SAN FRANCISCO – May 7, 2009 – Today Ubisoft revealed new gameplay details about the upcoming comedy-adventure Rabbids Go Home™. The party is over and the Rabbids are ready to go home…to the moon! Developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, the game features a new wacky storyline, diverse gameplay and intuitive controls, and a vast array of environments that leads to hilarious capers as the Rabbids wreak havoc on the Humans in pursuit of their quest. Rabbids Go Home is scheduled to ship Holiday 2009 for the Wii™ system from Nintendo.

About the Game:
The Rabbids first comedy-adventure will take them to the moon or bust! Those crazy Rabbids have an infallible plan: collect all the human stuff they can find, heap it onto a giant pile and literally climb home to the moon. But not so fast! The Humans revolt, unleashing the Verminators whose only objective is to exterminate the Rabbids. Rabbids Go Home game features include:

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– Releasing May 12th
– 1000 points
– Co-op, but most likely local only

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Hamburg/Germany, May 7th, 2009 – Wii™, PC and the Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft are the systems on the starting blocks for Summer Athletics 2009. The sports game will be available on all three platforms this summer. The Wii version even incorporates some of the physical elements of track and field thanks to the Wii Balance Board™.

In Summer Athletics 2009 the controls are individually designed for each platform and discipline, taking maximum advantage of each formats’ unique strengths. This makes Summer Athletics 2009 easy-to-learn sports fun with a huge variety of gameplay.

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Nintendo has distributed a partially updated North American/European/Japanese release schedule. Some newsworthy details below:

– Hoshi no Kirby (Japan) – 2009 (Listed on the schedule once again)
– Sin and Punishment 2 (NA/Europe/Japan) – Still on track for 2009
– Cosmic Walker (Japan) – 2009
– No Wii Sports Resort release date in Japan yet

The remakes of the classic Pokemon Gold/Silver editions have just been confirmed. The two titles are scheduled to release in Japan this fall. As expected, the games are seeing a release on the DS and will be called Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver.

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