Nintendo has launched for its portable game device Nintendo DS the game Hotel Dusk: Room 215.
Hotel Dusk is a point and click adventure game where you are playing an ex-cop trying to track down a missing friend. On Amazon, the game is already out of stock (too many Xmas purchases I guess)
You maybe remember one of my very first post on Hotel Blogs when I was writting about the online game Habbo Hotel back in January last year. Well the game attracts more than 7 million users (and 70M characters created) now across the world. The Finish company behind it - Sulake - employs more than 250 people and was aiming to achieve $77M in Sales in 2006. Since then, the company has been listed by Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 as the 12th fastest growing technology company in Europe. Back in July last year, € 6M were injected in the company by Movida Group based in Japan. Beyond the fact that Habbo Hotel is a game, it is after all a leading teen online community across the globe (many local versions of the game are available in different countries). Lately, a partnership with a movie production company Lionsgate (who has produced Saw, Hostel, The Descent and many more movies) has annouced that the teen community will be able to give some feedback on the fate of a future movie based on the Habbo characters.
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The virtual world of Habbo Hotel is clearly quite entertaining. This is to my knowledge the first hotel virtual game available on the Internet. This is not a business management hotel game but much more a place where people meet, drink, sleep, eat in a hotel called Habbo Hotel. When you “check in” meaning when you enter in the game for the first time, you need to create your character “an Habbo” and start to walk around the hotel. You can design your room, manage parties or invite people for dinner. This new gaming environment is targeted for the Teens community but the site is claiming that adults do play as well. This game has been franchised in 16 countries in the world including France, Netherlands, and UK. The game is played by approximately 4.4 millions users on average per month. 40 million Habbo characters have been created since the birth of the game in 2001. The company behind it is Sulake Corporation, a Finish group which has been ranked in 2005 the 8th fastest growing technology in Europe by Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500.
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