Gaming
The best-selling Ultimate Board Game Collection, which has so far shifted over half a million copies in the US, is to be released in the UK early next year on Wii, PlayStation 2 and PSP.
Publisher Empire Interactive claims that parents concerned about violent games will find "the Ultimate Board Game Collection is full of good, clean family fun that everyone will enjoy".
Ian Higgins, CEO of Empire Interactive, said: “We’re delighted to bring this collection of classic board and table games to European households. Publishing on a range of formats gives us an opportunity to fulfill the sales potential and family-wide appeal of these timeless games, and the Wii console provides the perfect demographic for our first launch on this platform.”
The full list of games included in the set are:
Chess
Quatro
Checkers
Enigma
Backgammon
Reversi
Snakes & Ladders
Parcheesi
Dice
Dominoes
Go
Chinese Checkers
Word Cubes
Mahjong Solitaire
Anagrams
Concentration
3D Tic-Tac-Toe
Mancala
Jigsaws
Publisher Empire Interactive claims that parents concerned about violent games will find "the Ultimate Board Game Collection is full of good, clean family fun that everyone will enjoy".
Ian Higgins, CEO of Empire Interactive, said: “We’re delighted to bring this collection of classic board and table games to European households. Publishing on a range of formats gives us an opportunity to fulfill the sales potential and family-wide appeal of these timeless games, and the Wii console provides the perfect demographic for our first launch on this platform.”
The full list of games included in the set are:
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