The Dog Island Wii

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Today

Collier St. United Church Women invite you and your friends to their annual Maytime Tea from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Come and enjoy afternoon tea/coffee with sandwiches and goodies for $5, then browse and shop at the boutiques. Available items include linens, frozen fruit pies, fresh butter tarts, garden plants, homemade quiche, spaghetti sauce, soup and baked goods.

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DRAGON QUEST and IVALICE ALLIANCE Set to Deploy in North America

LOS ANGELES, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix(TM) interactive entertainment products in North America, today announced that it is bringing the next installments in the celebrated DRAGON QUEST(R) franchise and the all-new IVALICE ALLIANCE(TM) to North America. This exciting announcement brings forth four new titles that are set to revolutionize the way players experience video gaming on the Nintendo DS(TM), Wii(TM) and the PSP(R) (PlayStation(R)Portable) system in the coming year.

Having sold more than 41 million units worldwide, DRAGON QUEST is the premiere RPG franchise that has captivated audiences around the world for more than 20 years. Combining ingenious gameplay elements from series creator Yuji Horii, character designs from famed artist Akira Toriyama and music from renowned composer Koichi Sugiyama, the "big three" of game creators have delivered a timeless franchise that continues to reinvent itself in new and exciting ways.

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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is official

May 21, 2007 -

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Ubisoft Gets More Casual

Major video game publisher Ubisoft has announced an expansion into the ever-growing and lucrative casual games market. The company says it has made significant investments and formed an internal development structure dedicated to the creation of games that appeal a wider audience than the hardcore gamer set. In addition to beefing up its hit Petz franchise, the game maker will introduce a new game series called My Coach.

"Ubisoft has a proven track record of publishing and creating video games for non-traditional gaming audiences, with multimillion-selling brands like Petz and Rayman, says Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. "The timing is right for us to leverage our creativity and to open up the video games market to new consumers who will be attracted by content that can help them learn, grow and feel better in an entertaining way.

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Wii shall overcome, sings George Harrison

Wired has finally published a full transcript of Game|Life's interview with Nintendo's George Harrison, senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications and second-in-command at Nintendo of America.

Wired reckons the money quote is the claim that the Wii will get 40-45% of the hardware market and maybe over 50%, so it's goodbye to Sony's dominance. But there are other interesting quotes, such as this one about the "new demographic", ie Wii gamers now includes your grandma. Harrison says:

One thing you have to remember about the expanded audience is, they are not so focused on a category that something is launched, known by everyone, and done with. And so I think we have to change our mentality. As we got into the months of March and were tracking the awareness, awareness of Wii is still at about 60% among people over 25.

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