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Family Game Night is fun for the family

Posted May 16th 2008 11:00AM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News

Remember when your family used to put one night of the week aside to play board games, so that you'd grow closer to one another amongst bouts of innocent fun and mayhem? Yeah, neither do we. Hasbro does, though, which is why the company is bringing six of its most popular board games to the Wii, in one small package.

Called Family Game Night (not to be confused with Wii Fanboy's Game Night), this title includes the following classics:

Connect Four
Yahtzee (not the one that curses a lot)
Battleship
Boggle
Sorry!
Sorry! Sliders (who wants to tell EA and Hasbro that this doesn't count as a "sixth" game?)

We know that going digital is the wave of the future, but is anyone else slightly against the entire "board games turned video games" genre? Call us old-fashioned, but when we cheat at Battleship, we want to cheat with style -- not by looking at a TV screen.

If you think differently, though, keep an eye out for Family Game Night, which will hit European Wiis this fall.

[Via press release]

EA's Nerf N-Strike is Nerf onscreen and off [update]

Posted Feb 13th 2008 9:45AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News

EA's deal with Hasbro is starting to bear fruit, with announcements of Littlest Pet Shop and Nerf N-Strike games on the DS and Wii. The press release revealing these games has something wonderful buried within it that instantly upgrades Nerf N-Strike from "nondescript licensed game" to "please tell us more":

"With the brand new custom Nerf blaster, players can then take the action outside as their controller transforms to fire actual Nerf darts!"

Take that, Wii Zapper (and by that, we mean a barrage of Nerf darts). The Nerf Wiimote shell was nice, but this is how you integrate the squishy weapons with waggling. The new Wii Crotch Missile is the perfect companion piece to the Wii Crotch Bat!

[Update: thanks to Shacknews, we can now gaze upon the Wii Nerf gun. It's amazing.]
[Via Siliconera]

EA and Hasbro start casual relationship

Posted Aug 10th 2007 2:25PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News

Atari got lucky by jumping on Jenga when they did! As part of their new casual games initiative, EA has partnered with Hasbro to create games "based upon a huge array of Hasbro's intellectual properties, including Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Nerf, Tonka and Littlest Pet Shop, to name a few."

We desperately want to make fun of the idea of Hasbro toys on Wii, but we've already got Nerf stuff, and board games actually seem to work out nicely on Xbox Live. Maybe more board games would be a good idea! The big deal for us would be online play, and we hope EA realizes that.

Littlest Pet Shop may not need to make the transition to video games, however. We can do without that one. We got a little creeped out just looking at those droopy-eyed characters.

[Via Joystiq]

Rumor: Atari building Wii Jenga game

Posted Jun 19th 2007 3:15PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Rumors

According to NeoGAFer grindamasta, Atari will be showing a new, previously unnanounced game at E3: Jenga. We have no idea what it is, although we are pretty sure it'll at least be block-stacking themed.

If all there is is the main Jenga game, we'd have to question the point of playing a virtual version with Wiimotes instead of just paying the $10 for the real thing. Even if the Wiimote is totally the best choice for a Jenga simulation. But again, we don't know! It could be a Puzzle Quest-style RPG with Jenga battling. Or Jenga Kart Racing.

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LEGO Batman	Sept. TBA
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LEGO Batman

Sept. TBA

Star Wars: Force Unleashed

Sept. 16

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Family Game Night is fun for the family

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EA and Hasbro start casual relationship

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