Although rumoured for a while now, EA has announced that the Sims 2 Pets will be heading to the Wii in June, Vooks is reporting that the game will feature all the classic Sims action as well as the ability to create your own pet. Not only that but you will be able to use the Wii Remote point to control the game. First screenshots and video of the game have also been released.
There had been rumours that Electronic Arts' Skate It for the Nintendo Wii would ship with a clip-on frame for the Wii Balance Board to make it more skateboard-like for a more authentic experience, but it's a suggestion that EA has denied.
It was thought that Electronic Arts' Skate It for the Nintendo Wii wouldn't feature Wii Balance Board controlled tricks, but new promotional material shows that it does!
Kotaku had a chat with EA and they said, "they're actually looking into the possibility of shipping the game with some sort of form that snaps onto the balance board to give it more of a skateboard look and feel."
"I would say without hesitation that our quality is going to be up this year versus the prior year," Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said in a Tuesday earnings call.
Riccitiello has made it a very public priority to up the quality of EA's titles. A recent review score average of EA's titles was 77 percent, but Riccitiello said at an analyst meeting in February that he wants EA to exceed 80 percent by fiscal 2011.
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Announcing the development of a sequel to the pretty awesome SKATE for Xbox 360 and PlayStation3, EA today confirmed that the sequel, SKATE It, would also be available for the Wii and DS, with the former offering Balance Board functionality.
Electronic Arts is set to bring a spin-off from Skate for both Wii and DS, tentatively titled Skate It.
The original version trounced all over Tony Hawk by heavily focusing on dual-analogue stick control for stuns and moves. It was bastard hard at first but worth the blood, sweat and tears if you stuck with it.
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IGN writes..."Last year, Electronic Arts and Black Box literally reinvented the skateboarding videogame design with Skate, an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 experience that put heavy focus on dual-analog stick control for its gameplay. What were once automatic button presses in games like Tony Hawk now had to be worked for by flicking your thumbs to pull them off.
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