Posted by Erin Zimmer, July 2, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Mama will no longer cut her lemons and slice her steak on a flat plate. She's getting 3D-ified, not to mention a cuter canine sous chef.
According to WiiFanBoy, Cooking Mama: World Tour, the updated version of Cooking Mama: Cook Off, will be released this holiday season with new recipes, a Wii remote feature with cooking and chopping simulations and, most exciting of all, mistake-induced "minigames." That's right: Ma's rewarding you for kitchen faux pas. Flip a burger too high, for example, and she'll rush over to save the patty in her apron pouch. More in this Majesco Entertainment press release.
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Posted by Raphael, July 1, 2008 at 5:15 PM
WiiWare games get released Monday mornings, and every Monday, like a good boy, I check to see if Major League Eating: The Game is going to be available to download. And every week, I'm disappointed. Rumor had it that the game was going to be released in time for the Annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4th, but this week only Magnetica Twist was released. Here's hoping that next week, on July 7th, we'll be able to get our virtual gluttony on.
Previously: Serious Eats' coverage of Major League Eating: The Game
Posted by Gordon Mark, June 9, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Over the last few days, I've had the chance to play the Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen video game.
In the game, you're put in charge of Hell's Kitchen restaurant. You progress through five weeks as you rank up from dishwasher to senior chef. You are both cooking in the kitchen and serving people in the dining area. This leads to a hectic experience, as cooking gets more complicated and more and more people eat at the restaurant.
You Are Doing Everything
Unlike a real restaurant, there's no division of labor in the Hell's Kitchen game. You'll do every job in the place.
In the dining area, you seat people, take their orders, serve orders, and bus the tables after the diners are finished.
With the cooking segment of the game, you have a set of ingredients that must be prepared one at a time. After you get the order, you put the ingredients into the pots or pans as per the requirements shown in the icons above them. Each pot or pan also has a different cook time, which you'll have to keep track of. After they're done cooking, you plate the food to be sent out.
After the jump, the rest of the review, plus gameplay video.
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Posted by Robyn Lee, June 5, 2008 at 12:30 PM
For all you people who are burdened by the convenience of dishwashers, your luck has finally come. Relive the fun and adventure of washing dishes by hand by playing Dishwasher Champion for the Wii game console! Travel to exotic, far off places while rubbing your plates to a beautiful, spotless shine. Just don't break any dishes, or else the world will explode. Watch the parody commercial, after the jump.
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Posted by Raphael, June 1, 2008 at 5:00 PM
The Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland has adapted Fujitsu's HOAP-3 robot into the Chief Cook Robot. Capable of learning recipes and techniques, a Nintendo Wii remote is used to guide the teaching scenario and the answer the robot's questions. Check out the video, where the robot learns how to whip eggs, grate cheese, and slice ham for the omelet.
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Posted by Raphael, May 20, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Photographs by Gordon Mark
Serious Eats intern Gordon Mark went to the Nintendo World Store at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan today for the promotional release of Major League Eating: The Game, coming soon for the Nintendo Wii, a game which we've reported
extensively on. Gordon was also there to watch Tim "Eater X" Janus and "Crazy Legs" Conti challenge each other in eating real and virtual watermelon. To the tune of The Who's "Baba O'Riley" (aka "Teenage Wasteland"), Crazy Legs won the six-minute meat-space competition 15 wedges to 15 wedges and one bite. Later, Eater X won the virtual competition because the Crazy Legs character threw up inside the game, an automatic disqualification.
More pictures after the jump.
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Posted by Internet Rockstar, April 18, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Editor's note: In early March we first told you about the release of Major League Eating, the videogame. Last week, we asked our friend Ben Brown, the internet rockstar, if he'd attend the press event for us in San Francisco to check out the game. —Adam K.
Tim Janus is a world champion competitive eater. His professional name is "Eater X," and he paints his face like a super hero when he appears at public "gurgitation events." You may also know him as the man who spearheaded the "alternative beverage movement" within the competitive eating community (using lemonade instead of water as a hot dog chaser). And now, thanks to a new videogame coming out in May for the Nintendo Wii, Janus has achieved what millions of slightly overweight manboys have dreamt about since their tweens: He's become a videogame character.
Major League Eating is the official videogame of the Major League Eating organization, which makes up and enforces the rules for competitive-eating events and oversees them. The Wii game, which will be available on the new WiiWare game download system soon, involves players—surprise, surprise—eating pizza, hot dogs, and a variety of other food as fast as they can.
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Posted by Raphael, April 8, 2008 at 10:15 AM
The trailer for the upcoming release of 'Major League Eating: The Game' looks like it might have potential, especially considering online play and leaderboards. The newly released website for the game does indeed confirm our suspicions that you can play as your favorite competitive eater, including Joey Chestnut or Takeru Kobayashi. The virtual gluttony is set as an online purchase through Nintendo's upcoming WiiWare service on May 12th. Check out the video after the jump.
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Posted by Raphael, March 3, 2008 at 6:00 AM
First there was Cooking Mama for the Wii, where players can prepare and cook a variety of international dishes. It always left me a little unfulfilled, since you never actually got to virtually eat anything you virtually cooked. But the world of virtual (professional) eating is near.
Soon you'll be able to channel your inner Joey Chestnut or Takeru Kobayashi by playing Major League Eating: The Game for the Nintendo Wii. Mastiff, the game's publisher, has announced that it will be released on the Wii on May 12 in North America as a downloadable WiiWare title, for one or two players, with the killer feature of online play and leaderboards.
The game will make "extensive" use of the Wii Remote to "simulate a variety of eating techniques including the cram, toss, and 'typewriter.' Burp-offs and Hot Potato challenges during the contests keep the competition intense and eaters on their toes."
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