505 Games has announced that they will be publishing Cooking Mama 2, Office Create's sequel to the original Nintendo DS Cooking Mama as well as Wii's Cooking Mama: Cook Off in Europe.

Cooking Mama 2 will feature similar gameplay to the original titles, adding new recipes, twice as many minigames, and as 505 Games puts it, "an all-new multiplayer mode"—presumably either different from Cook Off's multiplayer mode or simply ignorant of its existence.

Both already-released Cooking Mama games have been rather successful in North America and Europe. The new games are slated for an early 2008 release in Europe; presumably we'll be hearing soon from North American publisher Majesco about plans to publish the game stateside.