<![CDATA[Kotaku: Cooking Mama]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Cooking Mama]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/cooking mama http://kotaku.com/tag/cooking mama <![CDATA[How Many Interns Does it Take to Cover a Press Event?]]> Last week, ace Kotaku Interns Jen Schiller and Joshua Rivera underwent a vital video game journalism rite of passage: their first publisher Press Event. At the suggestion of their mentor and spiritual guide Stephen Totilo, the two met up afterward via the magic of the internet to discuss their thoughts on the proceedings. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827369&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Street Fighter vs Cooking Mama]]> In the interest of spoilers, you'll have to click through for the punchline. Welcome back, Waffle House Ninja. As seen on 1UP, via 4CR. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5623314&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama In Trouble As Martha Stewart Enters The Video Game Business]]> Is there room for two cooking, crafting and gardening experts at Majesco? The U.S. publisher of the Cooking Mama series has signed a deal to produce video games based on America's favorite ex-convict, Martha Stewart. I smell a cat fight. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5520750&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Gaga May Just Be A Matter Of Time]]> When two prolific popular properties combine (again)—not that you should eat anything Lady Gaga cooks—as seen on deviantArt via Gamefreaks. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5499362&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama Inevitably Turns To Crafting]]> A year after we discovered a trademark registration for it, Majesco is finally ready to make Crafting Mama official. The woman with the most free time in the world returns this fall with a whole new bag of domestic tricks. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5491326&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Majesco Faces NASDAQ Delisting — Again]]> Majesco's share price has again wandered south of Wall Street's Mendoza line, prompting NASDAQ to tell the maker of Cooking Mama to get it back north of $1 or face delisting from the exchange. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5486919&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama, Cooking Zelda, Cooking Samus...]]> This is the cover to the latest issue of French mag IG. It features Cooking Mama. And Cooking Faith. Cooking Peach. Cooking Chun-Li (they even got the thighs right!). And, best of all, Cooking Mai. With Cooking Mai boobs. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5310550&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[These Watched Cooking Mama 3 Screens Will Never Boil]]> Meet Cooking Mama 3. Looks largely the same as Cooking Mama 2. And Cooking Mama. Not that that's a problem! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5292335&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama Dishes Dirt On Science Papa]]> Yesterday we pinged Majesco for a comment on Activision's newly announced Science Papa title for the Wii and DS, only to have Cooking Mama herself reveal her sordid past with the science geek. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5255905&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama Sells Four Million...Domestically]]> Majesco proudly announces that the mini-game powered Cooking Mama series has sold more than 4 million units domestically. How else would a cooking franchise sell? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5249025&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mommy Dearest: The Best and Worst Mothers in Video Games]]> Mothers have it tough in video games – they get killed off, turned evil, or their children leave the nest to save the world. And their kids probably don't call home often enough. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5238770&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ohio Cops Haul In Recidivist Guitar Villain]]> Robert Snively of Port Clinton, Ohio, should be having a moment of clarity right now, because the dude is headed for town court over freaking Guitar Hero. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5179475&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Osaka Schools Passing Out DSs]]> Reports say that about 10 middle and elementary schools in Osaka will start handing out Nintendo DS consoles to students next January. Nintendo's plan to control the world: 80% complete. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5169142&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PETA Beats a Dead Horse, Asks for Veggie Cooking Mama]]> We’ve been following the PETA Cooking Mama back and forth with bated breath. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5094386&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What's Taito Bringing To TGS?]]> We know what Square Enix is bringing to this year's Tokyo Game Show. The Japanese publisher is armed with some big guns — Final Fantasy XIII, Dragon Quest IX and Star Ocean: The Last Hope — one of which will actually be playable. But what about its little subsidiary, Taito? It makes games too! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5056671&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[First Cooking Mama, Now Gardening Mama]]> Cooking Mama is a hit. Not just the gamer, either; Mama herself is a bonafide gaming starlet. So it's with little surprise that we hear Majesco are taking the short-tempered lass out of the kitchen and throwing her in the garden for another Mama series, with Gardening Mama due for release on the DS at the end of the year (in Japan, at any rate). Mama's fiery temper was a perfect fit for the kitchen in these Gordon Ramsey-heavy times, but gardening's always been a more relaxing pursuit. Wonder how she's going to adjust. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5054504&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Majesco *Might* Get Kicked Off The Stock Market]]> Cooking Mama sure can cook. Might want to get her to cook your books, Majesco, as the company today received a formal warning notice from the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. The exchange has rules, and one of those rules is that shares in a company can't trade at under $1.00 for 30 days in a row. Majesco's have been trading at under $1.00 for 30 days now, so they've got this warning, along with a condition that if they can't get it back over $1.00 by February 2009, they might get themselves delisted from the stock exchange. A fate which is probably a lot more awful than it sounds. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5043336&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Another Year, Another Cooking Mama]]> A mantra that should cause the clucking of tongues and the rolling of eyes! But no. This isn't some skateboarding series. It's no annually-updated football franchise. It's Cooking Mama! So it's with delight that we learn Majesco will be releasing a new Cooking Mama title this year, and an all-new one to boot. Called Cooking Mama World Kitchen, it's for the Wii, and aside from an entirely appropriate (and welcome) graphical upgrade, we're promised new minigame opportunities ("if you flip a burger too high, you can control Mama as she rushes in to save the day by catching it in her apron") and better motion control implementation. It should be out this holidays. Presser and NSFW screen after the jump. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5020922&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama: 1.6 Millions and Millions Served]]> Majesco has done pretty well in North America with the Cooking Mama franchise. Between their three titles on the market (2 for the DS, 1 for Wii), they've sold 1.6 million copies here. But the larger stats freaks among you will note that the original Cooking Mama DS sold over a million copies—or roughly 2/3 of the total sales from 3 games. So it doesn't feel like much of a stretch saying that the series' popularity may have peaked. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=350724&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama Huge Success For Taito]]> Just how important is the quirky little DS and Wii game Cooking Mama to Japanese developer Taito? Speaking to Gamasutra, Taito's U.S. representative Keiji Fujita revealed that only one game in the company's stable has managed to surpass the success of the little cooking sim that could, that game being the Japanese-only title Densha De Go (Let's Go By Train). In an interview posted on the website today, Fujita discusses the wild success of the franchise, which has now sold over 2 million copies around the world, as well as the future of Mama and her friends - including the possibility of an arcade version of the game somewhere down the line.
"Taito has the skill and the quality of arcade machines, so they could develop an arcade version of Cooking Mama. A virtual knife and cooking board or something..."
Check out the full interview below for more on Cooking Mama, Exit for the DS, and the 30th anniversary of Taito's classic, Space Invaders. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=343888&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1,000,000 Europeans Do It Even Better Than Mama]]> 505 Games has proudly announced that everyone's favorite bundle of cooking mini-games has reached the 1 million mark in sales across Europe since it's release in September of 2006. If you had told me two years ago that a video game that centered around a besting a tiny Japanese woman with starz in her eyes (why'd they wanna go and put those there?) at cooking while she praises your work in horribly broken English would sell a million copies, I would probably be brining that up right now and telling you how right you were.
"These fantastic results vindicate the hard work and dedication from everyone at 505 that has gone into making this our most successful franchise to date," commented Ian Howe, 505 Games' Managing Director. "We've set ourselves a lofty target, but now we're all keen to see how quickly we can get Cooking Mama 2 to one million!"
Of course the main credit needs to go to Japanese developer Office Create, but success is success. Way to go marketing team! Someone's getting a pizza party! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=331074&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Taito's TGS Looks Something Like This]]> The TGS anticipation continues! Taito has released its list of games appearing at TGS. And amazingly (or not, depending on how you look at it) all titles are DS games. They include: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=297347&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Korean Cooking Mama Gets The Mitts Out]]> Best. Item. Ever. Over in Korea, Cooking Mama comes with oven mitts. Yes, oven mitts! Because right after playing Cooking Mama, you just might feel like cooking. Hell, I already have Cooking Mama and can't read Korean, but I would so pick them up for those mitts alone. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=297345&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Cooking Mama Hookers]]> Forget dirty movies. You know you've made it, when you get a prostitution business named after your game. And with Cooking Mama, developer Office Create has made it. Head over to Osaka's tricks-for-cash "Cooking Mama." Adult mini-games run ¥10,000 an hour (US $84), but probably are short. Much shorter. It specializes in not just in older motherly-types, but older motherly-types wearing nothing but aprons. Apparently, there is an audience for this! Oddly, there is a "Cooking Mama Corporation" behind this hooker outfit. It was established in 2006, which is the same year Cooking Mama hit the DS. Coincidence? Ha! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=285081&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mama is Cooking]]> Pachter's at it again, this time he's predicting a sunny $15 million in forecasted sales for Majesco's Cooking Mama series in their second quarter earnings. The weather should be so bright for a company that was struggling to stay in the stock market back in April. According to Pachter: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=268762&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Elder Bleszinski Doesn't Welcome Wii Dominance]]> Look familiar? That's Tyler Bleszinski (in green), older brother of Gears of War designer CliffyB. Known primarily as a sports blogger, TylerB is also a big gamer. Over at Newsweek's Level Up, he's written an editorial on why he's on edge about the current Wii popularity. From the piece: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=267016&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama Lunchbox]]> If there's one thing Cooking Mama has taught me, it's that I can't cook. But then again, I probably should have made an effort to go out and get this lunchbox instead of buying a video game to teach me how. This little yellow box set was designed by illustrator Chinatsu Higashi for a special promotion at Harbor City in Hong Kong. During the week of Mother's Day, women were invited to attend healthy cooking classes as well as redeem the lunchbox after making purchases at the shopping center the festivities were taking place in. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=262486&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Raise Babies On Your Cell Phone]]> Raising children is easy. If I can do it — Better yet, if Crecente can do it, anyone can. Even Tiffany! Come On Baby, which is hitting UK cell phones soon-ish, is Cooking Mama, but with children and no knifes. The game stars buxom Tiffany, who has just started up her own nursery. Players must change diapers, feed babies and boiling milk to turn her nursery into a "five star baby motel." The game's publisher Ozura proclaims it is: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=249769&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The NYC Cooking Mama Cook Off]]> The Nintendo World Store in New York's Rockefeller Plaza will be host to Majesco's first ever Cooking Mama: Cook Off Challenge. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=247399&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Frankenreview, Cooking Mama: Cook Off]]> Instead of the usual score a touchdown/bang the cheerleader or behead the bad guy/bang the cheerleader videogame, the original Cooking Mama was a quirky DS title that made us feel good about our culinary expertise, even if in real life that consisted of the ability to make popcorn via microwave. So Majesco's new sequel, Cooking Mama: Cook Off, should make our mom's all the more proud. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=246152&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama Cook Off Kick Off]]> Cash rich Wii owners probably are already in possession of a copy or two of Majesco's recently released Cooking Mama: Cook Off (it ships today), but those of you looking to score a free disc should keep reading. The publisher is holding a launch event for the game at the Nintendo World Store on March 31 to promote the game. That means free food, free games for contest winners and (wait for it) a chance to win a limited edition Cooking Mama branded apron! Wow! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=245765&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cooking Mama Not Ready To Cook In Europe]]> Europeans, bad news! Taito has pushed back Cooking Mama: Cook Off has been pushed back. The original release date was March 29th, and the new one is May 10th. Not sure what the reason is. However, we are sure that's not really a "push back," but a shove. Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=236001&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Kotaku Magu: Cooking Mama, Space Invader In Wii Train Game]]>
Title says it all. Japanese game maker Taito is giving Mama from Cooking Mama and an alien from Space Invaders make cameo appearances in Densha de Go! for the Wii. Sure hope that a bullet train doesn't run over Mama! Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=228663&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Screens: Cooking Mama Wii]]> Delicious Cooking Mama screens for the Wii ahoy. Hit the link to peruse and oggle. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=227809&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Clips: Cooking Mama Wii]]> Mike's been trying to find someone to let him play the Wii version of Cooking Mama, and I'm sure he will prevail, but until then, here's a clip of the game in action. Brian Crecente More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=227680&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[From Ice Mario To Ice Salmon, Lost Planet Contest Entries]]> Wow. That's Nikolai's super great wonderful fantastic Mario snowman. Nikolai lives in Bulgaria. Bulgaria has snow. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=225586&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Half-Baked Cooking Mama Clone]]>
Cooking Mama was a great game. So good that another company has decided to make a knock-off, just to hold you over until Cooking Mama: Cook Out hits the Wii. Or something like that. Called Nahomi Edamoto's Happy Kitchen: You Pick the Hidden Taste, the game features the popular TV chef and is getting mediocre reviews in Japan. Though, the titles does differ in that there are mini-games that include cooking quests, and players can design their own kitchen. In total, there are 50 plus meals in Nahomi Edamoto's Happy Kitchen, but only one Cooking Mama. Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=212556&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Games of the Week!]]> Wow, we've got a lot of releases this week. Big ones, too. I'm going to try to keep descriptions to five words or less to get this thing done right quick! Here's what's new and notable this week. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=199609&view=rss&microfeed=true