October 9th 2007: Northamptonshire, UK: Oxygen Games™ is delighted to announce that King of Clubs is now shipping for Playstation®2 and PC and will be in the shops from October 26th.

King of Clubs is an innovative, yet humorous tongue-in-cheek game, which combines traditional kitsch seaside crazy golf (except that it’s set in the Nevada desert!) with the challenge of finding new ways of completing each hole with as few shots as possible – perhaps even scoring a hole in none!

Featuring 90 holes (plus a further six bonus holes), players can accumulate cash rewards, plus unlock bonuses and new equipment to further enable their mastery of the courses. These are spread across five themes; Prehistoric, Egyptian, Medieval, Hawaiian Tiki and Sci-Fi, each with multiple solutions and full of dodgy animatronics, peeling plywood scenery, plus cheesy music and dubious course pros to match!

Unlocks and bonuses include balls that go farther, fly higher, bounce more or just stick to where they land…amongst others. In addition, there are several clubs to be had, which allow the player to chip, pitch, punch or swerve their balls around the courses. Mulligan tokens are also available to let the player to re-take a fluffed shot and cosmetic additions let players customize their game with specific sounds, ball designs and colours…and opponent taunts!

Multiple single-player modes allow the player to work through the levels, unlocking new equipment and characters as they progress, whilst the multiplayer modes allow players to select from all equipment and levels, without needing to first unlock them, although each player begins with the same amount of cash. This variety of modes, pick-ups, levels and the various effects of different equipment, all give the game immense party-game potential and longevity.

King of Clubs, for up to four players, will be in shops from October 26th, for PC and Playstation®2.

Holy algae! SpongeBob and Patrick tumble upon the lost magical amulet that will take them to the legendary city of Atlantis.
Players will join them and the rest of their Bikini Bottom pals as they ride on a magical bus for a soaking new adventure. Hoping to
uncover the treasures of Atlantis in order to fulfill SpongeBob’s dream of finding the “World’s Oldest Bubble,” players will control
whether the city brings everything he desires, or if Plankton’s evil plan will burst his bubble.

Features:

• Relive the best moments from the TV episode
• Explore the lost city of Atlantis and meet new characters
• Play as six key characters from the show, including SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Plankton
• Unlockable bonus features include:
• – ‘Director’s Commentary’ featuring SpongeBob himself talking about being in the game!
• – Additional variations of every level
• – Extra arcade games
• Replayable levels so players can beat their best score
• Exciting multiplayer mini-games in the Amoeba Arcade
• Drive the Atlantean tank and fire ice cream at enemies
• Create music to power the magical bus to Atlantis
• Customize SpongeBob with new accessories, outfits and expressions

Bait Your Hooks and Catch Some Bass In SEGA’s Upcoming Fishing Game

SEGA Bass Fishing is back and better than ever returning with all-new intuitive controls utilizing the Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™. With over 20 different types of lures to choose from, gamers can cast off using the Wii Remote to try and land one of four different types of freshwater bass. SEGA Bass Fishing also offers gamers the freedom to select time-of-day and season during play which impacts the activity of the fish, their appetite, and their depth. When players hook a big one, they can use the motion sensor to reel it in! Featuring 15 beautifully designed lake environments, SEGA Bass Fishing has four fun-filled game modes including Arcade, Tournament, Practice and Nature Trip modes.

London 9th October 2007: Screen Digest (www.screendigest.com) today launches the Games Bulletin, a new service for the video games industry. Providing periodic, data-rich updates on 256 bit games publishing, gamer demographics and industry forecasting trends, the first volume focuses on software publishing in the final quarter of 2007.

See pdf for chart: http://www.vision6.com.au/ch/vt53m6/308444/e849cmy2r.pdf

The Games Bulletin analyses aggregated data from all 256 bit physical retail releases scheduled for release in the final quarter of 2007, identifying trends in publishing, platform support, content (exclusives, IP, licensing, genre) and games development.

Publisher commitment is shifting significantly to Nintendo’s Wii with 86 titles scheduled for release in Q4, compared with 47 for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and 38 for Sony’s PlayStation 3. A quarter of Wii releases are exclusive to the platform – compared with eight for the Xbox 360 and five for Playstation 3.

Wii is proving attractive to publishers not only because of its rapidly growing installed base, but also thanks to lower development costs and the relative ease of transferring development resources to the platform compared with its 256 bit counterparts. As a result Screen Digest expects that the number of games available for Wii will surpass Xbox 360’s library in early 2008 at current release rates.

See pdf for chart: http://www.vision6.com.au/ch/vt53m6/308444/e849cmy2r.pdf

Armed with the most exclusives as well as the release of Super Mario Galaxy, Screen Digest believes that Wii is likely to lead the 256 bit market in the final quarter of 2007. The Xbox 360 platform will be driven by an increasingly well established US user base enjoying a combination of strong multiplatform releases and a persistent Halo 3. Given the competition, Sony’s release schedule lacks the firepower to command consumer attention during this crucial trading quarter and it is difficult to see how the catalogue will drive hardware sales in such a competitive environment.

Further analysis of Q4 releases underlines the importance of the UK as a key territory for console games development, which leads the European territories and, given its size, is more than holding its own against the US and Japan.

Ed Barton, Screen Digest Games Analyst and author of the first Games Bulletin, commented “Halo 3 commanded the attention of the mass market and we expect Super Mario Galaxy for Wii to continue the process of educating the consumer as to the benefits of the current generation of home consoles. Given present publishing activity levels and hardware sales rates, we expect 256 bit gaming to have moved out of transition and squarely into the mass adoption phase by year end. While Wii and Xbox 360 are likely to look back on 2007 with some satisfaction, the same cannot be said for PS3. Given the platform’s release schedule this Christmas, it is not a surprise that Sony is focusing on lowering the cost of entry to PS3 platform to maintain parity with its rivals this Christmas.”

MixMaster Online has started an iPod Give away event. All MixMaster players have the chance to win 2x iPods by just sending an email to their friends about the event. This event is expected to increase on around 50,000 memberships MixMaster has attracted in less than 6months since its service.

Together with the iPod give away event, SeedC Pacific are looking to have other big additions to MixMaster in October.

There will be the relaunch of the ever popular Lucky Door Prize, which is sure to excite most active users. There will be more additional maps and monsters as well as a massive Halloween Event scheduled.

Together with upgrade of the official website, MixMaster is looking to take a significant step evolution in October.

Jin Joo, the Project Manager of MixMaster says “We are planning many big upgrades in October for MixMaster. We organized the iPod event to maximize on our MixMaster evolution. We hope all new users can experience the in depth game play of MixMaster”

“We’re planning to start a new portal site in the next few months which is aimed to build a community more than just a game site, this is like a warm up for that.” Kyiel Lee, the CEO of SeedC Pacific commented. “The new portal site will have many never seen before features. We hope these can entertain gamers and non gamers of all ages in a unique way. We want to create a next generation online community. MixMaster is our first product but we will definitely add more contents. Likely to be an FPS next”.

SeedC will be looking to do many promotions such as give away to increasing some market credibility for the launch of the portal site.

Product Description
MixMaster is an anime style MMORPG aimed at teenagers. The game is completely free download and free play. In Mixmaster, the main character will be accompanied by monster companion called Henches. These Henches can be mixed to become even stronger monsters. With over 350 monsters, players will not be short of choosing their favorite Hench.
http://www.mixmaster.com.au

This guy is awesome… he is gonna take some beating!!!!!! Nick Tan is his name….

 They said it couldnt be beaten…. they were wrong!!!

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