Majesco, best known these days for Cooking Mama, acquired the rights to publish a slew of games from Data East’s library and are making a compilation disc for Wii.

Who would have guessed Cooking Mama would grow into a hit franchise and span games that had nothing do with cooking? Majesco that’s who and they’re banking heavily on a Mama series.
 
Gardening Mama, Pet Shop Mama, and today according to a US registered trademark, Babysitting Mama. I think the title is self explanatory. Unlike [...]

Back in the ’90s, when full motion video was all the rage, American Laser Games made a shooter set in the Wild West called Mad Dog McCree. This game is not a on rails light gun game. Mad Dog McCree is more like live action Duck Hunt. Players shot actors bandits and watched them roll [...]

I’ll leave the obligatory release date shuffling joke out, but something went very awry with the North American launch of Away: Shuffle Dungeon. First Majesco says it’s coming out in October, then it gets pushed to December at the last minute, and today Majesco sends a press release that it “shipped” to stores. Meanwhile [...]

At the last minute Majesco shuffled the release date for Away: Shuffle Dungeon from October to December. Hopefully, this extra time will give someone a chance to balance the difficulty so Away: Shuffle Dungeon isn’t a walk in the park.
 
So, if Away: Shuffle Dungeon got delayed why is it in stock and shipping at [...]

Cooking Mama may have a rival made by Activision. The publisher recently trademarked Math Papa and Science Papa for use with things like “video game programs; computer game cartridges”. In plain English these may be titles for upcoming games where a fatherly character runs through science training on some system. This reminds me of a [...]

In a strange revelation we are getting Away: Shuffle Dungeon, but it won’t be published by Xseed even though AQ Interactive is their parent company. The good news is Away: Shuffle Dungeon is up to Xseed localization standards. I guess Xseed is too busy working with other projects in addition to their Marvelous Interactive relationship…
 
As [...]

It seems like forever since we discovered Tumiki Fighters was coming to the Wii. Budcat Creation’s take on the sticky shooter has been upgraded with user created content. Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy lets players craft ships with their own bullet patterns, and unique stages. Custom content can then be shared through Nintendo Wi-Fi trading [...]

Air Traffic Chaos hasn’t been officially announced as a Nintendo DS game, but Gamefly thinks it exists. Since Majesco hasn’t mentioned anything about Air Traffic Chaos, I get to speculate what this could be. Two thoughts immediately popped into my mind:
 
1.) This is a localization of Air Traffic Controller DS, which Sonic Powered had [...]

The more I visit Etsy, the more I fall in love with the stuff I find there.
 
A perfect example is this lighthearted print based on the Cooking Mama game. Printed on top of a cookbook recipe, it's the perfect way to adorn your walls with video game inspired art and not be too literal about [...]