Crave Announces Poker for DS

Press Release

January 18, 2005, 9:21 am EST
Total comments: 8

The publisher's first DS title will go all in on the current poker phenomenon.

CRAVE ANNOUNCES FIRST NINTENDO DSÔ GAME

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POKER: DELUXE SERIES™ COMING SOON!

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - January 18, 2005 -Crave Entertainment, a leading

publisher of console videogames, today announced the upcoming release of

their first game for the Nintendo DSÔ - World Championship Poker: Deluxe

SeriesÔ, with an MSRP of $29.99. WCP is currently available for the

PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox® video game system from

Microsoft and Game Boy® Advance.

The game of Poker has emerged as a national phenomenon with tournament

action on television almost every night of the week. Crave's World

Championship Poker: Deluxe SeriesÔ recreates the style of play familiar to

fans of televised poker tournaments and puts players in the fast and

freewheeling world of high-stakes poker on their own next generation console

and handheld system.

For the Nintendo DSÔ World Championship Poker features:

· Over 12 different poker games, including Texas Hold'em, Five Card Draw

Baseball and Hi-Lo.

· Multiplayer for up to six players that will allow you to taunt you

opponents

· Quick Play Mode - a quick tournament style card game where the object is

to be the last player with chips

· Four themed casino environments, complete with blackjack and video poker.

· A career mode including Casino Lane, Tournament Tables, a Loan Shark, and

a Gift Shop.

Now available for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox

video game system from Microsoft and Game Boy® Advance, World Championship

PokerÔ will be available in April 5th, 2005 for the Nintendo DSÔ with an

MSRP of $29.99.

Talkback

KnoxxvilleJanuary 18, 2005

This crap shouldn't be more than 19 bucks.

vuduJanuary 18, 2005

It might be almost worthwhile if it supports one cart multiplayer. However, no mention of this feature it listed in the press release.

Hostile CreationJanuary 18, 2005

I'll stick with the Poker minigame in Mario. That's some relaxing stuff, actually.

thepogaJanuary 18, 2005

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Originally posted by: kingvudu
It might be almost worthwhile if it supports one cart multiplayer. However, no mention of this feature it listed in the press release.

yeah, that's the only thing that would make it worthwhile. Also if they included wi-fi. I wanna play with a friend not near me. If they bumped down the price to 25 it might be a better deal too.

Infernal MonkeyJanuary 18, 2005

I predict this game will be bigger than Ping Pals. You heard it here first, folks.

RennyJanuary 19, 2005

I wonder if all games will be locked at $30 for awhile. They're still using 16MB MASK ROM at this point, so licensing fees are probably closer to the GBA's than publishers would like them to be. Where's that cheap, quickly manufactured 128MB media, Nintendo?

UncleBobRichard Cook, Guest ContributorJanuary 19, 2005

>Crave Entertainment, a leading publisher of console videogames,

Who?

Seriously, there's been like four games or so from this company? I'm amused by how they put this on every press release...

Of course, I wouldn't be so hard on Crave if they hadn't completly ignored the GCN when they originally released their Intellivision collection awhile ago... Yeah, they've released it since, but I'm still ticked they ignored me in the first place... (I still need to pick this one up sometime...)