Pelé, he of Brazilian football and impotence advert fame, is working with games publisher Ubisoft, on Academy Of Champions – a “rich, story-driven adventure” football game for the Nintendo Wii aimed at “kids and families”.
Showing off the sporting skills of robots has until now been confined to the mechanical meltdown that is robots pummeling seven bells out of each other and some fairly impressive footwork from football playing machines, now a company called Nuvation have created a machine that could be appearing at an amusement arcade near you soon.