Eidos' forthcoming Nintendo DS title Pony Friends represents a new direction for Britsoft's last remaining publishing force, dealing as it does with the nurturing of a stable of ponies.
Pocket Gamer sat down with Eidos director of product acquisitions, Ian Livingstone OBE, otherwise known as the man who co-wrote the Fighting Fantasy novels of the 80s, edited White Dwarf, and co-founded Citadel Miniatures, to find out why he has now turned his attention to casual games.
With there only being a few days left to ensure your internet shopping arrives in time for Christmas, Eidos Interactive and Play.com have team-up to bring you a number of deals of some of the best games form the publisher released in the last twelve months. Available to order now, Mini Ninjas, Championship Manager 2010 and the seminal Batman: Arkham Asylum are all available for a reduced price, along with a number of other titles.
Square Enix London Studios, a part of Square Enix Europe, today announced Pony Friends 2, an exciting new game for pony pals where players can create their perfect pony partner, customise and accessorise, nurture and love, and compete in tricks and challenges.
Gamertell has posted an article that relates a story published in Betty & Veronica Digest Magazine to a surge in female-oriented games being released September 2008.
From the article:
"In an issue of Betty and Veronica Digest Magazine (no. 125, Jan. 2002) with a story titled 'Game Gambit' featuring fictional game maker Zapco Games. The company has asked Betty, the blonde-next-door and sometimes gender-bending teenager, to help test a series of arcade games targeted towards girls. The story starts with Betty claiming most games and being too violent for girls and Zapco shows her a series of prototypes that Betty rejects as being too stereotypical..."
The fictional, stereotypically female-oriented arcade games in the comic book story are strangely close to the eight DS releases listed in the article.
