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Majesco is preparing to make Christmas and this year’s holiday season a bit more merry. It turns out that the next DS entry in the Cooking Mama series, Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop is going to be making it’s North American debut in November, 2009. Like Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends, it is going to cost $29.99. Once again, players will have the opportunity to master 80 new recipes with Mama’s help.

The gameplay is pretty much exactly the same, and many familiar modes will be returning. You can learn to make recipes with Mama’s assistance in Let’s Cook Mode, try to appease your friends with recipes you’ve made without Mama in Let’s Eat Mode, look back at some of your past meals with the Picture Diary and engage in cooking competitions against three of your friends over local Wi-Fi in the Time Challenge.

The subtitle of the game comes from the two new game modes, Let’s Shop and Combine and Create. In Let’s Shop, players will experience all new mini-games as Mama picks up necessary ingredients at her local grocery store so you can create new recipes. In Combine and Create, you get to make your own recipes, using the various mini-games and steps used to create the 80 recipes included in the game.

I’m not so sure how the Let’s Shop Mode will work out, but the Combine and Create Mode sounds pretty promising. I was hoping that sort of option would have been included in Cooking Mama 2 or the Wii versions of the game.

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