Taito Releases Space Invaders and Cooking Mama

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Games, $4.99, $6.99

Square Enix’s Taito has released two apps for the iPhone 3G/iPod touch. Space Invaders has all the fun of the original version, bonus content, and can be controlled with the motion sensor or other touch methods. Cooking Mama features both old and new recipies. You can find each at the App Store, with prices $6.99 for the cooking game and $4.99 for the ETs. The company says that there will be other apps available down the road.

Read More | Kotaku

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E3 2008: Cooking Mama World Kitchen Wii Preview

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: High Score, Short Bytes, Features, Home Entertainment, Podcasts, Software, Video Games, Videocasts, Videos

For those of you out there who are fans of the Cooking Mama series of games for the Nintendo DS and Wii, you may be delighted to know that Majesco is about ready to spring the second installment of the Wii portion of the series on you, coming this October. We were able to get a quick demo of the game during E3 2008, and immediately realized that the successor to the original seems to be a better game all around. Specifically, a lot of the frustrating actions you needed to do in the original are replaced by very intuitive Wii Remote actions that anyone can pull off. Also, if you mess up, you aren’t pretty much eliminated like you were the first time around. A few new game modes round things out. Hit the video for all the details, and prepare yourself for more cartoony kitchen battles.

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Wii Inflatable Boxing Gloves

Posted by Lolita Beckwith Categories: Accessories, Toys, Video Games

We’ll resist the urge to make an Oscar De La Hoya-and-fishnets joke and just tell you about these

boxing gloves specifically designed for Nintendo Wii boxing games. Just put your Wiimote and Nunchuk inside the gloves and inflate them. Now you can really live out your dream of being Muhammad (or Laila) Ali.  Much like similar accessories for Wii Sports, fishing games, and even Cooking Mama, the gloves serve to add a sense of “realism”—or goofy fun—to your Wii-playing experience.

Read More | Deal Extreme via Technabob

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Get Cooking With These Wiimote Extensions

Posted by Lolita Beckwith Categories: Accessories, Toys, Video Games

If you’re a Nintendo Wii owner, you’re probably familiar with Wii-mote tennis racket, baseball bat and golf club extensions, to help make your Wii Sports experience even more realistic—or nuttier—depending on your point of view. Now comes a frying-pan and eating utensils version, presumably for the Cooking Mama fanatic. We think it’s a bit much, yet at the same time we’re secretly wondering if a Trauma Center version of scalpels and forceps is in the works. But let’s just keep that between us. Available for $13 USD.

Read More | Goldenshop via DCEmu

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