‘Tis the season. Ubisoft Entertainment has uploaded the above video as their seasons greetings to us all. Sure, it’s somewhat of a promotion for their Wii/DS game, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party, but it’s all in good, holiday fun. Enjoy!

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Ever since the revealing of Nintendo’s full motion add-on at E3, developers have not been shy about speaking their minds about being left in the dark. Lucas Arts, in particular, with the release of The Force Unleashed could have made amazing use of the peripheral. Now, however, that seems it may not have been the case with all companies. Ubisoft seems to have known, as they mentioned in an interview with GameDaily.

[In regards to WiiMotion Plus] Nintendo has been working on that for a long time, trying to see how they could improve the precision. We knew for a long time they were working on that, so it’s not a big surprise for us. We’ll start seeing something in September/October. We already have games that can take advantage of it.

Good news for gamers, worse news for Lucas Arts. Before I thought the complaining was a little over the top, now I just feel bad for them. Full interview after the break.

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Ever wanted your art appearing in a video game? Normally, that’s called advertising and it costs money. For you poor folk out there like me, Ubisoft’s letting you put your artistic talents to work and design boards for the upcoming Shaun White Snowboarding game.

You’ve got from now until mid-October to submit your board designs to Ubisoft’s Art of the Ride site, where two winners every other week will get their snowboards included in the final game. All winners will receive prizes such as Wii consoles, and one will even have their design turned into an actual snowboard.

Be sure to head on over to the site to check out the existing winners and vote on the current entries!

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