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More Dashing On The Way

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE       PlayFirst®, Inc., the leader in interactive entertainment for women, today announced the development of Diner Dash 5: BOOM!, the fifth major title in the award-winning, Diner Dash® series.  In this innovative new game, Flo’s Diner accidentally goes “boom” and it’s up to the player to help rebuild a customized diner.  With more than a 1000 possible combinations, each advancing level allows players to earn tips for the purchase of fixtures, décor and ...

Wedding Dash

Wedding Dash is a spin-off of the popular Diner Dash franchise. I thought it was already published on the Nintendo DS, but apparently I was mistaken. Here we get the game taken from its PC roots and ported over to the portable platform, but there are some compromises that don’t necessarily sit well. In many regards, Wedding Dash is just like Diner Dash: Flo on the Go for the Nintendo DS, just with a different dressing. ...

Diner Dash: Flo on the Go

Flo is the Gordon Ramsey of the videogame world. She has saved more restaurants than I can count and dealt with more food service issues than I would be able to put up with. In Diner Dash: Flo on the Go for the DS the long suffering title character is trying to take a well deserved vacation but she somehow gets sucked back into the kitchen once again. Maybe she should switch careers and write ...

News Briefs (11-24-09)

Tamba Bay Ray Evan Longoria is announced as the cover athlete for Major League Baseball 2K10. ………………..………………..………………..……………….. New tracks for Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero are now available for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. There is a free track pack featuring songs from bands that include Neversoft employees. The contents of the Neversoft Thanks the Fans Track Pack: “Lemon Frosting” by Bunny Knutson “RockNRola” by Nancy Fullforce “From the Blue/Point of No Return/T.T.R.T.S” by an Endless Sporadic “Love Holds ...

News Briefs (11-18-09)

The full game manual for PT Boats: Knights of the Sea is now available in advance of the game being available. http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_flippingbook&book_id=14 ………………………………………………………………………… Zombie Driver, an action driving game, will be available at digital distribution and retail this holiday season. Zombie Driver is an alternative for all other zombie themed games with a unique, oldschool, car driving gameplay style. It will be a good "snack" for zombie action fans this holiday. ………………………………………………………………………… Next year to see Kane & Lynch 2: ...

News Briefs (10-27-09)

  MMO Bright Shadow has entered open beta testing. ………………..………………..………………..………………..   The Nintendo DSi is getting Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal late next year.   In Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal, players are challenged to find and capture apparitions trapped within their own environment by using the Nintendo DSi(TM) Camera and ghost tuner to access alternative frequencies beyond the standard Wi-Fi range. Spirits, shadows and demons all have their own personalities, so finding and "solving" them is anything but easy. Some ...

Diner Dash (Hands On)

Diner Dash was a hugely successful Flash game that came out a few years ago. It was ported to the DS, PSP, and the iPhone/iPod Touch. The premise was simple, you played Flo who left the corporate world and started her own restaurant.  Legend of Zelda it isn’t, but who needs deep story for a Flash game? The game spawned a couple of sequels, but now Hudson is porting and expanding the original for the ...

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Some Download Dashing

FROM THE PRESS RLEEASE     Fans of the classic franchise Diner Dash® can rejoice as Hudson Entertainment will dish out a brand-new version of Diner Dash for Xbox LIVE® Arcade, PlayStation®Network and WiiWareTM starting this Summer.  As in the classic action-strategy game, players will take control of Flo™, a waitress building a run-down diner into a success, one customer at a time. The Diner Dash series, licensed by Hudson from PlayFirst, Inc., has sold more than 2 ...

Dashing To Pogo

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE Ditch your desk job and serve up some grub! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced a collaborative partnership between Pogo.comT82; and PlayFirst® to create a brand new multiplayer Diner Dash® experience with downloadable game Diner Dash Family Style. The game will take the breakthrough best seller Diner Dash and add in community and multiplayer features to allow fans to experience the game in a new social environment. Diner Dash ...

Download Dash

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE Leading casual games publisher, PlayFirst, Inc., today announced a partnership with Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm of Hudson Soft, to bring several popular PlayFirst titles, beginning with the smash hit, Diner Dash®, to digital download services for console systems in 2008. Additional titles included in the deal are Mystery of Shark Island™, Sandscript™, Zenerchi™, the award-winning Oasis™ and PlayFirst’s new hit game, Chocolatier™. “Our strategy has always included a keenly ...

Diner Dash

It seems like it’s a tricky idea to take a real-life job and turn it into a videogame. On the one hand, real-life jobs like doctors (Trauma Center) and lawyers (Phoenix Wright) are the kind of things not everyone is cut out to do, but everyone would still like to feel what it’s like in those shoes. In addition, more common jobs like driving a taxi (Crazy Taxi) can be made more interesting with ...

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Diner Dash

Diner Dash and its female protagonist, Flo, exemplify the growing demand for casual games across an increasing number of gaming platforms.

Eidos Dahsing To Handheld

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, and PlayFirst, Inc., one of the leading publishers of casual games today announced a partnership to bring the PC downloadable brand, Diner Dash(TM), to leading handheld game platforms, including Sony PSP(TM), Nintendo DS(TM) and GameBoy(TM) Advance. Already a top-selling title in the casual games space on PC and mobile phones, Diner Dash and its female protagonist, Flo, exemplify ...

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