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Biodroid Entertainment is proud to announce that its first Nintendo DS game, an animal shelter simulator, has been published throughout Europe by Deep Silver.Initially only available in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain, the game Let’s Play Pet Hospitals will be launched in many other European countries. UK is next and scheduled for 2009 1Q. The PC version has also been released by Deep Silver.

Find out more about this title in here or :

http://www.deepsilver.com/nc/en/main/games/game-view/browse/2/detail/lets-play-pet-hospitals.html

Find out more about the Let’s Play series in:

http://letsplay.deepsilver.com/en

Biodroid Entertainment is now a registered publisher for Nintendo platforms. With the addition of Miffy to our product pipeline, we will publish a game on Nintendo WiiWare for the first time.

If you would like to keep updated with our activities and products or get in touch with us, you can now refer to many new web iterations of Biodroid. First, the new website of Biodroid Productions focused in communicating with the community of game developers and gamers. Here you can find listings of ongoing productions (we mean: games), job openings, etc.

You can also watch video samples of our work at our YouTube channel, join our group in Facebook or log into our IGN blog.

Brandfiction and Biodroid are proud to present “Popota StarGame”, a mobile advergame for the Portuguese market, totally developed in Portugal, where the main character is Popota, Modelo’s friendly and highly popular mascot.

Find out more about this launch here (Portuguese).

An exhibition on the “making of” the videogame Zblucops, as well as art from authors Bill and Gobi, is present at FIBDA-Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada da Amadora (Portugal) from the 24th of October to the 9th of November. The videogame, in development for the Wii console by Biodroid Productions, is schedule to hit the market early next year. At Amadora a first prototype is being screened and various aspects of the production process are shown.

On Saturday, 1st of November, Bill will be at the festival to sign his works and a demonstration on the process of how a 2D comic character becomes a 3D videogame character will be made by Biodroid’s Tiago Baginha, on the exhibition site, from 15:00 to 17:00.

For the first time at the gigantic book fair, Biodroid visited Frankfurt in our usual scouting mode. We also conducted a round of meetings with our licensors, moving ahead with the concepts and approvals for the games in production.

António Saraiva: “The comics and manga section of the fair was, naturally, our first point of interest. But it has to be said that if you love books, the Frankfurt Buchmesse feels like you’ve died and gone to Heaven.”

Diogo Horta e Costa, from Biodroid, and Julia Lim, from Sieundesign, came together in MIPCOM, Cannes, to sign an agreement on the property “Banana Shake”.

The brand, an original animation series developed by Sieundesign in Korea, will be developed as a videogame by Biodroid for all online console platforms. Also planned is a Nintendo DS game, all to hit the market by the end of 2009.

Find more about this here.

Once again Biodroid headed for Cannes, this time for MIPCOM, one of the most relevant film and television fairs. In the agenda was the signature of Banana Shakes‘ deal with Korea’s Sieundesign (read more on this here) and also a new round of discussions on some of the hotter animation series in the market. We also found out about plans to turn some of our licensed properties into television content.

António Saraiva: “Although there weren’t a lot of new brands to spot, it was fun and useful to see that the selection we made in March (in MIPTV) had developed, in just a few months, to more enticing properties”.

Biodroid Entertainment and Mercis bv have struck a deal for a Miffy videogame aimed at the Wii and Xbox online platforms. The game titled “Miffy’s World” is a world simulation based on the hugely popular children’s character created by Dick Bruna fifty three years ago and is scheduled for completion in June 2009.   Find more about this here.

MEDIACI’s Open Innovation Lab (OiL 1.07) gathered once again, now under the auspices of the Waag Society, in Amsterdam. This was a reduced assembly with the pragmatic goal of defining a roadmap of initiatives to implement the conclusions of the first OiL in Lisbon: “Defining a dynamic model to map the European media industry (past, present, future) in a way that we can feed research/foresight, education/training and business development”.