Xbox Live Arcade has him, the WiiWare service has him, and come this Winter the PlayStation Network will finally have a special flavor of Hudson's legendary Bomberman franchise all of their own. Called Bomberman Ultra, the title will include 8-person online multiplayer across 14 different arenas, 4-person local multiplayer, and more than 50 different character costumes to swap around and customise to create your own unique bomberguy.

Really there isn't much to explain here. It's Bomberman, it's online multiplayer, and it's on its way to the PSN this Winter. Roll screenshots!

Bomberman Ultra Gallery

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Discounted consoles are just part 1 of Microsoft's push to get more Japanese gamers buying into the Xbox 360 dream. Part 2 is this Bomberman Live bundle, which we must say, is quite the bargain. For ￥6090 (USD$56), Japanese gamers get a copy of Bomberman Live, 12 months Xbox Live subscription, a 360 headset and 200 Microsoft points. Yes, a whopping 200, proving that for all their other enticements, what may finally get Japanese gamers on board are a couple of gamerpics.

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No platforming, no Western "re-imaginings", none of that mess. This is just Bomberman. Walkin' on a grid, droppi'n bombs, blowin' shit up. Like he does best. These screens are from the as-yet-untitled Bomberman for the Wii, which since we last saw it has been announced as appearing on both WiiWare and as a retail version (which will have some SP missions the downloadable version will not). Cannot. Wait.

And it's about bloody time. Hudson have finally gotten around to announcing a Bomberman game for the Wii. For the console's WiiWare service, to be precise. And it's not some mini-game thing, either. It's a proper Bomberman game. It'll support up to eight players in the one game, and - according to Famitsu - should be out in Japan sometime in June. Can't wait.
Bomberman JAP Termin / Neue Bilder [gamefront]

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Two iPod games in one day? Not bad work. Surely enough to keep the kinds of people who are happy playing iPod games happy. But no, today we were meant to get three new iPod games, with the third being Hudson's Bomberman. The game turned up on the iTune store, was available for $US 5, but then promptly disappeared, and at time of writing hasn't come back. Come on, Bomberman. If you come back, we won't say anything awful about the iPod's control layout for at least one whole day.
[thanks Mascott!]

It may not be planning a 2008 follow up to the Bonk franchise, but Hudson Entertainment CEO John Greiner says in a recent interview that the company is definitely planning on creating games for Apple's iPhone. Greiner tells Nintendo Players that, despite the platform being "terrible" and iTunes "not an optimal games distribution environment" the exec sounds pretty excited about the opportunities to bring Bomberman to the iPhone. Must be the iPhone's ability to... well, I really don't know. The thing can barely tell when I'm trying to pick one of my contacts.

He's equally excited about the Wii Ware platform, but says that the company doesn't currently have plans to publish Hudson games on the Virtual Console that were released on the Nintendo 64 or Super Nintendo. You can read more about the publisher's plans at the full interview.

EXCLUSIVE: Hudson CEO John Greiner [Nintendo Players]

When Hudson isn't busy laying off chunks of their workforce, they spend their time readying new Bomberman games for the masses. Games like Bomberman Land Wii, which is a collection of mini-games that take advantage of the system's unique control scheme. It's about time we got a collection of mini-games on the Wii, isn't it? *sighs* Bomberman really needs to stick to mazes and bombs. The most successful Bomberman games of the past few years? Bomberman Live on Xbox Live Arcade and Bomberman DS. Mazes and bombs people. Mazes and bombs.

Hot off the success of Bomberman Live on Xbox Live Arcade, Hudson is bringing the Bomberman Land triple threat in January with Bomberman Land for the Wii and PSP and Bomberman Land Touch! 2 for the Nintendo DS. Solve puzzles and quests in single-player mode, play 40-50 mini-games, or make some friends blow up real good in the Battle Pack Mode, which promises classic Bomberman action. The DS and PSP versions will both support single cartridge play, while the Wii version obviously won't. In fact the Wii version only supports 1-4 players locally, so until they get some online action going I'll stick to the 360 for my Bomberman fix.

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Hudson is set to release the second of it's Bomb-Up expansion packs for the Xbox Live Arcade's Bomberman live, and in addition to ten new characters, two new levels, new leaderboards, and a new game mode called Bomb Shelters, the expansion features a cameo by Destructoid's mascot, Mr. Destructoid.

"Not only is it an honour to have Destructoid represented in Bomberman Live, but it may also be the first time an online community has been immortalised in a popular gaming franchise," said Niero Gonzalez, Creator of Destructoid.com. "We're grateful that Hudson has extended our brand in this unique way, and invite all gamers to wreak havoc as the infamous Mr. Destructoid."

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