Only a week and a half after box swap questioned Ubisoft's My Weight Loss Coach boxart -- as box swap made a habit of doing with the publisher's boxes -- the placeholder art posted on Amazon has been replaced with a much more predictable and bland cover.
Ubisoft, announced that it will publish My Health Coach: Weight Management for the Nintendo DS system, in summer 2008. Developed in Ubisoft's Montreal studio, under the guidance of both a fitness coach and a nutritionist, My Health Coach: Weight Management is a new and innovative way to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle and loose weight. For the first time on Nintendo DS, My Health Coach: Weight Management includes an exclusive accessory: a pedometer which counts the steps you walk each day.
This week's North American releases span the PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, and PSP.
G4tv.com has clicked on too many unfortunate videos to be happy about anything called "My Horse and Me," but they're making an exception for Atari's My Horse and Me videogame. Hyped as "the complete horseback riding and equestrian lifestyle video game experience" the game will be coming to PC, Wii and Nintendo DS.
Kotaku writes: "I was pretty disappointed with MySims for the Nintendo Wii. While it did allow me to create a digital mini-Crecente and guide him through a cute and colorful world, which has long been a dream of mine, I found it lacked a certain something. It just wasn't fun. Could an online component change that? We'll find out this October when EA releases MySims for the PC."
EA Casual Entertainment president Kathy Vrabeck has confirmed to investors that next-gen versions of the publisher's The Sims franchise are to begin production within three years.
Link's latest Legend of Zelda adventure for Nintendo DS debuts at No1 in Spain and Germany, and at No2 in Sweden.
MySims was released on Wii and Nintendo DS a couple of weeks ago, and has been doing quite well to boot. In keeping with the games' theme of helping out others, EA have been generous enough to commission a set of accessories inspired by the games with all proceeds going to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
Check out the full list of new video game releases for the week of September 17, 2007 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!
Loot Ninja was very excited to invited by EA to come visit them today to debut their newest title in their Sims Label, MySims for the Wii and DS. This is a fairly exclusive event with only a handful of Blog Sites being invited for the first ever EA My Blogger's Day Event. EA has been very secretive about what will actually go on, but Loot Ninja did finally get an agenda to give them an idea what to expect. Looks like they will get an opportunity to tour their campus in Redmond, California as well as get some hands on time with the final build of the game and meet some of the developers of the title. Here is a look at the day's agenda: