EA continue love affair

At the moment a surprising partner is lapping up their ability to release exclusive content to Nintendo machines, and it's a surprising customer perhaps - EA.

Best known for their throngs of sporting titles, games that often suit the hardcore gamer and of course, The Sims - EA have recently been very keen on releasing Wii versions of their big brand names, as well as developing exclusive software.

The latest talking topic is somthing that's currently dubbed EA Playground. IGN have published a preview of the as-yet-unannounced game, a mini-game based title for Wii owners. The DS version will have different mini games to the Wii, with each machine's unique abilities being focused on. We don't know if the game will be online, but we do know that it will be multi player.

I would expect the big bucks and big guns to be firing on this one. EA tend not to invest in things by halves, so I would expect as much interactivity as possible and varying games on both consoles. I'm particuarly interested in seeing how the DS microphone is used.

It's good to see EA making full use of the Wii's ability to play games differently. After all the hard work of the developers, the Wii could have flopped if nobody had caught the vision of making even multiformat games run using the Wii control methods of tilting and moving in 3D space.

We'll be asking EA to provide more information about this upcoming little excitement, and promise a preview and review as soon as possible.