Michael Mullen reports:
''Two years ago, EA tried an experiment. Ponder a concept for about six months and see if they could make a game out of it. The team, comprised of Rob (exec producer), Lydia (audio), Dom (designer) and Jacques (art) were asked to create a new children's concept for the mainstream. Of course, success was always the goal and, ultimately, to turn that concept into a game. To make it harder, the team, who had limited experience with handheld games, made the bold decision to create the game for a single platform, the Nintendo DS. The result, called Zubo, lives up to the experiment's goals but only gamers will decide its success.
Early in the experiment, Jacques started creating these little characters comprised of a head, a torso, arms, legs and big eyes. The result was somewhere between Japanese anime meets French comic books meets a Gorillaz video meets Kubrick figurines.''
From Atlanta Video Game News Examiner:
"Halloween is past and Thanksgiving is fast approaching. That means it is time to start planning for your holiday shopping. One of the biggest problems when shopping for gamers is making sure that you buy a quality game that they will enjoy. There's nothing worse than getting a game for someone and finding out that it is buggy, has bad controls, or just isn't fun at all. So, we've come up with the best bets of recent releases for the two major hand-held platforms (Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP) for the 2009 holiday shopping season. We've broken it down not just by hand-helds but by genres as well. So click through on the links below for the hand-held and genre you'll be shopping for this year."
John Tucker writes "In any genre of games, there are some entries that appeal to the masses, some that only hardcore fans have the background to enjoy, and some that are intended to bring in new fans. Many times, these last efforts are geared at younger players, and that makes sense. Zubo is clearly one of these "gateway" games, intended to bring younger players into the fold of RPG fans, and I was actually surprised to see it come out of EA."
SV:
Zubo is a music-based rhythm action game featuring a likeable set of characters. Players enter the world of Zubalon to help its inhabitants, the Zubos, defeat an evil force bent on world domination. Players befriend the Zubos they meet along the way. You will feed and nurture them, help them gain skills and strength, and assist them in their battles with the enemy, the Zombos.
