'For Dummies' book series to get game treatment

Beanbag and EA team up on Dummies

MCV Staff 11th August 2008 Publishing

Amercian casual game developer Beanbag has partnered with EA and Wiley Publishing to produce a series of games based on the ‘For Dummies’ books, reports CasualGaming.biz.

The studio, which has offices in Texas and Ontario, is readying a number of titles for release on PC and DS later this year, including Poker for Dummies, Brain Training for Dummies and Travel Games for Dummies. It’s also using EA’s Pogo online portal to distribute further games in the series.

For more information, check out the full story on CasualGaming.biz.

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