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Burger Island to Wii and DS

• Scribbled on July 11th, 2008 by casualgamerchick
• Filed in Casual Gaming, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Press Release, Release Date(s)

eGames Inc announced an agreement with Destineer publishing to bring Burger Island to the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS. Burger Island is a time management game and the second game from eGames to make it to the Nintendo DS. It is the first game they have developed for the Nintendo Wii.

“By distributing our own proprietary titles across multiple gaming platforms including the PC, Wii, and DS, we continue to grow our capabilities and transform eGames into a leading casual game developer and publisher,” said eGames Vice President of Sales and Marketing Rich Siporin. “The DS and Wii are two dominant and growing platforms and we intend to take advantage of these opportunities now and in the future. We are glad to have the opportunity to partner with Destineer, which supports our goal of creating internal properties and franchising them across platforms that serve today’s growing mass consumer market.”

Burger Island has players helping, Patty Melton, make her newly acquired Island Burger shop a success. She has to wait on customers, get their orders correct and make enough money to be able to open the shop the next day. Along the way, players have the opportunity to buy more recipes. More recipes bring in more customers.

Burger Island is a lot of fun to play and will make a great game on the Nintendo DS. The DS has the touch screen that makes playing time management games easy and fun. The Nintendo Wii version should be interesting. I have never played a time management game on the Wii, but as long as the controls are intuitive it should work.

The DS version will be released this fall and the Wii version will follow in the Winter.

(Thanks, CGC. Click “Read more…” for the full press release.)

Press Release Follows:

LANGHORNE, Pa., July 7, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Casual games developer and publisher eGames, Inc. (Pink Sheets:EGAM), announced today the finalization of an agreement with Destineer to publish the hit burger-flipping time management game Burger Island(r) for Wii(tm) and Nintendo DS(tm). Burger Island follows Puzzle City(tm) as eGames’ second Nintendo DS title for which eGames has signed a publishing deal, and will be eGames’ first title developed for the Wii platform.

“By distributing our own proprietary titles across multiple gaming platforms including the PC, Wii, and DS, we continue to grow our capabilities and transform eGames into a leading casual game developer and publisher,” said eGames Vice President of Sales and Marketing Rich Siporin. “The DS and Wii are two dominant and growing platforms and we intend to take advantage of these opportunities now and in the future. We are glad to have the opportunity to partner with Destineer, which supports our goal of creating internal properties and franchising them across platforms that serve today’s growing mass consumer market.”

“Bringing the top-selling casual games to the Wii and DS is part of Destineer’s continuing business strategy,” said Paul Rinde, CEO of Destineer. “We are thrilled to be partnering with eGames to bring the fast-paced, addictive gameplay of Burger Island to a brand-new audience.”

Burger Island, one of the top casual time management games of 2007, follows the frantic culinary adventures of Patty Melton as she assumes control of a tropical island-based Beach Burger restaurant, grilling burgers, cooking fries, and blending special milkshakes for hungry customers with the help of quick-tempered waiter, Pierre, and the mysterious recipe-selling Tiki Guy.

eGames and Destineer plan to launch the DS version of Burger Island this fall, with the Wii version expected to arrive in late winter. The PC version of Burger Island is available now for download online at www.egames.com and other major casual game portals.