I love practically everything Michel Ancel has worked on, that is a fact I cannot deny, so naturally I’m super excited about Ancel’s upcoming Rayman 4 - Raving Rabbids from none other than Ubisoft for the Nintendo Wii. Though development is still well underway on the title, Ubisoft began their promotional campaign earlier this year, giving us Nintendo fanboys a beautiful look at what the Wii is capable of and a peek at the adorable art-style and direction. Part of the campaign featured a series of bunny facts videos, which also stars Michel Ancel, naturally being attacked by the little rabbit monsters. Thanks to YouTube, there’s a video up of all of these lessons including a brief introduction by Michel Ancel himself, which was used at E3 2006.

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The long-awaited and somewhat troubled MMORPG set in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth appears to finally be close to completion. Announced back in 1998 by Sierra, the game has had a troubled development history before Turbine signed-on to continue development, and eventually buying the publishing rights from Vivendi (the will co-publish this title actually). As of June 2006, Turbine has been accepting applications for their alpha testing phase, which has recently begun. The game will be based in the Lord of the Rings universe, which takes references from Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King and The hobbit, but unfortunately nothing from The Silmarillion. Gameplay is primarily PvE, with few details on the PvP features being announced. Will this be the WoW killer everyone has been waiting for? I have my doubts, but as is usual with the industry, there’s a surprise around every corner. Turbine is currently accepting applications for US and EU beta testers, with a starting to set to be announced soon.

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