E308 | EA Confirms Sim Animal for Wii/DS

At EA's E3 Press Conference over in the US today, the company has confirmed Sim Animal is coming to Wii and DS in January 2009, just as revealed in the latest issue of NGamer magazine. The title has players taking control of an entire eco-system, playing the role of 'God' in the world, looking after various animals, abiding by the rules of various food chains and delving deeper into the world's forest as the game progresses. The game has already been likened Rare's Viva Pinata.

More details can be found in the latest issue of UK publication NGamer, but no doubt more will hit the web, along with the first ever screenshots, in the very near future...