SkyVu have announced that their iPhone/iPod Touch game, Battle Bears, has been ranking top on iTunes since it's launch on August 31st. the game has currently sold over 800,000 units so far. The object of the game is to kill the waves of Pink teddy bears that come towards you. you are Oliver, a robotic teddy bear, fighting for survival with your gun. if you score a head shot, coloured beams of blood shoot from the enemies necks.
Press Release OMAHA, Neb. --(Business Wire)-- Sep 23, 2009 A brave bear facing fatal hugs from attacking pink teddy bears has earned BATTLE BEARS™ top ranking on iTunes since its launch August 31st. The new game from CORALINE animator Benjamin Vu’s upstart production company SkyVu Pictures, offers adorable animation, a tongue-in-cheek theme and intense bear-on-bear action. BATTLE BEARS went to Top Ten Apps on iTunes in its first week. It remains the #1 Action/Adventure Game and #3 All Games despite stiff competition. The game, currently at 800,000 downloads, is expected to reach one million by the end of September.
The object of the new game: kill cuddly pink teddy bears before they commit “huggacide” with deadly embraces to OLIVER, an advanced robotic teddy bear with a lot of attitude. When OLIVER annihilates the hug-crazed bears, rainbow colored blood beams from their necks or splashes across the moving touch screen. But the homicidal teddies multiply, and each of 20 levels of play leads to more advanced battles, cut scenes and surprises featuring new weapons, including the “Bearzooka” and the powerful “Unicorn Horn Crossbow.” For a sample of the game action: http://www.battlebears.com/game/.
“It’s Care Bears meets Black Hawk Down,” says writer/director Benjamin Vu, “Next month, we’ll release new versions with more slightly demented details on our characters and storyline.”
BATTLE BEARS™ is available for 99 cents for a limited time on the iTunes App Store. Also available is a free, shorter version of BATTLE BEARS that allows players to try out the game at no charge. For more information on BATTLE BEARS, visit www.battlebears.com or email Steven Greene atsgreene@sperlingreene.com or (917) 656-1837.
ABOUT SKYVU PICTURES, INC. SkyVu Pictures is an innovative new animation company started by Benjamin Vu, a CORALINE animator and CalArts graduate. Vu is the writer and director for the upcoming film, BATTLE BEARS, the first full-length feature based on an iPhone App. With studios in the U.S., Singapore and Vietnam, SkyVu’s unique multi-national production system allows it to rapidly produce cutting-edge 3D animation for feature films and mobile games. Learn more about SkyVu Pictures atwww.SkyVu.net.
This weeks Zero punctuation focuses on two games, The Beatles Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5. by the end of it, you kinda get the impression that he's not so enthusiastic about music games, unless they're for his favourite band.
Cryptic have revealed a new Federation Starship Class in their upcoming MMO Star Trek Online. The Discovery Class is an evolution of the Intrepid Class of which U.S.S Voyager is the most well known vessel. the vessel is designed for "long exploration missions"1, "fleet support or solo patrol vessel"2.
Like the Intrepid class, The Discovery Class features Variable-Geometry Pylons which are designed to improve engine efficiency. a new addition are the class's Warp Foils. these are designed to improve stability during high Warp or whilst the ship is using Transwarp Conduits. these Foils are being studied as to whether they will be added to other classes in the future.
The Class is not the most powerful in the fleet, but it makes up for this by having "...sensor arrays are state-of-the-art and can identify weaknesses in enemy ships, locate and track vessels or even detect some cloaked ships."3 it also have other improvements like an improved Tractor Beam and Deflector Array.
The vessels are equipped with Holoemitters throughout the ship, and feature the Astrometrics that the original Intrepid class U.S.S Voyager created.
Sega has released a new trailer for their upcoming Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 racing game, Sonic And Sega All-Super Stars Racing. the trailer shows many of the courses in the game as well as many of the characters and their vehicles. the trailer shows that there will be various weapons and possibly power ups and much of the trailer is from in game action.
Sony Online Entertainment have released new screenshots for their PSN game SwitchBall. the screenshots show some of the levels in the game, what appear to be power ups, and some of the games multiplayer aspects.
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