Vivendi buys Assault Heroes dev

By Robert Purchese Published 20 February, 2007

Five for XBLA still on track.

Vivendi has plunged a virtual hand deep into its publishing pockets this afternoon to buy Wanako Games, the developer behind the Xbox Live Arcade hit Assault Heroes.

"The combination of Wanako's development experience, creativity and technical capabilities will contribute greatly to our presence as a leading publisher of console downloadable online games,"said Ed Zobrist, president of Sierra Online.

The next downloadable offering from Wanako will be 3-D Ultra Minigolf Adventure, an arcade style tee-'em-off. It will apparently feature over 30 holes, a course editor and multiplayer enjoyment for up to four human beings.

It joins a host of games available from Vivendi in 2007, which we hadn't forgotten about, promise.

"We're working on 5 games for this year," a spokesperson reminded us this afternoon.

Those will be Red Baron, a flying simulation set in WWI; Megaforce, a universally-panned filmthat was later ported to the Atari 2600; Battlestar Galactica, a space-combat game based on the television series; Incredible Machine, a puzzling puzzler; and Wanako's 3-D Ultra Minigolf.

Meanwhile you can catch-up with our Assault Heroes review from late last year by stepping through the magic writing.

It really is a pity we couldn't work out how to include, "Daylight come, and me Wanako home". One day, one day.

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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.

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  • glaeken #1 5 years ago

    So is the Red Baron the same as the Dynamix version on the PC years ago?

    Actually it must be as The incredible machine was also a Dynamix title.
    Edited by 1 at 20/02/07 @ 15:59

  • BBIAJ #2 5 years ago

    "It really is a pity we couldn't work out how to include, "Daylight come, and me Wanako home". One day, one day."

    Class!

  • Uncle_Fishboy #3 5 years ago

    I used to love the incredible machine on the pc. I used to sit close up against the screen and have those balls whacking against my chin. And the little mice, how I loved playing with myself and those little mice. Is this game coming to XBLA? I need to touch myself if it is.

  • chupachups #4 5 years ago

    "So is the Red Baron the same as the Dynamix version on the PC years ago? "

    I think so, Sierra bought Dynamix in the early 90s, and Vivendi later bought Sierra so I assume that included all the Dynamix games too.

  • smelly #5 5 years ago

    Wanaka : Best company name ever!