YUKE'S Company of America, subsidiary of Japanese game publisher YUKE'S Company Limited, announced today that NEVES, published by Atlus for the Nintendo DS, has received the highly coveted "Editor's Choice Award" from the editors at Children's Technology Review, a leading professional source of unbiased reviews of interactive technology for children. Additionally, YUKE'S announced that the unique puzzle game will receive a reduction in price to $19.99, effective immediately.
Ignition Entertainment has announced an agreement with Yuke's to bring the popular puzzle game, Neves for the Nintendo DS to Europe in early 2008. The deal marks the first time that Ignition Entertainment and Yuke's, best known for its popular D1 Grand Prix, have worked together.
You can never have too many puzzle games. Well, good puzzle games. The concept of NEVES is certainly promising. In essence, your task is to align pieces of a puzzle and build figures that correspond to a silhouette.
Worthplaying writes: "Track and Field is the name of a series of Olympic themed video games developed by Konami for several platforms since 1983. The first title called "Track & Field" or "Hyper Olympics" outside the United States was released in 1983 as an arcade game. The simple gameplay which was based on dynamically successive button presses (now known as button bashing) has set the rules for sequels and similar games ever since. Track & Field was later released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985 and became one of the most popular NES games of its time.
Konami outline the gameplay features and release date of the upcoming DS game, New International Track and Field.
At the Konami press conference last night, it was revealed that New International Track and Field for the DS has passed Nintendo certification and is ready to ship this summer. The game uses the touch screen to engage players in over 20 sporting events that require frantic thrashing and precise tapping with the stylus. Shouting encouragement will also increase your character’s performance. The quick pick-up-and-play fun is being ...
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In a similar way to Super Smash Bro's the game isnt taking itself too seriously and a number of well known faces from Konami's back catalouge will be joining the birthday celebrations. By completing specific challenges, players can access Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid series and Pyramid Head of Silent Hill fame, among others.
Takashi Tezuka, who has worked on every major Mario platformer with creator Shigeru Miyamoto, wasn't able to comment about a New Super Mario Bros. 2 [two years ago], except to say that he'd love to make any sequel into a 3D Mario on DS as he looked back on Super Mario 64. VGB ponders what the "Super Mario" development team at Nintendo has been working on all this time and what features could be added to a sequel.