London, UK –Dec 1st, 2008 - Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment are pleased to announce that LEGO Batman: The Videogame has won a prestigious Children’s BAFTA Award for Best Videogame 2008.

Developer TT Games was snapped up by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in 2007 and has since had a hugely successful 2008 seeing the release of LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Batman: The Videogame.

TT Games beat stiff competition from Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii and Professor Layton and the Curious Village to scoop the top prize at the Children’s BAFTA Awards. Only four titles were short-listed for the award two of which were titles developed by TT Games - LEGO Batman: The Videogame and Guinness World Records: The Videogame.

“We’re absolutely delighted; it’s a very special accolade for the whole team” said TT Games head of production Jonathan Smith.

“To get this acknowledgment, here in our home country of the UK, to be acknowledged by the British Academy for the work that everyone’s done on LEGO Batman, was really thrilling.”

Spencer Crossley, head of videogames UK at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment said, “We extremely happy for everyone at TT Games. They have brought to life two great brands through fantastic game play and lots of humour which works perfectly for children.”

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This is a little ironi, and you will get it if you followed my posts from earlier today. An inside source to purenintendo.com has told us that 5th cell, the creators of “Drawn to Life” and “Lock Quest” will be announcing a new title this Friday December 5th. Stay with Nintendo all week for coverage of all things Nintendo, and make sure to check on Friday for the announcement.

5TH Cell announces exclusive worldwide unveiling of new original game at IGN.com on December, 5th.

BELLEVUE, Washington.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 1, 2008-5TH Cell Media LLC (5TH Cell), the creators of Drawn to Life™ and Lock’s Quest™, announced today an exclusive agreement with IGN.com to reveal their latest original game on Friday, December 5th 2008. This never before seen concept will continue 5TH Cell’s tradition of delivering high quality, original games with totally unique gameplay experiences.

“We’re very excited about the upcoming unveiling of our latest title on IGN.com. We built upon the experience and evolving technology from our previous titles to deliver something to the player that is completely new. This title is innovative, engaging and completely unique. We look forward to sharing it with everyone on December 5th”, said Creative Director for 5TH Cell, Jeremiah Slaczka.

General Manager Joseph M Tringali added, “The success of our previous titles has awarded us the chance to work on a new, exciting intellectual property After many months, we’re thrilled to show off our new title for the first time exclusively at IGN.com. We’re set on delivering an amazing final product and meeting the expectations of gamers everywhere.”

Broken Aircraft Carrier?  Leaking Fishing Boat?  Giant Broken Wedding
Cake? Fear not! Hudson’s All-Female Pit Crew Has You Covered!

REDWOOD CITY, CA - December 1, 2008 - Hudson Entertainment, the North
American publishing arm of HUDSON SOFT, today announced the official
launch of Pit Crew Panic!, an all-new, wacky “panic-action” game,
available for WiiWare.  This unique game is loaded with frantic fixing
fun as the player’s all-female pit crew repairs a variety of bizarre
“WHATSITS” as fast as they can.

Players can choose to play solo and race against the clock or play
against their friends to see whose all-female pit crew can hammer,
screw and wrench the fastest on a giant broken wedding cake! Inspired
grease monkeys can even play online and see whose girls can out-fix
their opponents on an aircraft carrier, a broken toilet, a pot of
sunflowers, a car with a cake under its hood and many more zany
“WHATSITS”!

Pit Crew Panic! is full of crazy frantic action!  As broken “WHATSITS”
race up to the awaiting pit crew, players will have the power to
assign each of their pit crew girls to different sections of the
broken item that needs to be fixed.  Players have to hurry before
timers run out since sections of the broken “WHATSITS” could explode
like ticking time bombs or spew automotive fluids and nearby pit crew
girls will get stunned or slip!

Players can also help out their pit crew girls in sticky fix-it
situations by using their Wii Remote just like a real pit crew tool.
Just like any good grease monkey would use a screwdriver, wrench or
other pit crew tools, players can use the Wii Remote to hammer away
with up and down swings or tighten bolts with a turn of the wrist.
There is also a handy tutorial to help players figure out not just how
to play the game, but also how to go as fast as they can when fixing
all the wacky “WHATSITS” in the game!

“Pit Crew Panic! has taken gameplay with the Wii Remote to fun and
creative new extremes,” said Sabine Duvall, Vice President of Product
Development at Hudson Entertainment.  ”The game has a unique sense of
humor which players will appreciate as they try to use the Wii Remote
as a blowtorch to fix a space station or as a wrench to fix a
locomotive.”

Pit Crew Panic! is rated E for Everyone by the Entertainment Software
Rating Board (ESRB).

Hudson PR

After a long, lazy holiday weekend, it’s time to shake off your post-Thanksgiving daze. Need some suggestions for boosting your activity level back into the red? Let the latest additions to the Wii™ Shop Channel be your guide: Take command of a UFO in an epic space battle, get your engine revving as the leader of a frenzied pit crew, or storm the battlefield in a high-tech military mêlée. With all this excitement, you may be ready for another vacation day sooner than you think.

Nintendo adds new and classic games to the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week’s new games are:

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According to the official Rock Band Store, the rumors seem to be true. Rock Band for the Wii has been pushed back to 2009. The good thing is you will only have to wait a few days for its release on January 5th. Normally I would say the 5th was a place holder date, it still may be, but this is coming from the official Rock Band site, so that makes me believe that it is the real release date.

Thanks J031 for the tip!

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Sources close to Square Enix have told Eurogamer that Chrono Trigger DS will get a release here in February.

Once again another “sources” statment from another website. I am not saying I do not believe them, in fact I do. With Europe missing out on the original SNES and PS1 releases of Chrono Trigger, they are bond to at least get one.

CVG is reporting, from “sources,” that the next “blocked” movie game will be Harry Potter! They give no more info than that, so I guess there is no more to say. They are working on getting their hands on some more info, as soon as they do we will let you know.

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I heard about this commercial a few weeks ago, but I never saw it until today. I just had to share it with you guys. Does this make you want to go out an by Wii Music?