Rising out of the rich soil sprouts Gardening Mama, a new Nintendo DS(TM) gardening simulation that was announced today by Majesco Entertainment Company (Nasdaq: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market. Developed by Cooking Mama Limited, the team that created the award-winning Cooking Mama franchise that has sold 2.5 million units domestically, Gardening Mama brings back the beloved matron to cultivate a cornucopia of fruits, flowers and vegetables in her backyard.

"Mama has become a certifiable iconsince her original introduction in Cooking Mama DS," said Jesse Sutton, Chief Executive Officer, Majesco. "Her first brand offshoot captures those features that made the Cooking Mama series a best seller -- an innovative concept, full Touch Screen control, approachable gameplay for everyone and, of course, a charismatic mentor who pushes you in her own endearing way to give a gold medal performance every time."

Gardening Mama transforms the DS stylus into a universal gardening tool that players will use to plant, nurture and harvest flowers, fruits and vegetables. Gamers can manage their garden through the seeding, blooming and maturation phases, and then produce items from the plants they've grown (i.e. grow strawberries to make jam or raise pumpkins and then carve a jack-'o-lantern). A robust multiplayer mode lets up to four friends compete to grow the biggest harvest and Treasure Box mode lets players share items they've grown with online friends. Gamers can also decorate various gardens while creating goods like pergolas and hanging baskets. In addition, players can change Mama's outfit to their liking while customizing the screen design to their preference.

Just as millions of players enjoyed slicing and dicing with Mama in the kitchen, they can now move to the great outdoors -- planting, pruning, picking, and creating -- in Gardening Mama!

Gardening Mama for DS is expected to release in Spring 2009. For additional information about Majesco's exciting line of products, please visit www.majescoentertainment.com.

NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe gets working on its combos in preparation for the next instalment in the ultimate fighting franchise TEKKEN 6, scheduled for release in Europe through its distribution partnership with Infogrames Entertainment in autumn 2009 for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

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Newly released today:



features
Enjoy the franchise's debut on next-generation consoles utilizing Ubisoft's proprietary Anvil engine, the same engine used to develop Assassins Creed
Utilize the Prince's old skills, along with a whole new combat system, to battle Ahriman's corrupted lieutenants to heal the land from the dark Corruption and restore the light
Escape to a fantasy world set in ancient Persia brought to life through masterful storytelling and sprawling environments and that rivals the blockbusters of Hollywood
For the first time in franchise history decide how the storyline unfolds by choosing the Prince's path in an open-ended game world
Wield the acrobatic and puzzle-solving power of the Prince's beautiful and powerful AI companion Elika as you explore the perils of ancient Persia

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The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey.

Escape to experience the new fantasy world of ancient Persia. Masterful storytelling and sprawling environments deliver a brand new adventure that re-opens the Prince of Persia saga. Now you have the freedom to determine how the game evolves in this non-linear adventure. Players will decide how they unfold the storyline by choosing their path in the open-ended world.

In this strange land, your rogue warrior must utilize all of his skills, along with a whole new combat system, to battle Ahriman’s corrupted lieutenants to heal the land from the dark Corruption and restore the light. Also, history's greatest ally is revealed in the form of Elika, a dynamic AI companion who joins the Prince in his fight to save the world. Gifted with magical powers, she interacts with the player in combat, acrobatics and puzzle-solving, enabling the Prince to reach new heights of deadly high-flying artistry through special duo acrobatic moves or devastating fighting combo attacks.

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Newly released today:



features
Enjoy the franchise's debut on next-generation consoles utilizing Ubisoft's proprietary Anvil engine, the same engine used to develop Assassins Creed
Utilize the Prince's old skills, along with a whole new combat system, to battle Ahriman's corrupted lieutenants to heal the land from the dark Corruption and restore the light
Escape to a fantasy world set in ancient Persia brought to life through masterful storytelling and sprawling environments and that rivals the blockbusters of Hollywood
For the first time in franchise history decide how the storyline unfolds by choosing the Prince's path in an open-ended game world
Wield the acrobatic and puzzle-solving power of the Prince's beautiful and powerful AI companion Elika as you explore the perils of ancient Persia

description
The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey.

Escape to experience the new fantasy world of ancient Persia. Masterful storytelling and sprawling environments deliver a brand new adventure that re-opens the Prince of Persia saga. Now you have the freedom to determine how the game evolves in this non-linear adventure. Players will decide how they unfold the storyline by choosing their path in the open-ended world.

In this strange land, your rogue warrior must utilize all of his skills, along with a whole new combat system, to battle Ahriman’s corrupted lieutenants to heal the land from the dark Corruption and restore the light. Also, history's greatest ally is revealed in the form of Elika, a dynamic AI companion who joins the Prince in his fight to save the world. Gifted with magical powers, she interacts with the player in combat, acrobatics and puzzle-solving, enabling the Prince to reach new heights of deadly high-flying artistry through special duo acrobatic moves or devastating fighting combo attacks.

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-309k.html

Désireux de renouer avec son glorieux passé, Atari entend bien ressusciter quelques unes de ses plus fameuses franchises. Comme Phil Harrison vient de le révéler à la presse spécialisée, l'éditeur français prévoit ainsi de développer de nou...

Namco-Bandai finit la journée en beauté en dévoilant de magnifiques screenshots du très attendu Tekken 6. Cette franchise se fait la main pour la première fois (et pour le plaisir de beaucoup de joueurs) sur la console de Microsoft. Par contre, ne soyez pas pressé car le jeu est prévu pour la fin de...

pMicrosoft's entrance into the world of karoke games, emLips/em, may not have the polish or functional breadth of Sony's matured emSingStar/em franchise, but a few neat ideas and novel twists as well as some great accessories make this a surprisingly competent first go./ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/12/02/review-lips-is-a-surprisingly-potent-party-game"Read More.../a/p

Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert isn't worried about his franchise player bolting for the Big Apple in 2010. Instead, Gilbert told CNBC on Monday that this is more an instance of perception than reality.

When Cinematical visited the set of Sherlock Holmes last month, we certainly wanted to learn a lot more about this much-anticipated film (which we did), but we also wanted to find out once and for all whether the classic Holmes villain Moriarty would make an appearance. Up until this point, Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) was the only villain on record, and so far folks behind the scenes have managed to successfully dodge the big Moriarty question. That is, until now.

Note: Watch for spoilers below ...

While we received a number of shady answers (followed by evil smirks) from the cast and crew regarding Moriarty during our set visit, IGN managed to get someone to talk: Mr. Mark Strong. At the British Independent Film Awards over the weekend, Strong said this about Moriarty's involvement: "Moriarty's in it ... but you don't really see him. I think he's there because if the franchise carries on, there's a possibility that he will appear in a larger guise. But for the purposes of this one and the detective narrative, I'm the guy that Sherlock's after, Lord Blackwood. And he's a cultist/Satanist lord who is the ultimate cad." So he's there, but you don't see him? Hmmm. I guess we'll take that as solid confirmation ... until we find out who's playing him (ahem, Russell Crowe?).

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Today Ubisoft announced Prince of Persia for the Xbox 360 and PS3 has shipped to store shelves. "Prince of Persia is one of the most innovative and critically acclaimed franchises in video game history," said Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Ubisoft.

Though we don't know much at the moment, CVG is reporting that Atari will release Ready 2 Rumble Revolution on the Wii in March of next year. In case you're among the sad few unfamiliar with the franchise, Ready 2 Rumble was a cartoonish boxing game ... really Facebreaker before Facebreaker was Facebreaker. (Oh, and before you panic, we captured the pic above from one of those older R2Rs.)

The series has typically featured mini-games to train your boxer like pill popping and weight lifting, as well as celebrity cameos like Michael Jackson and Hillary Clinton. They've been replaced in R2RR by David Beckham, Brad Pitt and John Travolta. Go figure.

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Sports/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=202985"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/ready2rumblepsx.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Though we don't know much at the moment, CVG is reporting that Atari will release emReady 2 Rumble Revolution/em on the Wii in March of next year. In case you're among the sad few unfamiliar with the franchise, emReady 2 Rumble/em was a cartoonish boxing game ... really emFacebreaker /embefore emFacebreaker /emwas emFacebreaker/em. (Oh, and before you panic, we captured the pic above from one of those older emR2R/ems.)br /br /The series has typically featured mini-games to train your boxer like pill popping and weight lifting, as well as celebrity cameos like Michael Jackson and Hillary Clinton. They've been replaced in emR2RR /emby David Beckham, Brad Pitt and John Travolta. Go figure.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/ready-2-rumble-revolution-punching-out-wii-in-march-2009/"Ready 2 Rumble Revolution punching out Wii in March 2009/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:35:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=202985Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/ready-2-rumble-revolution-punching-out-wii-in-march-2009/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1388614/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/ready-2-rumble-revolution-punching-out-wii-in-march-2009/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/p9UiAl08XtSPoOTXXwLfupNVUSs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/p9UiAl08XtSPoOTXXwLfupNVUSs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=8y7FwkMx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=8y7FwkMx" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=hqoGLDGJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=hqoGLDGJ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/3bG6s36vcWE" height="1" width="1"/

Progress Software, fournisseur mondial de logiciels d'infrastructure SOA, annonce que La Mie Câline, numéro 1 de la franchise en France, capitalise...img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/268/f/3632/s/27bc21b/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=Progress Software : capitalise sur sa solution OpenEdgeTMlink=http://www.boursier.com/dispatch/progress-software-capitalise-sur-sa-solution-openedgetm-news-310316.htm" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=Progress Software : capitalise sur sa solution OpenEdgeTMlink=http://www.boursier.com/dispatch/progress-software-capitalise-sur-sa-solution-openedgetm-news-310316.htm" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/div

N'y tenant plus, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, dont le coeur de grande bourgeoise italienne penche à gauche depuis toujours, a décidé de choisir son camp: celui de première opposante à la politique de son chef d'Etat de mari. Gonflée. Ou inconsciente, au choix. Elle ne figurait pas dans le Marianne consacré aux « opposants à Nicolas Sarkozy ». Pourtant, force est de constater que la première et la plus virulente opposante au chef de l’Etat vit à ses côtés, dans les entrailles mêmes du pouvoir, à l’Elysée. C’est dire si elle constitue un danger. Qui ça? Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, bien sûr. La première Dame de France a fait son coming-out d’opposante en chef ce matin dans le Parisien.

Inégalités, éducation: Carla attaque Nicolas
Ses déclarations ne laissent pas place au doute. Lorsque le journaliste du Parisien demande à CBS «Allez vous vous engager pour d’autres causes ? », celle-ci réplique aussi sec « Oui. Plusieurs causes me tiennent à cÅ“ur, la pauvreté, l’éducation, tout ce qui est source d’inégalités ».
Voilà un sacré coup porté au camp sarkozyste qui ne s’attendait sans doute pas à pareille attaque...

De fait, quelle plus grande source d'inégalité en France que la politique du gouvernement? Commençons par la pauvreté, si chère au coeur de Carla. Ainsi, dans son numéro d’octobre le journal économique l’Expansion pointait trois évolutions récentes : la croissance de la pauvreté des jeunes, l’augmentation du nombre de travailleurs pauvres et le boom du surendettement. Tandis que les profits du CAC 40 ont dépassé les 100 milliards d'euros. Or, Nicolas est-il revenu pour autant sur son paquet fiscal? Non.
En ce qui concerne l’éducation, là encore Carla Bruni-Sarkozy accable son mari. C'est Nicolas qui a supprimé 11.000 postes d’enseignants cette année.

L'entrisme de Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
L’ex chanteuse a également décidé de mettre sa médiatisation au service du combat contre la maladie (notamment le sida). Dans un éditorial du journal l’Humanité, Jean-Emmanuel Ducoin salue la « noble intention». «Mais que la Première Dame regarde attentivement autour d'elle : en France, toutes les mesures prises en matière de santé, des forfaits aux franchises médicales en passant par le déremboursement de certains médicaments, toutes ces mesures pénalisent d'abord les malades de longue durée, dont ceux atteints du sida... Que Carla Bruni-Sarkozy le sache, le premier responsable de cette situation vit à ses côtés... Elle en est même l'épouse ». On ne saurait mieux dire.

Alors pur hasard ou attaques préméditées? Il n'en reste pas moins que Carla Bruni Sarkozy n’entend pas se laisser marcher sur les pieds par son présidentiel mari qui, même en habile stratège, n’avait sans doute pas envisagé d’avoir à affronter pareil ennemi de l’intérieur.
Barack Sarkozy ou Nicolas Obama ?

Invitée à commenter l’élection d’Obama, la première Dame de France s’emballe: « Elle a enthousiasmé tout le monde et moi avec. Je suis impatiente de le rencontrer». Et de poursuivre, apparemment sérieuse: « Mais l’élection de mon mari aussi a montré une volonté de changement énorme. Mon mari est un immigré de deuxième génération et moi-même une immigrée de première génération ».
Ce serait donc ça: l’élection de Nicolas Sarkozy préfigurait celle de Barack Obama –chacun aura remarqué à quel point dans sa campagne, Nicolas a multiplié les allusions à son statut d’immigré de deuxième génération...- les deux candidats symbolisant une « intégration réussie », comme l’avait noté sans rire, Brice Hortefeux à propos du président américain. Ce dernier étant né à...Hawaï (un état américain, pour ceux qui sont allés à l'école avec Brice Hortefeux). 
Va, lis et reviens

• Le blog Hexagone de Libération
• L'interview de la première Dame au Parisien
• La diplomatie Carla continue (Marianne2.fr)

Silly us X-Files fans trying to rationalize why The X-Files: I Want to Believe crashed and burned so badly this summer. It was too thoughtful! Too character-driven! Too focused on giving fans emotional closure, and not enough on slam-bang summer excitement! Long-time franchise producer Frank Spotnitz has a much easier and quicker answer: It was The Dark Knight's fault.

His theory goes thus: The X-Files opened a week after The Dark Knight broke all sorts of records and began its domination of the summer box office. What's more, the dark and brooding film was similar in tone to the caped juggernaut, and not the sort of counterprogramming that might nonetheless have had a chance in its wake. And so you get $21 million domestic.

Look, I'm probably as big a fan of I Want to Believe as you'll find around these parts; for fans of the show it was a lovely, moving conclusion. For fans of the show. The commercial problem with the film wasn't that it was too dark or that it followed The Dark Knight, but that it was too small, and its appeal too narrow. A bigger, flashier X-Files, with more explosions and flying saucers, would have done better, Batman notwithstanding. As it stood, people who didn't grow up on Mulder and Scully didn't see a reason to go. And -- speaking, again, as someone who loves the film -- they probably made the right choice. There wasn't much there for them.

Oh, and as to the possibility of another film that Spotnitz vaguely suggests: no thank you. This was a graceful, satisfying finale.

[via Movie City News]

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John Koller de Sony Computer Entertainment America nous promet en effet que 2009 sera une année faste pour la PSP. Selon lui, la petite portable s'apprête en effet à accueillir des titres issus de grosses franchises. Même si des portages d'adaptation(...)img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/808/f/413796/s/27bd48e/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=Plus de grosses franchises sur PSP en 2009link=http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2008/00030433-plus-de-grosses-franchises-sur-psp-en-2009.htm" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=Plus de grosses franchises sur PSP en 2009link=http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2008/00030433-plus-de-grosses-franchises-sur-psp-en-2009.htm" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193239809/u/89/f/413796/c/808/s/41669774/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193239809/u/89/f/413796/c/808/s/41669774/a2.img" border="0"//a

Rising out of the rich soil sprouts Gardening Mama, a new Nintendo DS(TM) gardening simulation that was announced today by Majesco Entertainment Company, an innovative provider of video games for the mass market. Developed by Cooking Mama Limited, the team that created the award-winning Cooking Mama franchise that has sold 2.5 million units domestically, Gardening Mama brings back the beloved matron to cultivate a cornucopia of fruits, flowers and vegetables in her backyard. Gardening Mama for DS is expected to release in Spring 2009.

The hilarious Ready 2 Rumble franchise is flexing its muscles and planning a major, star-studded return to the ring in spring 2009 with the launch of Ready 2 Rumble Revolution, the newest game in the much-loved series. Its the first time the franchise has been on the Wii and has been tailored to take advantage of the motion-controlled realism of Wii. The game will feature a huge roster of celebrity-inspired fighters.

Category: Games
Released: Nov 23, 2008
Price: $9.99

Description:
The most explosive shooting experience on iPhone! Described by the press as "incredible"; "an achievement", "it looks and sounds absolutely fantastic". Play as a soldier of the 101st Airborne in the most intense WWII battles: - The iPhone version of the world-famous Brothers In Arms franchise. - 14 missions in 3 campaigns: Normandy, Ardennes & Tunisia. - Unbelievable 3D graphics recreating the atmosphere of a real Hollywood WWII blockbuster. - Drive a 4x4 vehicle or a Sherman tank and use a wide range of weapons (bazooka, sniper rifle, machine guns, etc.) - Use the accelerometer function to launch grenades & the touch screen to shoot at enemies. Soldier, defeat is not an option! For fans of shooters & action games like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed & Kroll.

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