Published: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Puzzle Quest™ 2, Kidz Bop® Dance Party! The Video Game,
Despicable Me™: The Game™, Ben 10 Ultimate Alien™: Cosmic Destruction,
and Family Party: Fitness Fun™ to be Shown in D3Publisher’s Casual and Family-Friendly E3 2010 Lineup
LOS ANGELES – June 9, 2010 – D3Publisher, a videogame publisher for Wii™, Nintendo DS™, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, will be showcasing its upcoming roster of titles during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), taking place June 15-17, 2010.
The D3Publisher booth will be located in the South Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center, Booth #835 and will feature a wide variety of games for players of all ages and skill levels. The full list of games being shown is included below:
- Puzzle Quest ™ 2 – This brand new adventure from Infinite Interactive, the award winning developer of the supreme puzzle-RPG experience, features a hallmark blend of match-3 gem matching and fantasy.
- Kidz Bop® Dance Party! The Video Game – Players create the ultimate dance party in their living rooms as they move and groove to 24 chart-topping KIDZ BOP hits ‘sung by kids for kids’ such as “Paparazzi,” “Party in the USA,” and “Thriller,” appealing to family members of all ages.
- Despicable Me™: The Game– Based on Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s 3-D CGI feature film, Despicable Me™: The Game offers a unique blend of action and puzzle solving that combines the fun of commanding an army of mischievous, little yellow minions and using an arsenal of despicable weapons, gadgets, and vehicles that will entertain players of all ages.
- Ben 10 Ultimate Alien™: Cosmic Destruction – Based on Cartoon Network’s all-new television series, this interactive game from D3Publisher will allow players to wield the power of the all-new Ultimatrix, the strongest Omnitrix to date, to transform Ben into more powerful, hyper-evolved alien forms and experience impressive battles as the most ultimate aliens for the first time in never before seen places.
- Family Party: Fitness Fun™ – The fourth entry in the Family Party series, this title gives players the chance to get up and get active with up to four players. Offering a wide variety of minigames, and including the use of the Wii™ Balance Board™ for the first time, Family Party: Fitness Fun offers great activities at a reasonable price.
For more information about any of these titles, please visit www.d3publisher.us.
Author: E3Updates StaffPublished: Monday, June 7, 2010
Calabasas, CA and Helsinki, Finland – June 7, 2010 – Virtual Air Guitar Company Ltd, a Helsinki –based independent game developer and computer vision specialist, announced today a licensing agreement with Emergent Game Technologies to use its groundbreaking development engine, Gamebryo LightSpeed, for its upcoming fighting adventure game, Kung-Fu LIVE, coming to PlayStation® Network.
Kung-Fu LIVE is an interactive experience unlike anything seen before! Using Virtual Air Guitar Company’s patented Freemotion® technology combined with the PlayStation®Eye, the game accurately tracks a player’s moves and scans the player inside the game. Boosted with super-human abilities, the player literally becomes the hero of the game. Toss away the gamepad and kick, jump, flip and throw punches against a growing swarm of baddies – Kung-Fu LIVE is all about hands-free, real-time movement and action.
“Emergent was very supportive and really believed in this project, helping us from our initial prototype through getting the game up and running,” said Teemu Mäki-Patola, CEO of Virtual Air Guitar Company Ltd. “As a small studio, Emergent’s team helped us make a better game. We also appreciate that integrating our internally created Freemotion technology with the engine was very simple, making the overall experience with LightSpeed and Emergent an extremely positive one.”
Emergent’s LightSpeed is the newest leap forward in game development technology delivering the only professional technology for start-to-finish multi-genre/multi-platform game development. Enabling rapid prototyping, rapid iteration and rapid production, LightSpeed simplifies game development for studios like Virtual Air Guitar Company through a data driven framework that opens doors to exciting game-play possibilities. Studios are empowered to create their single-player, online and multi-player games in any genre with Emergent’s one-stop cross-platform toolset for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox®360 video game system from Microsoft, Wii™ and PC.
Virtual Air Guitar Company will be hosting hands-on demos of Kung-Fu LIVE at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) June 15-17, 2010. To book an appointment to play the game at E3 please contact Tracie Snitker, tracie@reverbinc.com. For more information and assets on Kung-Fu LIVE, please visit www.kungfulivegame.com
For more information about Emergent and their technology offerings, please visit www.emergent.net