JoWooD/DreamCatcher Announce Drivers Ed Portable

Contains practice tests for USA, Canada, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, UK

DreamCatcher Games and JoWooD Productions, leading worldwide publishers and distributors of interactive entertainment software, today announced the development of Drivers Ed Portable for the Nintendo DS™ system. The game will allow teens worldwide to prepare for the written portion of their driver’s licence examination, customized to the country, state or province in which they live.

“Nintendo DS is proving to be an exceptional platform for delivering all types of content, not just traditional games,” says Brian Gladman, Global Product Marketing Manager at DreamCatcher. “Everyone needs to study for their driving test, and we’re confident lots of teens will enjoy having a fun way to study the material on a platform they are comfortable with.”

Drivers Ed Portable will feature two modes: Test and Train. Test mode will include sample tests for the written part of the driver’s license examination for all 50 US states, 13 Canadian provinces and territories, as well as Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. User progress will be tracked, so the player will know where they need to improve their study in order to be successful in their actual test. Train mode will include three fun and educational mini-games targeted to new drivers.

Drivers Ed Portable will be available for Fall 2008.

When a bunch of imps get together all hell seems to break loose and when you throw in a fairy that flies around and an Evil Clown you have a mess. In Cocoto Magic Circus the Fairy says hey there is a strange circus in town and there is this wickedly cool looking clown throwing the gig let’s go check it out. And in old school monster movie rules everybody agrees and away they go to this circus in a big tent. Well when the Cocoto and the Imps with the Fairy get to the circus the wickedly cool looking clown meets them. The clown does a little dance and slight of hand and grabs the fairy in fairy-nap style. Now it is up to one of the four imps to rescue the Fairy. Well after selecting one of the imps you are equipped with a dart pistol to take care of business and how fitting with an old school gallery feeling in a circus tent.

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Finally got the video up. Revver was having issues today for some reason.

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We are going to do a more post on this one as it will take up half the page. We have 49 images of Wonderworld Amusement Park. Wondering what it is? Think Cocoto Magic Circus x 20.

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Ultimate Board Game Collection brings together some of the World’s best loved board and table top games in one must have compilation. Play all time classic games such as Chess, Checkers, Backgammon and Reversi and unlock trophies by completing specific goals. Take on friends and family and learn new games with tutorials included for novice players. You can even customise each game by selecting different rules, environments and piece types.

There’s something for all the family, and no little pieces to lose!

Wii:
12 Games included
Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Naval Battle (Battleships), Sudoku, Mahjong Solitaire, Chinese Checkers, Word Cubes, Quattro, Gomoku, Jigsaws and Reversi.

PSP:
24 Games included
Chess, Quattro, Checkers, Enigma, Backgammon, Reversi, Snakes & Ladders,
Naval Battle (Battleships), Parcheesi, Dice, Dominoes, Go, Chinese Checkers, Word Cubes, Mahjong Solitaire, Anagrams, Concentration, Tic-Tac-Toe, Mancala,
Jigsaws, Shogi, Gomoku, Sudoku and Kakuro.

PS2:
20 Games included
Chess, Quattro, Checkers, Enigma, Backgammon, Reversi, Snakes & Ladders, Naval Battle (Battleships), Parcheesi, Dice, Dominoes, Go, Chinese Checkers, Word Cubes, Mahjong Solitaire, Anagrams, Concentration, 3D Tic-Tac-Toe, Mancala and Jigsaws.

FEATURES:
• A must own collection of the World’s best loved board and table top games.
• With classic family games, all-time favourites, puzzle and strategy games all included, there’s something for players of all ages.
• Play against friends, family or CPU opponent (with multiple difficulty levels).
• Customise each game by selecting different rules, environments and piece types.
• Learn new games with tutorials included for novice players.
• Choose from 4 different soundtracks. Use your own songs as the soundtrack (PSP).
• Unlock trophies by completing specific tasks (PSP, PS2)
• Use the Wii Remote to point, grab and flick pieces with 3 control mechanisms: “flick” control, pointer or +Control Pad. (Wii only).
• Includes lots of different Jigsaw puzzles. Use your own pictures as jigsaws! (PSP).

Art for the game.

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Ubisoft Announces Prince Of Persia for Consoles, PC and Nintendo DS

A New Chapter in the Legendary Franchise to Debut Towards the End of 2008

Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced that a new Prince of Persia is scheduled to release towards the end of 2008 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and PC. This new Prince of Persia marks the debut of the critically acclaimed franchise on next-generation consoles. Developed by Ubisoft’s award-winning Montreal studio and the same all-star team that created the previously acclaimed Prince of Persia® Sands of Time trilogy, Prince of Persia is opening a new chapter in the Prince of Persia universe, featuring a new breed of gameplay. The game is poised to rejuvenate the action-adventure genre in addition to introducing a brand-new illustrative art style.

Ubisoft will also release a Prince of Persia game specifically designed for the Nintendo DS™ system, featuring an entirely new storyline and new characters. More details to be unveiled in the future.

About the Prince of Persia Franchise
Since the first game’s launch in 2003, Prince of Persia has won over 30 awards worldwide, including the highly coveted Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2003’s Console Platform Best Action/Adventure Game of the Year for Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time™. To date, the Prince of Persia franchise has sold approximately 10,3 million units worldwide.

Check www.princeofpersiagame.com regularly for more news.

Discover the first details on the game and the new look of the prince in the next issue of Edge magazine, on sale 8th May.

The Art Pieces.

The DS Imagery.