TO celebrate the beginning of the 2009 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship, Oxygen Interactive are pleased to announce a partnership with award winning Developers Rebellion and Abdução to produce the forthcoming Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ versions Of PDC World Championship respectively.
PDC World Championship Darts 2009 completely rebuilds its Wii Remote throwing method, comes with greatly improved graphics, includes new game modes, new champions to challenge and will hit the shelves in the spring of 2009.
Jim Scott, CEO of Oxygen Games commented: "We have chosen to work closely with Rebellion because of their position as World Class Developers.
"Rebellion's history and credentials speak for themselves.
"We anticipate great new features and an enhanced gameplay experience for the latest in our chart topping franchise."
Jason Kingsley, CEO and Creative Director of Rebellion added: "Our studio is very pleased to be working alongside Oxygen Games, one of the UK's leading Independent Publishers.
"We feel we can bring our expertise to enhance the PDC World Championship Darts Franchise by refining controls, adding more real-world physics and of course providing the atmosphere, authenticity and emotion of a real, high-tension world class darts match."
PDC Chief Executive Matthew Porter: "We are very excited to be working again with Oxygen Games and developers Rebellion for the 2009 version of the most popular ever darts game.
"The previous versions of the game have performed so well because they capture the authentic mood and feel of the PDC'S Darts tournaments; and the new game promises to be even better!
"The video game is also a great way to get people of all ages into the fast growing sport of darts. We can't wait for the next version next year!"
With the highest quality graphics yet, PDC World Championship Darts will give game players and darts enthusiasts the closest experience yet to actually being there!
PDC World Championship Darts 2008 is currently available on Xbox®360, PSP®System, PC and Wii™
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