Players can connect with friends in classic Trivial Pursuit mode, hone their knowledge with the single player mode, and gather their friends and bet with the high stakes mode where every answer counts. Trivial Pursuit will release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PLAYSTATION 3 and Wii in early spring 2009.

Finally, EA is bringing Trivial Pursuit to mobile phones via its EA Mobile label. Trivial Pursuit from EA Mobile will be available for purchase in North America, Europe and Asia this winter.

To try out Pogo.com’s game visit pogo.com/games/trivial.

EA Unveils Hasbro Titles

EA Casual revealed the first fruits of its licensing deal with Hasbro today. EA’’s casual brand label will publish games based on Littlest Pet Shop, and NERF N-Strike, both in production at EA’s Salt Lake Studio. Littlest Pet Shop is being developed for Wii, DS and PC, while NERF N-Strike is set for release on Wii and DS. Both titles will be released this fall.

EA also is developing new Monopoly and Scrabble titles in North America for multiple platforms, as well as games for its casual game portal and mobile games from EA Mobile. EA Mobile will be delivering Monopoly Here & Now, Trivial Pursuit, Risk, and Yahtzee Adventures to mobile phones. Pogo.com will get some Monopoly, Yahtzee and Trivial Pursuit action this fall. Additionally, Pogo.com is launching two connected downloadable titles, Operation and Pictureka, which can be played offline or online. The connected titles will be ready for prime time this fall.