Cooking Mama has served up 500,000 units for the Nintendo DS version since its release 11 months ago. Rightfully enough, Majesco Games has recently announced the development of Cooking Mama 2.

Aside from getting half a million in sales, Cooking Mama has won "Most Innovative DS Design of E3 2006" from IGN and the "Nod Award" from GameDaily, saying that Cooking Mama is "a fun DS game that uses the stylus to near perfection"

Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends promises to be just as fun but with much more challenge as budding chefs out there will be serving up their treats to nine friends who will be judging their works. A Wii version has also been announced to be in the works.