Be The Biggest Loser

THQ has released The Biggest Loser fitness video game for Wii and Nintendo DSi/Nintendo DS. The game will also be made available in the UK and Australia over the coming months. The fitness game based on the popular NBC weight loss reality show featuring rotund people losing their girth offers more than 90 exercises and the expertise of trainer Bob Harper, as well as Jillian Michaels, from the television show. You can’t lose with this game. Wait, maybe you can lose a little.

The Biggest Loser video game is rated E for everyone and is available for the suggested retail prices of $39.99 on Wii and $29.99 on Nintendo DSi/DS.

Warner Bros. secures rights to The Bachelor, Bachelorette

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Ludia have signed a deal to create and distribute video games based on the reality TV dating shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, from Warner Horizon Television and created by Mike Fleiss. The worldwide licensing and distribution arrangement will launch the video games across multiple platforms following the conclusion of The Bachelor’s 14th season in 2010 on the ABC Television Network.

The Bachelor and The Bachelorette video games will be distributed in retail by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and in digital formats by Ludia. Created by Mike Fleiss (who also created More to Love and There Goes the Neighborhood), The Bachelor and The Bachelorette television series are produced by Next Entertainment in association with Warner Horizon Television. For both series, Fleiss and Martin Hilton are the executive producers, and Chris Harrison is the host.

Yes Ludia, thank-you for ruining Monday night television for me.

Three new Discovery channel games in 2009, 2010

Discovery Communications has signed multiple licensing deals that will see two popular shows on the Discovery Channel turned into mobile phone games. Built for mobile, PC and console gaming platforms, games based on the popular Deadliest Catch and Cash Cab and a Discovery Channel-branded trivia game will debut between June 2009 and holiday 2010.

Capcom will develop a video game based on the popular trivia reality show, Cash Cab,. On the show and in the game, unsuspecting faires take a cab and find themselves being asked trivia questions with the chance of winning cold hard cash. Winners get some money, but losers get tossed to the sidewalks of New York city (tthough not in ther literal sense). The game is set for release in June for mobile phone games and iPhone.

The Deadliest Catch Mobile game, developed by Hands-On Mobile charcges players with charting their ship’s course in and around Dutch Harbor, Alaska using one of the boats and crews from the series to try their hand at filling their crab holds and become the winning boat in the fleet.

Finally there’s Discovery Channel Trivia, a PC and next-generation console game that challenges players to test their knowledge of the Discovery channel’s top shows. The game, which will feature questions based on facts from Discovery Channel programs, will launch holiday 2010. It is being developed by Slitherine Software, who already does a lot of simulation work for the network’s various programs.