Stop Stress: A Day of Fury

Abylight an independent premier video game developer, is pleased to announce the upcoming release date for Stop Stress: A Day of Fury, the complete anti-stress therapy for those days when everything that can go wrong, does, or so they say!

Stop Stress: A Day of Fury will be released on January 8th on WiiWare™ in Europe for 800 Wii Points™.

“[It is] the perfect antidote for the modern, urban, stressed out gamer”, said Nacho Garcia, producer at Abylight, “With encounters that range from demonic toasters to an antagonising baby gorilla, players will need to destroy everything in their patch to commence to the next stage”.

Have you ever had one of those days where you wish you’d never got out of bed? In Stop Stress: A Day of Fury you play Jack, a man with dangerously high blood pressure and possibly the most stressed man on earth, whose manic urban life is driving him nuts. As our stressed out hero, you have only one objective – to fulfill the ultimate dream of escaping from the city into a stress free Zen like existence.

Unfortunately for our hero Jack, the path to a trauma free life is littered with madcap enemies including a killer toaster, baby gorilla and a crazy cop hell bent on making you lose your cool. To deal with these wacky menaces players use a selection of crazy weapons including a slipper, axe and giant baseball bat as they proceed to wreak total carnage on anything and everything in their path.

To progress to the next level, players need to destroy everything they can get their hands on commence to the next stage. Featuring three different levels of difficulty within four different unabated and chaotic scenarios, the stress won’t halt, until you stop it or the stress stops your heart.

Stop Stress: A Day of Fury is rated PEGI +12 and will be available on the Wii Shop Channel.

For more information please visit the official game website.

Superbike World Championship Racing Game

The new edition of the Superbike World Championship racing game is due for release in May 2010 for Xbox360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

SBK®09 offers the ultimate experience of the championship with every feature of the game improved-on from the previous year.

There has been a complete track overhaul, new teams, a new 3D environment, new gameplay structure and new game modes, even the pits have been revamped to look as real as possible.

Each player can now fine-tune his chosen race bike by changing the settings just like a real race engineer, using data collected from the real teams.

In addition, for the first time in a motorcycle racing game, damage caused to the riders leather or bike will also show up in the game, giving that extra feel of reality to the player.

The game features five single player game modes; Quick Race, Training, Race Weekend, Championship and Challenges and three online multiplayer game modes; Quick Race, Championship and Team Championship.

“Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH is a fantastic addition to the WiiWare library for puzzle fans both young and old”, said Martijn Reuvers, Managing Director of Two Tribes. “With Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH players get a mind-boggling puzzle game that will really push their imagination and challenge their puzzle solving skills to the next level.”

Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH is an original 3D puzzle game that provides hours of puzzling fun and excitement across more than 70 brain-busting levels. Utilizing the intuitive Wii controls, players ‘herd’ coloured cubes to their exit points across stylish environments using a crazy mix of tools including conveyor belts, warps and stop signs. Developed exclusively on WiiWare by puzzle masters Two Tribes Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH is the first in a series of Rubik inspired games to come from the studio.

In addition to the 70-plus levels included, Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH also features the original Rubik’s Cube gameplay as a bonus. Players can try to solve one of the four sizes available, play the unique pattern matching score mode, learn how to solve the original Rubik’s Cube and even compete in the two player mode. Rounding out the package are the online leader boards, with the potential to host tournaments, with prizes awarded to those players who achieve the best scores.

Watch the trailer;

MotoGP 09/10 Game

Capcom recently presented their new MotoGP 09/10 game in Valencia and challenged the two MotoGP riders Mika Kallio and Aleix Espargaro to partake.

Gamers can select from all the official riders, teams and circuits from the 2009 season with players given access to free downloads as the 2010 season develops.

MotoGP 09/10 will be available on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and featuring the complete MotoGP series with the 125cc, 250cc and the MotoGP classes.

The new game has been developed by Monumental Games and is to be published by Capcom, available for purchase in March 2010.

dead santa-spooky spirits

The latest touch friendly puzzle game app, Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!! is now available via the iTunes app store, following the recent launch by developers Innogiant in conjunction with Legendo Entertainment.

Developed by the handheld specialists at newly founded Innogiant, Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!!, will have players traveling the world, capturing  runaway spirits in various fun and exciting game modes designed for puzzle fanatics and casual players alike.

Having fallen asleep on their watch and lost the Spookies, Becky and Tim are banished and risk losing their spirit warden jobs unless they manage to recapture these pesky ghosts.

The unfortunate duo must search haunted locations on Earth to track down the Spookies including the Sphinx of Egypt, a Haunted House in England and an abandoned crypt in Finland featuring none other than Dead Santa himself.

Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!! offers a unique twist on the classic falling block and “match-2” gameplay format. In the game, players build and expand stacks of Spookies in any direction and in any amount.

Three Game Modes:

• In the Panic Mode, players must clear each level by catching an appropriate amount of Spookies before the screen overfills.
• Puzzle Mode is a relaxed mode with no stress – players must outsmart the Spookies’ clever puzzles and beat them in their own game using only a limited number of blocks.
• Eternity Mode is a Tetris-inspired exhaust mode that just keeps going for as long as players can keep it at or reach the max-score of 9,999,999 points (that’s A LOT of Spookies to catch!).

Touch Controls:

• Swipe the screen to control the game, left and right selects blocks, up swaps them and down drops them!

Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!! – Trailer

Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!! can be downloaded from the Apple App Store via iTunes or directly from compatible handsets and costs $1.99 USA, £1.19 UK or €1.59 Europe.

monkey island

Telltale Games and LucasArts today are reporting the purported demise of Guybrush Threepwood, one of gaming’s greatest heroes and the Caribbean’s mightiest pirates.

Details are sketchy and authorities have not named any suspects, but unconfirmed reports suggest that the recently reformed pirate LeChuck may somehow be involved. Investigators have not been able to locate the former demon pirate, or Threepwood’s wife Elaine Marley-Threepwood, for questioning.

As the chronicler of Threepwood’s recent exploits in Tales of Monkey Island, Telltale Games assures the masses that answers to many vexing questions will be revealed in the grand finale episode, Rise of the Pirate God, which releases on Tuesday, December 8 at telltalegames/monkeyisland.

In honor of Threepwood’s heroic and adventurous life, Telltale is now offering the first four episodes of Tales of Monkey Island for individual
purchase at telltalegames/monkeyisland. Each episode is priced at $8.95 USD each.

Xbox 360

From today all Xbox 360 owners will find new entries on their game consoles as they will have Facebook, Twitter and Last.FM added to them automatically.

There is also to a brand new Zune-branded download portal and what’s more not one of them will need to be downloaded.

It is now expected that the same will also be appearing on the PS3 in the very near future, offering much of what is available via a regular web browser.

As well as being able to update your status, photo sharing and emails, there is also an option to save screen shots from the Xbox 360 games to show on Facebook, with the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, being the first of the games to support this application.

rubik's puzzle galaxy: rush

Independent game developer Two Tribes have teamed up with The Game Factory to announce a new series of Rubik inspired WiiWare puzzle games, with the first game of the series Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH being available throughout Europe this Autumn.

Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH has been developed by Two Tribes, the creators of the popular Toki Tori and Worms: Open Warfare 2. The result is a 3D puzzle game that provides puzzlers with hours of fun across more than 70 brain-busting levels.

Utilizing the intuitive Wii controls, players ‘herd’ coloured cubes to their exit points across stylish environments using a crazy mix of tools including conveyor belts, warps and stop signs.

In addition to the 70-plus levels included, Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH also features the original Rubik’s Cube gameplay as a bonus. Players can try to solve one of the four sizes available, play the unique pattern matching score mode, learn how to solve the original Rubik’s Cube and even compete in the two player mode. Rounding out the package are the online leader boards, with the potential to host tournaments, with prizes awarded to those players who achieve the best scores.

Martijn Reuvers, Managing Director of Two Tribes said;

“We are very excited to be releasing our second WiiWare title. Inspired by the cult classic from the eighties, Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH is a totally fresh and unique 3D puzzle game experience which we can’t wait to show to Wii gamers.”

Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH Highlights:

·      Original 3D puzzle solving gameplay

·      More than 70 brain-busting levels

·      Tailor-made Wii Remote™ control scheme

·      Conveyer Belts, Warps, Stop Signs, Directional Signs, Splits, and more.

·      Stylish environments

·      Classic Rubik’s Cube in four sizes

·      Tutorial on how to solve the original Rubik’s Cube

·      Unique score mode

·      Online leaderboards

For more information visit the Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy website.

The freebe will be available at the FreeWallaceandGromit website from November 4th until Monday November 9th.

In Muzzled! town newcomer, Monty Muzzle, is holding a fundraiser to rebuild the local dog shelter. Gromit soon realizes that Muzzle’s intentions aren’t exactly charitable and he must foil the huckster’s plot to save the town’s investment and rescue his canine friends.

In the review for Muzzled!, Armchair Empire hails the game as the best episode to that point with “strong story (a hallmark of all three episodes), a refreshing setting change to the carnival grounds, and a starring role for Gromit.”  Gamervision said of Muzzled!, “The humor is spot on, the new characters and locations are entertaining, and it’s obvious that Telltale has really found the niche into which Wallace and Gromit’s story fits.”

In addition the full four-episode PC season of Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures will be discounted to $20 (roughly £12 GBP) from $34.95 USD for these same dates in honor of the eccentric inventor and his canine companion’s two decade milestone.

Other Wallace & Gromit gaming news includes the XBLA launch of all four episodes of Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, which will be available on Xbox LIVE® Arcade November 4, selling for 800 Microsoft Points each. The episodes, along with a premium theme and new gamer pics will be available on a special Wallace & Gromit branded destination page on Xbox LIVE Arcade.

Charity Drive - From November 4-8, Telltale is partnering with Wallace & Gromit Children’s Foundation and Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play, making donations to the charities for each full Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures PC season purchased. Telltale is also giving away free digital versions of the games to the children’s hospitals supported by the charities.

Collector’s DVD – Order taking begins November 4 for the Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures full season collector’s DVD for PC, which features all four episodes, behind the scenes videos, Aardman Animation’s Cracking Contraptions animated shorts, game trailers and full galleries from the making of the game, which include never-before-seen concept art.

Stop Stress: A Day of Fury

Independent video game developer Abylight have announced the upcoming launch of their latest game designed for WiiWare, Stop Stress: A Day Of Fury, the complete anti stress therapy for those days when everything that can go wrong, does!

Ever had one of those days when you wish that you had never got out of bed?

In Stop Stress: A Day Of Fury you will take on the persona of Jack, a man with dangerously high blood pressure and possibly the most stressed person on earth, who’s manic urban life is driving him crazy.

The objective of the game is to get stressed-out Jack away from the chaotic life of the city and to fulfill the ultimate dream of living a stress free zen-like existence.

Unfortunately for our hero Jack, the path to a trauma free life is littered with madcap enemies including a killer toaster, baby gorilla and a crazy cop hell bent on making you lose your cool.

To deal with these wacky menaces players use a selection of crazy weapons including a slipper, axe and giant baseball bat as they proceed to wreak total carnage on anything and everything in their path.

To progress to the next level, players need to destroy everything they can get their hands on. Featuring three different levels of difficulty within four different unabated and chaotic scenarios, the stress won’t halt, until you stop it or the stress stops your heart.

“With its frantic gameplay, manic enemies and vibrant environments, Stop Stress: A Day of Fury is the perfect game to be born out of our Jungleland, said Manu Ruperez from Jungleland, “We look forward to it becoming one of the cult hits of the year.”

Stop Stress: A Day of Fury is rated PEGI +12 and will be available on the Wii Shop Channel.

For more information please visit the official Stop Stress site .