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Cooking Mama goes mobile

Get your whisk on as DS title heads to phones

Cooking Mama goes mobile
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Nigella Lawson has to be the rudest woman on the planet. We watched her show last night, and not only did she turn up at a friend's dinner party with limelight-hogging biscuits she'd cooked herself, but she also ate half of them en route!

She's one cooking mama we wouldn't invite round (are you seeing what we're doing here?). Cooking Mama, on the other hand, we would. The popular Wii/DS chop-'em-up is coming to mobile phones, courtesy of Taito. Well, US mobile phones, anyway.

The publisher hasn't said much about the game, other than it'll be a "simplified" version of the DS title and is expected to come out early next year.

"Given the success of Cooking Mama on other platforms, Cooking Mama is sure to be a hit on wireless phones as well," said Keiji Fujita, the game's co-producer, sounding more complacent than he probably meant to. "The style of gameplay is accessible and fun for casual and serious gamers of all ages."

It could be a winner, if Taito gets the controls right. Click 'Track It!' for alerts whenever we cover the game, including any news of a European release date.

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)