Hello Kitty leaves Sanrio Town for the latest game featuring our favorite white cat! Oh no! Fear not, though, because you’re going to be able to help her in her new adventures in the city!

“Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams” is the latest in the line of games made by Sanrio for its fans. In this one, the player, as Kitty, starts on the ground floor of an apartment building, and the goal is to be able to move up to the penthouse by playing a series of mini-games. Other well-loved Sanrio characters make appearances to join in your big-city adventure.

This game was developed in cooperation with Sanrio Digital.

Hi everyone! We’re about to say goodbye�to the month of�June, which pretty much means that time’s running out for anybody and everybody who wants to enter the HKO trailer competition. The response has been pretty good, and as was stated in the last post, we’ve seen some pretty good entries from people who’ve tested the game itself to people who wanted to (but weren’t able to, unfortunately).

Just because we’ve got a pretty good list of entries now doesn’t mean that it should stop you from sending in your own work though! You’ve still got some time, so get crackin’ on those videos and wow us all here at Sanriotown with your artistic prowess!

So remember: you’ve got up to midnight of June 30, 2008 (just a few days from now!)�to send in your entries. You have to use all of the elements found in the trailer pack provided, but everything else is pretty much up to you. Just make sure to come up with the best trailer you can imagine!

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Hello Kitty Online (HKO), produced by Sanrio Digital, is an upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) based on the famous Sanrio characters. Hello Kitty Online will allow players to explore and adventure in Sanrio’s fantasy world, a magical land bursting with cuteness but also fraught with many dangers. Hello Kitty Online will launch in the second half of 2008.

Work is also ongoing on the game’s first expansion pack, to be titled “Island Adventure” and scheduled for release in 2009.

Island Adventure will be the first expansion pack in gaming history that will reduce rather than expand an existing game world. The premise is the crash-landing (without casualties) on a mysterious island in the South Pacific of Hello Kitty Air flight 337, which had been carrying Hello Kitty and friends to the 5^th Cuteness World Symposium in Perth, Australia.

Our heroes – including Hello Kitty, Dear Daniel, Keroppi, Badtz-Maru and many others – find themselves marooned on the nameless island along with a couple hundred fellow passengers, whose roles will be filled by end-users. Soon the survivors discover that the island is inhabited by a community of squat, foul-mouthed, inferiorly-animated characters whose only intention is to send the newcomers packing by any means possible.

As tensions with the island’s original inhabitants rise to a boil, a crisis of leadership is brooding within the ranks of our cuddly friends. Will Hello Kitty manage to hold together the band of survivors using her trademark cuteness and amiability? Or will Badtz-Maru rise to power, arguing that survival on the island requires ruthlessly doing unto others before they do unto you? Who will you follow?

Players will embark on missions to explore the island, find out more about the natives, and gather resources necessary for the survival of the group. Can you save Hello Kitty and friends and help them get off the island and back to Sanrio Land?

Island Adventure will include many improvements, refinements, and additions to the basic game. Confirmed in the expansion are the following:

• Increased level and skill cap

• Raids

• PvP

• Hello Kitty and Badtz-Maru player sessions – take control of one of these powerful characters for up to one hour in times of crisis

• New skills and abilities: dessert-making, dual-wield (lollipops, wands), summon Twin Stars, and many more

• Cross-franchise mayhem

 Hello Kitty fans who love puzzles will love the Hello Kitty Rubik’s cube!

Not only does it have different colors on all six sides like a regular Rubik’s cube, it also has different pictures of Hello Kitty that you can assemble and re-assemble to provide an even bigger challenge.

With this, not only will you get your dose of cuteness, you’ll also be able to exercise your brain wherever you go!

It is 798 yen.

Thank you for your overwhelming response! We’re sad to say this, but we have now stopped accepting applications for players of the closed beta version of the Hello Kitty Online game.

We’ve received almost 50,000 applications for this. We’ll be sending all of you instructions on how you can get the chance to receive your account for the closed beta of HKO.

Again, thanks to all of you!

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