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Majesco Announces Bananagrams for Facebook

Casual game publisher extraordinaire Majesco says that it is planning to make a move to Facebook, in an effort to broaden its portfolio of games and to attract a bigger audience. It has chosen developers Rocketbowl and the Shapshot Studio of Large Animal Games to create Bananagrams. The game, due for an August releas...

25 July 2008
03:21 GMT

Conquer Shuffled Dungeons in a New RPG

Casual games publisher Majesco is announcing that it plans to bring Away Shuffle Dungeon to Europe and North America right after the game is released on the Japanese market. The role playing game is being created by Mistwalker and AQ Interactive, with Hironobu Sakaguchi, of the Final Fantasy fame, taking the helm as ...

8 July 2008
03:11 GMT

Doodle on Your Nintendo DS with Marker Man Adventures

Majesco, one of the best known creators and publishers of casual games, is announcing its new title, Marker Man Adventures, which is being developed by Glyphic Entertainment. It is based on the concept of drawing as a gaming device, making players use their drawing skills to solve certain puzzle and physics challenge...

3 July 2008
02:46 GMT

Majesco Cooking up World Kitchen for the Nintendo Wii

Majesco is announcing that it is preparing to release another Cooking Mama game in 2008. It is entitled Cooking Mama World Kitchen and is only being developed for the Nintendo Wii gaming console. The aim is to get the game out to players in time for the holiday season, which, for videogame publishers, begins sometime...

2 July 2008
15:56 GMT

Escape the Museum with a Wii

Find the hidden object (or hunt and find adventure, as some call it) is one of the most successful genres in casual gaming on personal computers. However, Majesco Entertainment plans to bring such games to the consoles and the developers consider Nintendo's Wii the best to take on such a responsibility. Therefor...

20 June 2008
02:46 GMT

Majesco Wants You to Get Ultimate Fitness

Majesco is continuing its series of game announcements by telling us that it plans to enter the market of fitness games with the upcoming release of Fitness Ultimatum 2009, also known as Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum. The game is set to debut in retail sometime around the coveted holiday season and is bein...

13 June 2008
02:16 GMT

Orchard Arrives on the PC

Publisher Majesco is announcing that it is preparing to release its first casual game for the PC market, called Orchard. The game is being developed by BoomZap Entertainment, which recently also created the game Zen Fashion, and will likely be done in time for the release sometime near the holiday season.From the ini...

12 June 2008
02:44 GMT

Wonder World Amusement Park Coming to the DS

Majesco Entertainment is announcing that a Nintendo DS version of its Wonder World Amusement Park game is in development, with the game aiming for a holiday 2008 release date. There's also a Wii version of this title, developed by Coyote Entertainment. The game is aimed to the more casual gamer and tries to re-c...

29 May 2008
03:46 GMT

Epic Acquires Chair Entertainment

Epic Games is announcing that Chair Entertainment, the creator of the Xbox Live Arcade exclusive Undertow, powered by Epic's Unreal engine, will become a direct subsidiary of Epic, directly responsible for developing new games based on the Unreal engine.Chair Entertainment is a relatively new company, just found...

21 May 2008
02:56 GMT

Air Traffic Is Bringing Chaos to the DS

The Nintendo DS might have had a recent slowdown in sales, especially in Japan, but the way it combines accessibility with a unique control scheme based on the touchscreen makes the Nintendo handheld one of the top choices when it comes to creating fun and easy-to-play games that can attract a wide array of players.A...

17 April 2008
02:53 GMT

Cooking Mama Is a Bestseller, Ironing Grandma to Come?

If people thought that the casual games can't be associated with the concept of "best sellers" or, at least, platinum, this piece of news will probably come as a big surprise. Majesco Entertainment has just announced that the Cooking Mama franchise is a market hit, having sold 1.6 million copies for both Nintend...

31 January 2008
06:07 GMT

Toy Shop DS - Create Toys, Manage Store Inventory, Customers and Budget

Nintendo's DS is one of the best platforms for releasing fun and educational games on. It is actually perfect for games that are both fun and educational, like Majesco Entertainment's upcoming simulation title Toy Shop. The game has players struggling to get a toy shop back on its feet by creating ever more...

18 January 2008
03:14 GMT

Cake Mania 2 Confirmed for DS and Wii

Everyone remembers Cake Mania right? You know, one of the first top-50 titles available for free download in an advertising-supported model...? That's the one! Well, good ol' Majesco Entertainment the game's original developer, Sandlot Games, have announced a sequel for the DS version of the game. Digi...

10 January 2008
02:40 GMT

Bust-A-Move Bash! Unlockables (Wii)

Bust-A-Move Bash! (formerly known as Bust-A-Move Revolution) is a video game released by Majesco Entertainment for Nintendo's Wii. Nothing specific about the game was revealed before it hit store shelves. However, the vice president of Majesco marketing, Ken Gold, had stated that Majesco did "intend to maximize ...

25 October 2007
10:33 GMT

Xbox 360 - High Definition Fighting with Genki's 'Kengo Zero'

Kengo Zero, Genki's highly anticipated fighting-action title, has finally been confirmed for the Xbox 360, slated for a release in fall. Players will be set in a high definition feudal Japan, on a mission to become the best samurai warrior in the land."Kengo Zero's stunning high definition graphics bring th...

30 May 2007
18:51 GMT

Majesco's 'Operation: Vietnam' for the DS - Lead Your Squad Back to Safety

Nintendo's DS is getting Operation: Vietnam from Majesco Entertainment. The game is currently in development over at the Coyote Console studios, slated for a worldwide release sometime this fall. In Operation: Vietnam, gamers have to try and escape enemy territory, after they've been dropped into the war-to...

16 May 2007
11:28 GMT

Having Trouble with Cooking Mama?

Cooking Mama: Cook Off is a video game for the Wii, developed by OfficeCreate and published by Majesco. As any game for the Wii, its main purpose is to provide loads of fun for the players with the Wii's one-of-a-kind motion sensitive control system. The game however, once released proved to be quite difficult a...

25 April 2007
05:03 GMT

Next-Gen Puzzler - Bust-A-Move Bash! for the Wii

We've heard of puzzle games, action puzzlers, logic games that normally launch on handhelds and mobile phones. Few of them make it on the big consoles and even less on the next-gen consoles. But here's one that actually made it on the Wii.Bust-A-Move Bash! is Majesco Entertainment's second game for the...

18 April 2007
06:27 GMT




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