September 2nd, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

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September 2nd, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

And so it begins. With both Pocket Paradise and Trouble in Paradise releasing in the states tomorrow and all across Europe on Friday, it’s no surprise to see the reviews start pouring in. Eurogamer’s review for Pocket Paradise has been unveiled already, in which they scored the game an 8 out of 10. Not too bad, eh? A portion of their review below…

What Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise loses in coming second, and not having a triple-core PowerPC chip to drive its graphics, it makes up with its new, much better stylus-based interface, and Rare’s impressive feat of retaining the vast majority of the original game’s best features, in roughly the same measures. It’s still a bit too complex to work as a kids’ game (for that you might be better with the 360 sequel’s co-op mode, where you can pick up a second pad and offer a helping hand), but for everybody else it comes highly recommended.

Full Review at Eurogamer

September 2nd, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

In celebration of tomorrow’s release of Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise exclusively for the Xbox 360, Microsoft and Rare have relaunched the official Viva Pinata website complete with leaderboards, playerstats, and much more. This is also where you will have access to all of the pictures you take in-game to publish to your own website, create and share Pinatavision cards and so forth. It’s a definite improvement over the previous site and will absolutely aid in gathering the Viva Pinata community together in broader, much more appealing manner. Incredible job on the website!

August 29th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

Earlier today I stopped by Gamestop and picked up the strategy guid for Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise. I have no intentions whatsoever on using it to complete the game, I just like looking through the guides after the game’s completion. I did open it up however to see if it included any Pinata Cards and sure enough, it does. Nine in fact. I’ll be sure and get pictures of them taken individually so when the game releases and if you have an Xbox 360 Vision Camera, you can simply scan the cards and presto!, the pinatas are in your Garden.

Don’t forget that Trouble in Paradise releases in the U.S. on Tuesday, September 2nd and in Europe on September 5th.

August 29th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

Trouble in Paradise will be resting on store shelvels–hopefully for not very long!!–this Wednesday, and already the review scores are starting to come in. First and foremost is the review score from Electronic Gaming Monthly Magazine that gave the game an ‘A’ and Game of the Month for September. Fingers crossed that the rest of the media will do the same. Be sure and stay tuned here for our review as well shortly after the game releases on September 2nd.