Kotaku Australia » barbie http://www.kotaku.com.au the Gamer's Guide | Computer and video game news and reviews Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:00:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Halo Wars Features Royal Dancing, Party Games http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/12/halo_wars_features_royal_dancing_party_games-2/ http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/12/halo_wars_features_royal_dancing_party_games-2/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:30:00 +0000 Luke Plunkett http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/12/halo_wars_features_royal_dancing_party_games-2.html

Halo Wars is an easy sell. It’s Halo, it’s real-time strategy, it’s on the Xbox 360. Don’t tell Amazon that, though. They’ve got their own idea of what the game’s like.


This Amazon product pages list a game called Parent C. It’s got the Halo Wars box art and the description of…something else. Check the game’s feature set:

* 1-2 Player
* 28 fun-filled, adventurous mini-games.
* Collect treasures from the island with Rosella¿ and her animal family.
* Impress the Royal Court with your dance moves.

Locations you and your UNSC troops will visit include the Royal Ship, Harbor Village, Apollonian Castle and the Greenhouse. Unit customisation allows you to “design your own wardrobe of clothes fit for a princess”. And the game has an eye on the future by forgoing a disc-based release in favour of a full digital download.

Parent C will sell for $29.99 when it’s released….in your dreams.

Parent C [Amazon]

]]> http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/12/halo_wars_features_royal_dancing_party_games-2/feed/ 0 Fascinating Yet Horrifying: The Barbie & Bratz MMOs http://www.kotaku.com.au/2007/08/fascinating_yet_horrifying_the/ http://www.kotaku.com.au/2007/08/fascinating_yet_horrifying_the/#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:30:54 +0000 Maggie Greene http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2007/08/fascinating_yet_horrifying_the.html Barbie_Girls_MP3_player.jpg Barbie, everyone’s favourite anatomically impossible plasticine play thing now has her own MMO: BarbieGirls. Following in the footsteps of things like Club Penguin, just a lot pinker and more irritating, it’s a brilliant marketing strategy and already boasts 4 million users. And they haven’t even gone out of beta yet. And continue to sign up new users at the rate of 45,000 a day. Wow. Not to be left behind, Bratz – the trashier, more badly made up version of Barbie – is also opening their own Be-Bratz MMO.
As nauseating as the whole bubblegum-fashion explosion for adolescent girls can be to us “mature” adults, you can’t fault Barbie for keeping up with the times. These virtual worlds for kids – the things I’ve been looking at on Worlds in Motion like Habbo, Puzzle Pirates, Nicktropolis and Toontown – are absolutely huge, able to generate way more hits and user activity than even the most popular MMO targeted at our set. This is big biz to corporations and advertisers right now, but even if it weren’t, I guess it’s sorta cool to see the evolution of the way children play with dolls keeping pace with technology.

In order to get access to the full version, players have to purchase (or get their parents to purchase for them) the $US59.99 Barbie Girls MP3 player that functions as a USB key. The Bratz game requires the same sort of scheme, just at a cheaper price point (you get a doll and some stuff that Sexy Videogameland describes as “some pink computer peripherals (a mouse and pad) that look like Japanese sex toys”) of $US29.99. I’m fascinated, yet horrified. Yet fascinated. I neither knew about this stuff, nor realised it was so damn popular. BarbieGirls will be going to full release on 13 August.

Do You Guys KNOW About This Stuff? [Sexy Videogameland]

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