Like so many Europeans before him Max has travelled West in search of new frontiers, gold and glory. And today he finally reached his destination arriving on WiiWare in the Americas. The game can now be purchased from connected Wii’s all over the continent.

Max and all of us here at Press Play thank all our American followers for your awesome dedication and patience. We really hope you will enjoy the game!

Now go shopping

This is a bit late, but we have been terribly busy getting ready for the US release on March 8.

Anyway, last friday we had the honour of recieving the award for Talent of the year at the Danish Game Awards. Mikkel and Lasse were attending the show, and as far as I know they had quite a night.

Also Max & the Magic Marker is nominated for the IGF, D2D Vision Award. We are very proud of this, as the competition is pretty impressive. The winners will be announced at the GDC on March 11.

Wish us luck!

It’s been an exciting day here at the Nintendo Media Summit in San Francisco. A lot of games were announced and they introduced a new Nintendo DS XL, but more importantly they revealed that Max & the Magic Marker will launch in North America on March 8′th.

Oooohhh, Exciting!

Love from San Francisco!

PC version to launch in German stores on Feb. 23rd

One week from now – on Tuesday the 23rd – Max & the Magic Marker will escape his downloadable neighborhood and jump into real world stores around Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

He is brought there by German publisher TGC -The Games Company, who hopefully will be adding more countries very soon. Followers of Max would remember this was already announced several weeks ago – but now there is a date and everything.

Also, we updated the review list – some nice new reviews has been added.

This and eventual future updates to the game can be found on maxandthemagicmarker.com/updates/

WiiWare version: Some of you are also asking about fixes to the bugs that are in the Wii build. We are eager to fix these bugs as well, but as patching is not so common on WiiWare, we can’t really give any time frame on this, but we are working on it. Also we can say that they have been fixed in the US build as well as in the Japanese build, as announced Thursday.

Have a nice saturday!

Today the it’s finally official official. Max will take over where Michael Learns To Rock left off (a Danish band who made it big in Japan).

We have been lucky enough to hook up with the Japanese publisher Marvelous Entertainment (Little Kings Story and Muramasa) who will be taking Max & the Magic Marker to the land of sushi. This is in many ways a childhood dream come true, as we are quite a few people here at the office with a soft spot for ninjas.

The logo above is the official logo for Rakugaki Hero (Max & the Magic Marker), and from what we are told, it means Graffiti Hero.

Below are a few pics I found here from the Japanese safety manual. I wonder what they mean… any suggestions are welcome.

Have a nice weekend!

We are very excited that we can finally say it is coming soon. We apologize to everyone that hoped for an earlier release – so did we. If you can’t wait for the Wii version, you can of course already play the game now on your PC or Mac.

We are happy to announce that Max & the Magic Marker for PC and Mac will be available for download from this very website tomorrow the 5th of February. The game can also be bought from various download-services but if you want to make sure you support a small developer, you should buy it here and tell your friends to do the same. Go on! Tell them!

Max has been out for a week now, and that mean it is time to catch up on the first reviews.

Overall we are very happy with the reviews we have got read this far! Max right now sports a metacritic on 77, which we are very happy about, and many of the reviewers also seem to have had a lot of fun playing the game. We have collected some of the reviews and link to them from the “Press page”.

And for the danish audience, check out Troldspejlets review – a childhood dream of ours to see our game there!

If you are one of those people who think spending 1000 Wii points on a game like Max is way too much. Do not worry!
In October Nintendo announced the Connection Ambassador Program, handing out free Wii points to both those who help others getting their Wii hooked up and the people who get helped. It’s a win-win situation.

The system works like this: Help a friend connect his Wii to WiiWare. Click the “Connection Ambassador Program”-button and type in each others Friend codes. And voila! you are both now 500 points richer!
If you still think it is too much, just find another friend and you will get Max for free!