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Critics have often decried video games for cutting into kids' reading time. While this isn't necessarily true, particularly with games like RPGs, the argument has some merit. Further complicating the issue is that a video game console is bulky and hard to handle without a controller-issues not inherent to a book. There is one system that bypasses them. The Nintendo DS folds just like a book and is easy to handle with its small size and touch controls. Nintendo has already captialized on this with its 100 Classic Books release. Now Electronic Arts is doing the same with the children's market by creating FLIPS.
With UK publishers Egmont and Penguin as partners, EA plans to debut the series on December 4th, 2009. Each Game Card will have six to eight titles. So far works available include items by Enid Blyton, Cathy Cassidy, and Eoin Colfer. The Too Ghoul for School series will also make an appearance. Each author (and the series) will receive a dedicated Game Card.
The FLIPS titles will take advantage of all the capabilities the DS offers. In addition to containing the books and using the touch controls to turn pages, each one will offer further interactive capabilities. Quizzes, links, and finding references to characters are the ones known so far.
For interested parties, the initial FLIPS lineup is as follows:
- Enid Blyton (Egmont) - The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, The Folk of the Faraway Tree, Enchanted World - Petal and the Eternal Bloom, Enchanted World - Melody and the Enchanted Harp, Enchanted World - Silky and the Rainbow Feather
- Cathy Cassidy (Penguin)- Scarlett, Angel Cake, Sundae Girl, Shine on Daizy Star, GingerSnaps, Driftwood
- Eoin Colfer (Penguin) - Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident, Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code, Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox
- Too Ghoul For School (Egmont) - Silent but Deadly, The In-Spectres Call, Ghoul Dinners, The Bubonic Builders, Attack of the Zombie Nits, School Spooks Day, French Fright, Terror In Cubical Four
The American release date for FLIPS remains unknown.
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