If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting, keep it casual!

Majesco Entertainment announced a partnership with Jillian Michaels, one of the trainers on the Biggest Loser television show, to create another fitness game for the Nintendo Wii. The fitness game will utilize the Wii remote and the Wii balance board. The game will be called Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2009. The game will combine game play, fitness regimen, advice and exercise techniques.

“I truly think this type of product will be instrumental in revolutionizing the fitness industry and will help combat the childhood obesity epidemic in this country,” Michaels said.

It is nice to see the Wii balance board is going to get other games that utilize the board, but I am still skeptical that the game will be strenuous enough to get your heart rate up enough to lose weight. One of the criticisms of Wii Fit was the game was not going to cause weight loss as it claimed. It is hard to think a video game will be a difficult enough to cause weight loss, but if anyone could achieve weight loss it could be Jillian. She knows a lot about exercising and dieting given she is a personal trainer. Guess we will have to wait and see.

Thanks Hollywood Reporter