Our own
LadyDragon was flew in to the event at the
internet Electric Bean café in Toronto courtesy
of Hasbro Interactive. At the café we were able
to try and their new games first hand. All their
new line up was available for us to try from
their email games like X-Com to their Family game
like Super Scattegories.
Here is the list
of their games you can look forward too this
available for the Christmas Holiday's
Email Games
Email games are
getting quite popular that is why they release
more for us to enjoy when we go get our mail.
These are the email games now available to
purchase Scrabble, Battleship, Chess, Nascar, NFL
Football, X-Com and Clue and Risk to be release.
Atari Games
Atari old games
are quite a success for Hasbro so that is why
they bringing them on PC but now in a 3D world.
You can play Pong in a table-tennis-style, with
Q*Bert you navigate in a cube mazes, and Tetris
is back with new graphics and sounds with a
multiplayer mode
Kids and Children
Games
If you are
looking for games for your child this Christmas.
Tonka Construction II is back with 14 Tonka
vehicles in six new landscapes, CatDog Nickelson
is arcade-style adventure of a a two head
creature in one body, Furby where you explore
different worlds has Furby, Thomas and Friends
you will help Thomas getting ready for a
festivals, Stuart Little the favorite children
mouse takes on The Big Apple and 5 more cities in
a fun adventure and a new version of Monopoly in
a 3D - amusement park.
Adult Games
In the Adult
games they had their best sellers of the year
RollerCoaster Tycoon, where you build an
amusement park with of course roller coasters in
it, Worms Armageddon a unique fun action strategy
game where you need to position your worms to win
and Nerf ArenBlast 3D shooter kind of games with
bright colors where you need to blast your way
through 8 arenas so you can win the Nerf
ArenaBlast Championship.
Interactive Games
All these
interactive games you will interact differently
with each of them. The Easy Bake Kitchen where
you have key-top playset kitchen counter full of
appliance like a mini-oven and a cake decorator,
Nerf Junior Foam Fighter that comes with gun
where you shoot at different moving target and
Clue Jr. SpyGlas that comes with a SpyGlass to
help you find clues to explore and find the
precious artifact that was stolen in the museum.
Family Games
Hasbro is without
a doubt the best family game company. Super
Scattegories where you need to come up with the
best word in order to win, Rubik's Game the
famous cube game, Howard Mark Video Casino Game
play blackjack , poker and more. We also were
treated with a new version of there classic like
Monopoly, Trivia Pursuit II and Scrabble II
making better then ever.
Like you can see
Hasbro Interactive works hard in being a leader
in the industry by developing, publishing and
distributing high quality games. Last year they
bough Microprose and this year Wizard of the
Coast. I had the chance at lunch to discuss that
with Joan Ramsay the marketing and sales director
of Canada. I was discussing that GT Interactive
was bought by Infogrames and that Hasbro was
interested in buying it also at one point. I ask
her if they were planning to buy more companies ?
If something comes up and it make sense in their
plan they might buy more. she Joan. As of now
they are the third biggest publisher so I think
they are here to stay as leader in the industry
for high quality games. Already Their new
divisions Wizard of the Coast has bough the
license to develop the RPG games of Lucas Arts
the Star Wars series. So they are entering the
new millennium with a strong line up.
LadyDragon.Com
would like to thank Joan Ramsay, Stephanie
Baxter, Terry McArcren and Shanon Rainey for
flying us to Toronto so we could cover their
Conference.
- LadyDragon
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