Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced that it will publish Emergency Heroes exclusively on the Wii™ home video game system from Nintendo.

Developed by Ubisoft Reflections and Ubisoft Barcelona, Emergency Heroes is an open world rescue driving game. Young rescuers can jump into 16 different variations of next-generation rescue vehicles as a police officer, firefighter or EMT and navigate through the sprawling streets of San Alto, keeping citizens safe along the way. Emergency Heroes will be available in North America in May 2008.

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Assassin’s Creed is based on a the Hashshashin or Assassins, a religious group of Ismaili Muslims, thought to be active in the 8th to 14th centuries as a mystic secret society specializing in terrorizing the Abbasid elite. The group transformed the act of murder into a system directed largely against Seljuk Muslim rulers that had been persecuting their sect. Assassins were meticulous in killing the targeted individual, seeking to do so without any additional casualties and innocent loss of life (more…)

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Wacky and slightly crude humored minigames made Rayman Raving Rabbids one of the most successful launch titles for the Nintendo Wii. Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 promises 60 new minigames and challenges (more…)

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Cosmic Family is the first early-learning game on the Wii.
Targeted at player’s ages 4-8 years old, the game introduces young players to a variety of funny characters -the Cosmic Family, and their “Rocket House”. The game offers direct access to 20 mini-games, or alternatively players can choose “The Adventure”, where they (more…)

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Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse. Edutainment typically seeks to instruct its audience by embedding lessons in some familiar form of entertainment such as video games or computer games.

Much has been written about (self-proclaimed) Edutainment games with little or no educational value that are just pure game (and usually not very good ones). Or alternatively, the ‘game’ part is really grim and hopeless, reinforcing the child’s perceptions that learning is boring. Edutainment Toy and Game makers Leapfrog and Vtech tried their best to keep the genre alive but it was Nintendo’s Brain Age for the Handheld ‘DS’ who brought Edutainment back into spotlight. The success of Brain Age inspired several spin-offs, but none with a budget big enough to make an impact.

This is about to change…

Ubisoft announced the “My Coach” series.
The games will allow players to improve themselves and learn in an interactive and stimulating way. The first two games in the line are “My Word Coach” and “My Life Coach.” “My Word Coach,” is being developed in collaboration with linguists and will help players improve their verbal communication and vocabulary in a fun way. “My Word Coach” can be played alone or with friends on Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS, to be released in Fall 2007. “My Life Coach” is being developed in collaboration with a behaviorist. “My Life Coach” is a personal coach that gives anybody concerned about their well being the willpower they need to change their habits the way they want in a motivating and fun way. “My Life Coach” will be available for the Nintendo DS in Holiday 2007.

Should be fun – we’ll keep you posted.

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