Video game developer, Majesco Entertainment, has released Blokus Portable: Steambot Championship for the PSP (PlayStation Portable).

Developed by IREM Software Engineering Inc., Blokus Portable is based on the world-renowned Blokus board game that has earned 26 prestigious toy awards and ranks among the best of 2007 holiday board games lists.

Gui Karyo, Executive Vice President of Operations, Majesco noted, “With three million units sold and credit as the most acclaimed game of the century, the Blokus board game is clearly an international sensation. Based on this incredibly successful property, Blokus Portable combines strategic gameplay with 16 player support to make it the perfect social puzzle game that’s easy to pick up, yet hard to put down.”

The rules of Blokus are simple: Each player places his/her pieces on the board in turn, ensuring that pieces of the same color touch at one or more corners, but never along the sides. The objective is to strategize and place as many pieces as you can before your opponent/s beats you to it. Based on the same basic rules and intuitive gameplay that made the board game a success, Blokus Portable allows up to 16 people to play in ad hoc wireless mode, or up to three friends to play simultaneously using one Universal Media Disc (UMD) in the ad hoc game sharing mode. Blokus Portable combines the original 4-player Blokus plus the 2-player Blokus Travel/Duo, while letting players customize their own character and unlock 18 additional characters from the Steambot Chronicles series.

Blokus Portable: Steambot Championship will launch in early 2008 for a suggested retail price of $19.99.

Headquartered in Edison, NJ, with an international office based in Bristol, UK, Majesco Entertainment Company is a provider of video games for the mass market, with a focus on publishing video games for leading portable systems and the Wii™ console. Product highlights include Nancy Drew™, Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends and Zoo Hospital™ for the Nintendo DS™ and Cooking Mama: Cook Off for the Wii™ console.

Sekkoia is the publisher of the Blokus range of board games (1 million units sold per year), made of Blokus Classic, Blokus Travel (AKA Blokus Duo), Blokus Trigon and Blokus Giant. Blokus is sold in more than 40 countries around the world.

To learn more, please visit: www.blokus.com.