PSN, WiiWare, XBLA: ESRB Updates - PSN Gets 'Jeopardy!', Wii Gets 'Big Kahuna Party'!
This week's ESRB updates brings us news of a whole bunch of titles for the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and for WiiWare.
First of all, on the XBLA front - it appears that a title based on the TV show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? with the subtitle Make the Grade might be coming to the service. It will be released by ValuSoft - a subset of THQ. Their only other Xbox game is Rocket Riot, which is an Arcade title, so this may be one also.
If so, it's a good addition to the Xbox Live library. It will be interesting to see how far a release like this will go, if it will simply be stuck within English speaking countries or go for that worldwide audience that Wits & Wagers currently lacks. The picture above is from THQ's PC version... hopefully it'll look better than that.
Also rated was Sierra's Interpol title, announced just last month.
On the PlayStation Network - Jeopardy! The classic game show starring Alex Trebek has the player answering a whole slew of questions. It's definitely something that could do very well on the PlayStation Network. Hopefully they add a Celebrity Jeopardy add on.
Along with that was the rating for Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty, which we've talked about plenty recently, and Linger in Shadows - a bizarre, crazy visual experience akin to the European demo scene, apparently. Certainly sounds promising!
And for the Wii we have Big Kahuna Party. Unannounced as a WiiWare title, but certainly looks to be going in that direction. It's being made by Reflexive Entertainment, who have previously worked on Wik: Fable of Souls and the upcoming title Axiom Overdrive (which we haven't seen for some time) for Xbox Live Arcade.
Big Kahuna Party is one of their other games already released on the PC, but called 'Big Kahuna Reef'. A match-three tile game made on preset boards where you must remove all the wooden panels in order to move to the next level. There is a free version playable online here.
Along with Big Kahuna, we now know that Phantasy Star IV: End of the Millennium will be coming to the Virtual Console as well.
Source: ESRB, Thanks to Shard for reminding me!
Comments
Oh good, good, you read my comments. That is good to know that my voice is not silenced during this dark time. I'll probably be posting newsbites all week around here.
Posted by: Shard of NeoGaf.com | July 8, 2008 4:38 AM
Ohh yeah. Jeopordy. I hope a lot of people get into that. Trivia games are always good fun for me.
Posted by: Clinton514 - NeoGAF | July 8, 2008 7:33 PM
Since I work at Reflexive I thought I'd mention a word about Big Kahuna Party...which should be getting an official announce statement in the near future...
The original game featured multiplayer by using multiple mice. It was a lot of fun, but most people don't have multiple mice and never checked it out. BKP is a game focused around the multiplayer aspect...and it's fun, so look forward to it ;).
Posted by: Russell Carroll | July 8, 2008 10:38 PM