The listing, spotted by SimCookie, classifies the game as “Other/Mini game collection.” SimPrograms speculates that it could be a mini-game compilation in the spirit of MySims Party, released for the Wii in early 2009. At any rate, it should be different from normal Sims fare, which is usually filed under the “Simulation/Life Simulation” genre.

There’s been no official announcement about this The Sims 3 Life Moments game from EA. It’s not uncommon for ratings boards to spoil game reveals. While sometimes they’ll accidentally list a game for a platform it’s not appearing on, they rarely make up games altogether.

According to Destructoid, the two firms will showcase the Wii peripheral during an event in New York City tomorrow.

The Vitality Sensor clips onto the user’s finger and measures their pulse during play. The gadget was demonstrated at last year’s E3 by studio president Satoru Iwata.

Nintendo has previously announced that a game with a “theme of relaxation” is in the works. The next Legend Of Zelda title is also rumored to make use of the device.

The Vitality Sensor was originally expected to be unveiled at a press conference in July.

His reasoning is that both the Wii and Move controllers are so alike, and the fact that the PS3 will allow to play games in HD and the Wii doesn’t, basically means that Playstation Move is the Nintendo Wii HD that many gamers have been waiting for. Well he isn’t entirely wrong is he?

Eurogamer: What happened with The Agent?

Michael Pachter: When Microsoft paid Take-Two to make GTA IV non-exclusive… In other words, GTA IV was going to be a PS3 exclusive, but Microsoft paid Rockstar and Take-Two to make it a non-exclusive, and they paid them a lot. The number I’ve heard, and I’m sure this is right, is $75m, and that probably includes the funding for the first DLC packs too. It’s more than the $50m that people talk about.

And Sony – I’m not sure if they had a firm agreement but they may have had a handshake – said to Take-Two, “You’ve got to give us something else.” And the “something else” was a zombie game that Rockstar wanted to work on. But while Rockstar was in the planning phase, Dead Rising came out and Left 4 Dead was announced. Rockstar realized they were up against a saturated market and Valve, and, “What can we possibly do that will be any better than what Valve’s done?” They started again and that’s when they came up with the idea of The Agent, which nobody actually knows what it is. That is the back story.

There’s stuff that’s in the pipeline now, of course, but a publisher would be foolish to sign an exclusive deal. A developer could do it. I’ve told the Insomniac guys repeatedly. They don’t own the Ratchet & Clank IP or the Resistance IP but they’re such good developers. I’m like, “Why aren’t you guys doing multi-platform? Your games would sell.” As if those guys couldn’t create something – of course they could. It’s not like Sony came up with the art and graphics on Ratchet & Clank. The Insomniac guys are nuts not to do multi-platform. But they like their deal with Sony, so they’ll keep doing exclusives. LittleBigPlanet guys, Media Molecule, I feel the same way. What were they thinking selling to Sony? They must be Liberal Democrats!

Eurogamer: Let’s talk about E3. Who would you rather be: Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony?

Michael Pachter: It really depends on this 3DS and how good it is, because I don’t think Nintendo has anything else. Nintendo is on the verge of – certainly not dropping into third place or anything – losing its dominance, because I really truly believe that Sony Move is the Wii HD. I really believe it. That’s been my quote: I told everyone a Wii HD was coming this year, it just happens to say PS3 on the box. It is the Wii HD.

That’s a very easy upsell for Sony to say, “If you have a Wii and you really want to play high-def games on your new big high-def TV, we’ve got ‘em.” Sony is a winner and Nintendo is a loser on the console side, because the Wii Vitality Sensor isn’t going to excite anybody. But the 3DS will. If you look at Nintendo’s line-up, everything we care about is either out or known by now.

People are going to like Microsoft more than we expect. Microsoft isn’t concerned about the gaming community with Natal, they’re concerned about the gaming community’s mothers and girlfriends. I really do think the gaming press has completely missed the mark on this one, that Natal is not intended for you to get up there and pretend you’re holding a rifle and playing Call of Duty. It’s intended for your mum to use the frickin’ 360 to download a movie or watch Netflix and to make it less intimidating. The cool thing about Natal is the voice command. “Xbox on.” I mean, that’s cool. People will really like it when they see it and they begin to appreciate what it is.

But I will say Sony up, Microsoft neutral and Nintendo down on the console side.

If the 3DS is anything like those little 3D point-and-click cameras, because that screen technology is pretty cool and I’m sure it is that, it will really get people excited. Question is: what does it cost? If they get $189 for a DSi XL, do they think they’re going to get $300 for a 3DS? I don’t know. Maybe they will, but that’s a tough purchase for me. The 3DS is coming along at a really good time for them. I don’t think it’s good for the DSi XL. If they launch the thing [the 3DS] prior to holiday, I can’t imagine why anybody would buy a DSi XL this holiday.
Longer term, Nintendo does really start to look bad as Apple really starts to push the iPod Touch as a gaming device, and that’s happening this holiday. Again, the gaming press hasn’t figured it out. The gaming press doesn’t really understand the 12-year-old customer, nor do you guys care. Who plays DS games? Them, not us. Nintendo’s got problems this year but the 3DS will make them look great at E3.

That’s the manufacturer side. On the publisher side: Microsoft looks really good, they have a lot of content this year. People get psyched about Halo and Alan Wake will have just come out… Fable III. They have good content. I’m not sure who else anybody cares about. It’s all sequels: this year’s Call of Duty, etc. We’ve had a front-end-loaded year. We might see the Call of Duty action-adventure game but I don’t think anybody is going to get excited about that.

This is more a hardware show than in the past.

Eurogamer: Is Microsoft going to unveil an Xbox 360 Slim?

Michael Pachter: I’m certain that that is happening, I’m just not certain when. They told me a year ago, when I got my private Natal demo – a week before E3… I said something like, “Is this going to cost a lot of money? The big problem is retro-fitting every 360 and how are you going to get people to buy it?”

They said, and they said with great confidence, “We are going to pack it in every single Xbox 360.” A bundle? They said, “No, we are going to force people to buy it with every single Xbox 360.” And I said, “Oh that’s brilliant. That’s a great idea. If you could do it at a competitive price then the first year you’ll have eight million of them, the second year 16 million and after a couple of years it’ll be so ubiquitous everybody will make software for it. That’s smart.”

I’ve never heard them say that since. They didn’t say it at E3, they’ve never said it since. I don’t know if they still plan to do that or not. If they plan to do that, it makes sense to have… A current 360 costs them about $250 to make and the Arcade probably costs them $210 and they sell it for $200, so they’re right at break-even on the Arcade and making money on other SKUs.
If they can knock another $20 or $30 off the cost by using smaller components and smaller fans and cooler running components, get that cost down to $200 or $210 and then the Natal camera probably cost them $50 to make – they can actually bundle that whole thing and sell it at $299. That’s a pretty compelling offering. A lot of 360 owners will – especially guys who have the original – consider buying a new one. It will help them sell 360s.

I am certain that they’re working on a thinner model just to save money. They’d like to bundle Natal if they have the guts to pull it off and announce it at E3.

Eurogamer: What’s Apple up to?

Michael Pachter: The iPad, even though it looks like a super-large iPhone, actually has a pretty powerful processor. So the iPad is a PC. The quality of games you could offer on that are pretty amazing. The problem is, I can play Tetris on my laptop now, so I don’t really need to go buy another dedicated device to do that. Apple is not quite as ambitious as others think; they don’t think they have to dominate gaming tomorrow. They’ll work handhelds first. And then as all the kids who get iPod Touches graduate to iPhones and then to iPads, then they’ll start trying to encourage game development.

Problem is, Steve Jobs – who is certainly one of the greatest geniuses of our lifetime – has this odd phobia of buttons. Great. Guess what? We’re not going to be able to play flight sim games with no buttons. You have to provide the gamer the tools he needs to play the game. Nintendo carries it to the extreme with the Wii zapper and steering wheel and all that stuff. The controls have to fit the game. And the iPad can’t do that.

Michael Pachter is an analyst for Wedbush Morgan Securities.

Do you agree with Pachter’s views or not?

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MUM Lara Roberts has gone from well fat to Wii Fit after losing EIGHT STONE by working out with her games console. When she tipped the scales at 18 stone, Lara 38, struggled to climb the stairs and was embarrassed to have sex with her husband.

BEFORE - Lara at 18st

But a punishing fitness regime of an hour a day on her Nintendo Wii has seen her go from a straining size 22 to a slinky size 10 in a year. And the mum-of-two who felt like a “beached whale” now goes clubbing in killer heels and parades round the house in sexy undies.

“I feel like I’ve been reborn,” said Lara, of Farnborough, Hants.

She had always been slim until the birth of her second daughter, Paige, now eight, but she found it tough to lose her baby weight. She started comfort eating and got to the point of scoffing more than 4,000 calories a day.

“I’d have a cooked breakfast most days and cheese sandwiches and pizza for lunch,” Lara recalls.

“And I snacked constantly on biscuits and crisps and cakes and got through litres of fizzy drinks a day. Nothing could fill me up.”
Lara now admits that, although she put on a brave face about her size, she was desperately ashamed.

“While on holiday in Lanzarote, the family went on a camel ride but I refused – I was scared the poor camel wouldn’t be able to get up.”
“And I used to cringe when my husband Steve touched me, I felt horribly self-conscious and used to get breathless in bed from exertion.”

The turning point came for Lara when early in 2008, a friend told her she “never stopped eating”.

Too embarrassed about her weight to visit a gym or go out jogging, she bought a Wii Fit. “I knew if I didn’t do something, chances are I wouldn’t live to see my girls grow up,” she says. Lara started getting up at 5am every morning for a Wii Fit workout and ditched the comfort eating for a healthier diet.

AFTER - Lara lost 8st

A year later she now weighs just nine-and-a-half stone and jokes that pals of her daughter Abigail, 15, fancy her. She is even appearing on BBC 3 documentary I’m Hotter Than My Daughter next month.

“I’ve become a real exhibitionist,” she laughs. “And the best thing is the improvement in my sex life.

“As far as I’m concerned the Wii Fit saved my life.”

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Keep going on your journey towards better health with EA SPORTS Active More Workouts, the next iteration from the EA SPORTS Active franchise, the proven fitness alternative for the Nintendo Wii. Stay motivated, with over 35 all new exercises and fitness activities that will challenge you and help you obtain results.

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Release Date: November 17, 2009

With all-new cool down/warm up stations, abdominal exercises and a 6 Week Challenge EA SPORTS Active More Workouts is a full body, complete workout experience and a great addition to the EA SPORTS Active family.

Game Features:
* Warm Up and Cool Down Stations – 4 new exercises designed to warm up your body before a workout routine and 4 cool down exercises designed to stretch the muscles after a workout and help maintain flexibility.
* Abdominal Workouts – 4 new workouts that target the mid-section and will help you tone your abdominals. All detectable by placing the Nunchuck on the leg strap.
* 6 Week Challenge – A total body, structured fitness plan that accommodates both experienced 30 Day Challengers and new users of EA SPORTS Active. It works out all major body parts, adapts to your level of fitness and lets you track your progress week by week. With the weekly check-in you can track your weight, calories and workouts and compare your progress to previous weeks.
* Compatibility with EA SPORTS Active Personal Trainer- Get rewarded for your progress with EA SPORTS Active Personal Trainer, More Workouts will transfer your details like age, weight, name and gender. It will also recognize your workout information from the previous 4 weeks with EA SPORTS Active Personal Trainer, so you get to keep your trophies and completed goals.
* Fitness Book – Get fitness and nutrition tips from professionals with the included Fitness Book. This book will help you keep going on your journey to better health with tips, tricks and advice on good nutrition and fitness.

EA SPORTS Active More Workouts

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Release Date: November 17, 2009
Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii

* Four different modes built into the game include: Challenge, Speed, Trick, and Free Skate � in epic locations across the globe.
* Includes the Innovative ‘Ride’ board controller featuring motion sensing technology, smart sensors, a contoured base and a gritty surface to ensure a good grip.
* With no complicated control schemes to master, the game is designed to allow players to get on the board and start mastering the 100+ built in moves from the beginning.
* Eight player multiplayer and online play support lets you and your friends feel the thrill of skateboarding together.
* Multiple difficulty levels make the game a fun and challenging experience for people of all skill levels.

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Experience the true thrill of skateboarding as never before through the revolutionary new skateboard controller in Tony Hawk: Ride. Bundled with the Ride game, the unique motion-sensitive board controller redefines the action-sports genre by translating your body motions into the game. No buttons, no thumbs, no analog sticks�just you on the board. For the first time in video game history, anyone can jump on a skateboard and feel the freedom, creativity, and accomplishment of skateboarding.

Fans of board sports will love the authentic experience of the board controller, while the intuitive nature of the board and multiple difficulty settings make it a fun and exciting experience for people of all ages and skill levels. The ease with which anyone can pick up and play this game and each player’s unique playing style make this a fun social game for friends and family to play together. So, are you ready to Ride?

All About the Board
Using full motion sensing technology, the intuitive skateboard controller allows players to physically control the action by performing various movements and gestures on the board that directly translate into amazing tricks seen in the game. Closely resembling a “deck”–a board without wheels or trucks, which allow actual skateboards to maneuver their boards–the Ride controller is built around a combination of flat and rounded surfaces. Along the majority of the boards upper surface, as well as the middle center portion of its bottom, players will find flat, level surfaces that provide for players’ balance. This is countered by the rounded edges along the top at either ends, as well as the bottom outer edges. These allow for true to life trick performance mechanics which allows gamers can experience a full range of movement as they rotate, tilt and lift the board in a variety of ways to discover every trick in the game.

In addition, the Ride board comes with features designed to maximize ease and continuity of play. These include an upper surface texture similar to the grip tape used on real boards to help maintain player contact with and control of the board, and a full set of traditional navigational buttons that allow the player to interact with the game between levels and online when it is more convenient to do so.

Anyone Can Ride

Tony Hawk: Ride is designed to be fully accessible to everyone � from hardcore fans to players with no prior skateboarding experience. Moving away from the open-world game environment that recent releases in the franchise have embraced, Ride is instead built around a wide range of mini-challenges and events more concerned with riding than exploration. These cover every genre in modern skateboarding and aim to focus the player’s attention on developing their skills with the board. And this is easy to do with addictive and engrossing gameplay without complex button combinations or analog sticks that allow gamers to literally step on the board and play.

Exciting, Immersive and Social Game Play
Tony Hawk: Ride features a diverse set of trick, vert, and speed challenges that allow players at all levels to take on their friends and family as they compete with each other via “Hot Seat” game play. In addition, with robust multiplayer, online and create-a-skater modes, players can jump into a personalized and extremely social gaming experience.

NewU: Fitness First Personal Trainer (Wii) will be released on September 18, 2009

I am going to have to exercise 24/7 to keep up with all those Wii Fitness games!!! As there are quite a few more coming out this year…

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NewU Inside | Out is the only interactive fitness product for Nintendo Wii that combines both Fitness and Nutrition and teaches users with REAL VIDEO not computer graphics. It work using the Wii Balance Board and Wiimote controller to give you full feedback on your workouts. Don’t have a balance board? No problems, NewU also works with just the Wiimote controller.

Time to get in shape and be taught by real Fitness First personal trainers! NewU uses lets YOU choose what you want to achieve. With 25 goals for women and 25 goals for men available, select 2 and NewU will build you a custom workout plan based on your selection, choose another 2 or alter your initial selection and your plan will be adjusted to match. With 10 levels of difficulty, progress tracking, a variety of challenges (including Dance, Boxercise, Cardio, Army & Football) as well as a quick workout mode (there are 10, 20 and 30 min sessions) NewU has something for everyone.

All exercises and workouts have been built by the professionals at the worlds largest gym chain Fitness First so you can be sure they are taught correctly and more importantly safely.

The fitness is accompanied by a full nutrition programme designed and built by the experts at You Are What You Eat. With over 20 weeks of meals and snacks, full shopping lists, step by step guides on preparation, cooking and serving its the perfect accompaniment for anyone leading a healthy lifestyle or moving into one. Allergies to certain food groups are catered for, during your profile setup, just tell NewU what you cannot eat and it will exclude these from your custom recipe lists.

All recipes are designed and supplied by the nutrition experts at You Are What You Eat to ensure balanced and healthy meals and snacks.

Product Features

* Build your personalized workouts based on your own objectives. – Get in shape with workout programs built by Fitness First coaches.
* Choose among 4 real Fitness First personal trainers: 2 males & 2 females
* More than 80 exercices per trainer for a complete body workout.
* Train yourself in 4 different locations: Beach, mountain, forest or gym
* Create your own profile: height, weight, sexe, age, build, food habits and NewU will define a special programm for you.
* Choose your workout according to your agenda – Train yourself every day and reach your final goal or make a quick workout sets to relax after work or to get active in the morning.
* Balance your food and match a healthy diet with more than 130 recipes created by You Are What You Eat. – 20 weeks of healthy balanced meals and snacks.
* Various and tasty recipes.

* Healthy personalised diet built around your specific requirements (i.e. no wheat / nuts , gluten intolerant)
* 50 NewU goals specially designed for men and women. – 25 goals for men: Six-pack for summer, New dad, Banish the belly, Slim down.
* 25 goals for women: Bikini fit, Goodbye tummy, Drop a dress size for the wedding, little black dress, new mum.
* Access special workout programs to test different skills. – 5 Challenges: Dance, Army, Boxing, Cardio, Football.
* Wii Balance Board compatible and real interaction with the Wii mote for a more accurate feedbacks on your training.

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The Beatles: Rock BandRelease Date: September 9, 2009

Publisher: MTV Games
Developer: MTV Games
Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, Wii
Category: Music, Music & Party

Product Description
Experience The Beatles music and legacy like never before, utilizing the core Rock Band game play. “The Beatles: Rock Band” in an unprecedented, experiential progression through and celebration of the music and artistry of The Beatles. The game will allow fans to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or drums and experience The Beatles extraordinary catalogue of music through game play that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band’s legendary career.

* Advanced Harmonix game technology brings The Beatlesâ„¢ experience to life
* Sing three-part vocal harmonies with support for up to three mics
* Experience historic Beatles performance venues from the Cavern Club to the roof at Savile Row
* Developed and co-created with The Beatlesâ„¢, providing a true-to-life gaming experience
* Hear never released conversations among the band during Abbey Road recording sessions

SONGS

45 legendary songs, including “I Saw Her Standing There”, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, “I Feel Fine”, “Day Tripper”, “Taxman”, “I Am the Walrus”, “Back in the U.S.S.R.”, “Octopus’s Garden”, “Here Comes the Sun”, and “Get Back”. Additional songs will be available for download through The Beatles™: Rock Band™ music store.

* Advanced Harmonix game technology brings The Beatlesâ„¢ experience to life
* Sing three-part vocal harmonies with support for up to three mics
* Experience historic Beatles performance venues from the Cavern Club to the roof at Savile Row
* Developed and co-created with The Beatlesâ„¢, providing a true-to-life gaming experience
* Hear never released conversations among the band during Abbey Road recording sessions

SONGS

* I Saw Her Standing There
* Twist And Shout
* Do You Want To Know A Secret
* I Want to Hold Your Hand
* Can’t Buy Me Love
* I Wanna Be Your Man
* I Feel Fine
* Eight Days A Week
* Day Tripper
* Paperback Writer
* Taxman
* And Your Bird Can Sing
* Yellow Submarine
* Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
* With a Little Help from My Friends
* Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows
* I Am The Walrus
* Back In The U.S.S.R.
* Octopus’s Garden
* Birthday
* Revolution
* Here Comes The Sun
* Dig A Pony
* Get Back
* I’ve Got A Feeling
* “Boys” / Cavern Club
* “A Hard Day’s Night” / Ed Sullivan Theater
* “I’m Looking Through You” / Shea Stadium
* “If I Needed Someone” / Shea Stadium
* “Ticket to Ride” / Shea Stadium
* “Drive My Car” / Budokan

* “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “Getting Better” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “Good Morning” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “Hello, Goodbye” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “Hey Bulldog” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “Dear Prudence” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “Helter Skelter” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “Something” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “Come Together” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
* “Don’t Let Me Down” / Rooftop Concert
* “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” / Rooftop Concert
* “I Me Mine” / Rooftop Concert
* And more…

Number of Players : 1-6 Players

Release Date: September 8, 2009

Publisher: Ignition Entertainment
Developer: Vanillaware
Platform: Wii
Category: Role-Playing

A number of cursed blades exist throughout the world.

Blades that thirst for blood the moment they’re drawn. Even those blades thought to be holy slowly become corrupted over time as they are used in hatred and drenched in blood. Those who wield these blades slowly become homicidal. The curses laid on these blades are said to condemn those who use them to tragic and untimely deaths. It is in the Genroki era, a period of time in which the shogun Tsumayoshi Tokogawa reigned, that the force of the damned began to emerge, threatening the peace and prosperity that had long existed in the world. The cursed blades became the focus of the greed, self-righteousness, and arrogance of those who’d gain possession of them, and inevitably it was these conflicting desires that led to war. As the flames of chaos and disaster spread, denizens from the netherworld were dragged into the confusion as not only the evil spirits were summoned by the swords, but the Dragon and Demon Gods as well. How will the destinies of those drawn to these cursed blades unfold?

Key Game Features

* A unique action RPG, from the makers of Odin Sphere, with a story pulled from Japanese mythology.
* Entrancing 2D animation with the look of beautiful hand-drawn watercolor painting.
* Playable characters including a male ninja or female kunoichi, both possessing a wide variety of ninja skills necessary for progression through the levels in not only side-scrolling fashion, but vertical progression elements as well.
* Controller support for both the Wii Remote and the Nintendo Classic Controller.
* Three progressively more difficult game modes: Unmatched Mode, Carnage Mode and Insane Death Mode.
* A large variety of play environments featuring optional challenge stages and mini-games throughout.

Release Date: September 8, 2009

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