Atari and Jamie Oliver love to cook

By Robert Purchese Published 25 July, 2008

DS recipes in time for Christmas.

Atari has signed Jamie "pukka pukka gorgeous lisp" Oliver to star in a DS cooking game this October.

Due out this Christmas, probably alongside the chef's Sainsbury's adverts, "What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver" will walk you through piles of his sumptuous feasts.

The recipes, numbering about 100, are all illustrated by the chap who takes pictures for the Jamie Oliver books, and cooking advice stretches as far as what to buy in the supermarket. There's room for 100 of your own creations that you can share with friends or family using Wi-Fi, too.

Cooking is done in a 3D kitchen using the DS stylus to chop and stir and all the rest, and once you get good enough you can challenge your friends in an online cook-off.

"I really want to get as many people as I can cooking simple, tasty food, so I'm really excited about bringing a book's worth of my recipes to a game for the first time," said Jamie Oliver, maybe at home, relaxed, or out in the garden picking tomatoes.

"You can cook my recipes for real at home or in the game's 3D kitchens, but what's brilliant is that you can come up with your own recipes then share them with your mates and family over Wi-Fi. Lovely."

Head over to our What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver gallery for the first screenshots. And yes, this was announced during E3 week, but we didn't get to it in time. Slow news day what back off?

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • squarepusher #1 4 years ago

    DIE

  • Spanky #2 4 years ago

    /seconded

    FOAD

  • mischief #3 4 years ago

    A COOKING GAME?? WTF??!!!

    "I really want to get as many people as I can cooking simple, tasty food, so I'm really excited about bringing a book's worth of my recipes to a game for the first time,"

    I've just run this through translator and it has come out as.

    "I really want to squeeze as much money out of people as I can with as little effort as possible, so I'm really excited about getting paid a shitload for letting Atari stick my name on this tat"

    Also if you rearrange all the letters in the name "Jamie Oliver" you come out with the anagram "nob jockey".
    For the sake of all that is decent please nobody buy this. (although a sweary Gordon Ramsay version might be fun).

  • mossychops001 #4 4 years ago

    Pukker

  • syphaa #5 4 years ago

    Game of the year.

  • peterfll #6 4 years ago

    Dear god no.

    What next, Britains most "popular" "comedian" appearing in GTA4?

  • tobsen #7 4 years ago

    Right on, that's the true Nintendo spirit! Looking forward to "Grandma's Knitting Workshop" on the DS sometime later this year.

  • mattigan #8 4 years ago

    Jamie Oliver, while irritating, is in my opinion very good at producing recipes that are actually do'able for the average bloke which is the reason for his success. It took a few years for all the other celebtiry chefs to catch on to this before we started seeing all the '[insert chef's name here] makes it easy' cookbooks coming out that basically copied the concept.

    By which time he'd moved onto the whole 15 restaurant and school dinners thing (which my own children have actually benefitted from), he's no Gordon Ramsay but at least you have half a chance of actually replicating the stuff he makes on screen without spending £300 on exotic ingredients.

    If I had a DS I would buy this.
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/08 @ 07:46

  • Eraysor #9 4 years ago

    A Gordon Ramsay cooking game could be fucking hilarious, providing that idiotic Janet Street Porter woman is nowhere near it.