BURN OFF THOSE HOLIDAY CALORIES WITH UBISOFT® AND “YOUR SHAPE(TM)”
Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy Now In Stores In North America
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – November 24, 2009 – Ubisoft® today announced that its ground-breaking new fitness title, Your Shape(TM) Featuring Jenny McCarthy is now available at retail. Leveraging an entirely new, motion-sensing camera peripheral for the Wii(TM) system from Nintendo, Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy is the first fitness video game that enables people to experience a comprehensive workout controller-free.
The camera, which is included with the game, provides a completely personalized and interactive workout by scanning players’ bodies, assessing their current fitness level and then projecting their images onto the TV. Once the player completes an initial fitness test, the game is able to completely personalize their workout routine to their fitness level as well as their personal fitness goals and schedule. And, with the innovative new motion-tracking technology, the game is able to follow a player’s movements as they workout, and guide them in real time so that they know whether or not they’re doing the exercises correctly.
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WHAT: Electronic Arts is bringing the holidays to Memphis early with the arrival of its EA Mall Tour, coming to the Southland Mall Thanksgiving weekend from Friday, Nov. 27 through Sunday, Nov. 29. EA will be featuring the hottest videogames of the season, including the award-winning, exhilarating arcade-style racer Need for Speed NITRO. Everyone from grandparents who’ve never picked up a videogame controller before to hard-core gamers will enjoy the thrill of high-speed racing with Need for Speed NITRO. Consumers who stop by the EA Mall Tour for a Black Friday game play break with Need for Speed NITRO may also race home a winner: in addition to in-depth gameplay demos, EA will also be giving away exciting prizes, including six Wii systems.
Download New BIT.TRIP Kicks, Speeding Karts, Magic Castles and More
Among the latest downloadable games from Nintendo is BIT.TRIP VOID, a riveting new installment in the extraordinary retro-arcade series for the WiiWare™service. You’ll also find some remarkable kid-friendly fare on WiiWare this week, including the immersive Harvest Moon®: My Little Shop. Race-loving Mario™ fans will thrill to see the original Super Mario Kart™ make its Virtual Console™ debut alongside the imaginative A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia. The Nintendo DSiWare™ service welcomes Castle Of Magic – featuring some inventive uses for the Nintendo DSi™ system’s built-in cameras – as well as five delightful additions to the Electroplankton™ series. No doubt, the variety and value found on the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop are enough to keep holiday consumers energized through Black Friday and beyond.
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BIT.TRIP VOID
Burlingame, Calif., November 23, 2009 – Natsume Inc., a worldwide
developer and publisher of family-oriented video games, announced
today that Harvest Moon: My Little Shop has been released for digital
download on Nintendo WiiWare. This fun-filled new spin on the popular
Harvest Moon series will be available for 1200 Wii Points and is rated
E for Everyone by the ESRB.“We are thrilled to be bringing Harvest Moon: My Little Shop to
WiiWare,” said Hiro Maekawa, President and CEO at Natsume. “It’s a
great addition to the WiiWareT library for players of all ages. It
combines the addictive farming fun of the Harvest Moon series with
lively, imaginative minigames. You won’t find anything else quite like
it!”
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Denise Kaigler was NOA’s vice president of corporate affairs.
Nintendo has issued this statement…
“Denise Kaigler has been a valuable part of the Nintendo of America team …
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On Monday, November 23, Super Mario Kart will be available for the Virtual Console. The game will cost 800 points ($8). Also, Nintendo confirmed that …
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Continuing our season of Call of Duty, Treyarch brings us an ambitious Wii port of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, subtitled Reflex Edition. We first heard about the game only a few months ago and people have questioned the quality even up until the game’s release last week. With no official gameplay videos or screenshots leading up to its release, it’s no wonder why many, including myself, thought the Wii shooter would fail to deliver. However, after spending many hours with the game, I will try to ease some of your worries.
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“The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band” Special to Premiere
November 27th on VH1 Classic at 7:30PM ET/PTNew York, NY – November 20, 2009 – Harmonix Music Systems Inc., the leading developer of music-based games, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks, today unveiled a new marketing campaign for The Beatles™: Rock Band™ targeted to families this holiday season and complementary to the award-winning launch campaign. The new TV commercial can be viewed at www.thebeatlesrockband.com/pressand will begin on-air rotations on Saturday, November 21st.
Celebrating the massive development effort behind The Beatles: Rock Band, VH1 has created a special look at how the game was created, including never-before-seen footage of Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at Abbey Road Studios being presented with work in progress by the Harmonix creative team. “The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band” is a 30-minute special that features interviews from Giles Martin, co-producer of The Beatles innovative LOVE album project and Music Supervisor for The Beatles: Rock Band, and Alex Rigopulos, co-founder and CEO or Harmonix Music Systems, as well as additional interviews with the development team. The special reveals the origins of the game and a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the music video game that the New York Times called “the most important video game yet made.” “The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band” will premiere Friday, November 27th on VH1 Classic at 7:30 PM ET/PT.
Cambridge, Mass. – Nov. 20, 2009 – Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a six pack of live tracks from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, as well as singles from Kelly Clarkson, P!nk and the Go-Go’s will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 System and Wii
Rock Band is delivering more tracks from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers with a six pack of live tracks that coincide with the group’s latest album release, The Live Anthology. All six songs featured in “Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live Anthology Pack 01” are featured on The Live Anthology, a box set featuring 48 live recorded tracks on four discs that will be released Nov. 24, the same day these tracks come to Rock Band. The album spans 30 years of concerts from legendary U.S. rockers Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, who have been performing together since 1976. A special boxed set edition of The Live Anthology will also be available Nov. 22, exclusively at Best Buy.
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 19, 2009 — Atlus U.S.A., Inc. today unloaded a plethora of content for Shiren the Wanderer™, the upcoming critically-acclaimed RPG for Wii™. In addition to the game’s final North American box art and the first batch of English screenshots, the publisher also updated the game’s release date and introduced an official blog, offering fans an intricate look into the game, its exciting millenium-spanning narrative, and its addictive RPG mechanics.
The publisher also revealed that three online features from the Japanese version of the game would not be included in the North American release:
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