Ubisoft to launch dog coaching game

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 11th September 2008
Comments (15) Stumble
This is Sugar, the official dog of the bit-tech.net offices and reviewer of all dog-based games.

This is Sugar, the official dog of the bit-tech.net offices and reviewer of all dog-based games.

Ubisoft has announced that it will be launching a new dog coaching game on the PC and DS based around the work of Cesar Milan, a prominent lecturer in the US and host of The Dog Whisperer TV show. Apparently.

My Dog Coach: Understand Your Dog with Cesar Millan will launch on the PC and Nintendo DS later this quarter and will prominently feature Cesar Millan, as well as theories taught in his books and seminars.

Cesar's approach places an emphasis on understanding dogs and how they behave in the wild, then replicating some of the pack mentality that dogs exhibit and exploiting it within the home by using rewards and punishments effectively.

The PC and DS game will present forty of the most common dog problems and instruct users on how to deal with them correctly.

Cesar says that the key to solving these issues is simple; "Exercise, discipline, and affection... in that order."

Honestly, we can perhaps see a game like this appealing to the casual DS crowd, but whether it will work so well for a PC crowd is a different matter - though maybe we'll give it a review and test the process out on Sugar, the official bit-tech.net dog.

Do you have a dog, or are you more of a cat person? Can you make a cool LOLDog out of this picture? Answer these questions and more, in the forums.
Quote DougEdey 11th September 2008, 10:51
Oh good god no.
Quote proxess 11th September 2008, 10:58
i once screwed my windows 98 install when i didn't have enough space for the game Pets. I didn't know what a PEECEE was back then. Maybe this will appeal to animal fans like Sims appeals to people who like to control others.
Quote Dreaming 11th September 2008, 10:59
Calm Assertive Energy guys.

Cesar Milan is a god.
Quote steveo_mcg 11th September 2008, 11:03
Can i borrow your dog pls....
Quote Jack_Pepsi 11th September 2008, 11:57
I think Sugar and my lil dog have been separated at birth...

http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lildogdl5.jpg

... his name is Lucky. As it was lucky we found him (he was dumped on the Bromyard Downs) and the Dog Warden couldn't get him so the only option was to destroy him. Again, it was lucky that my Mum was able to 'catch' him, it was more that he decided to come and live with us.

Fuggin' awesome lil dog!
Quote Yemerich 11th September 2008, 12:28
Yeah... it is as exciting as ant farm tycoon... :/
Quote Da_Rude_Baboon 11th September 2008, 13:22
Hmm... an all male environment and a yorkshire terrier? I'm begining to worry about you guys.
Quote Flibblebot 11th September 2008, 14:15
I don't know why you're so surprised - do you not remember those pictures of Harry on the bull thingy? That look on his face wasn't panic, it was ecstasy :D

Back on topic, this game'll probably be bought by the same kind of people who bought Petz for their DS or the Sims for their PC - not butch, hardcore gamers like us...
Quote sotu1 11th September 2008, 14:29
Quote:
Originally Posted by proxess
I didn't know what a PEECEE was back then.

...i thought it was a pea sea?
Quote Whalemeister 11th September 2008, 15:57
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yemerich
Yeah... it is as exciting as ant farm tycoon... :/

Now that sounds like an awesome game, running an ant farm!!! I can't wait for that one, when's the release date, where's the Bit-Tech Preview??!!!

I need more ant farm tycoon in my life
Quote TGImages 11th September 2008, 16:01
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt

Would it be a bad thing to admit I helped beta test this for them? :)
Quote pendragon 11th September 2008, 17:54
ha..cute dog :) .. i'm surprised at the lack of LOLDog photoshops though
Quote lamboman 11th September 2008, 18:49
OK, yeah, a TV program is alright, and Cesar Milan is a good dog trainer. But a game? Erm...no.
Quote Loom 15th September 2008, 01:09
Quote:
Originally Posted by TGImages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt

Would it be a bad thing to admit I helped beta test this for them? :)

;)
Quote benjamyn 15th September 2008, 01:55
Quote:
Originally Posted by pendragon
ha..cute dog :) .. i'm surprised at the lack of LOLDog photoshops though

Dogs generally don't seem to pose as much as cats. plus Dogs don't tend to lie on various things like pc cases, in boxes etc anywhere as much.
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