Jenny McCarthy covering Ubisoft exercise game

Former Playboy playmate now cover girl for camera-enabled exercise game, due out this holiday season.

Ex-television host and actress Jenny McCarthy is no stranger to games, having appeared in last year's Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. Now, the former Playboy playmate is once again being called upon to flaunt her physical attributes in Your Shape, the upcoming workout game Ubisoft announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Jenny McCarthy wants to get sweaty with you.

Due out this holiday season, Your Shape is going after the same 30-something female demographic that the best-selling Wii Sports Active targeted. However, rather than using resistance bands or a Wii Nunchuck strap, the game will use a camera peripheral reminiscent of Microsoft's Project Natal, albeit much simpler. The camera will scan players' bodies and let them select which part they can focus on and will then assess their progress by tracking their motions via the pack-in camera. No price for the game has been announced.

While selecting a 1990s pinup to appeal to 30-something women in 2009 might seem a strange choice, it doesn't seem to faze McCarthy, who mentions the fact that she is a working mother herself in the video below. The former Singled Out host will appear in the game as a player's coach, egging them on to work out harder and praising them when they achieve fitness goals.

40 Comments

  • BloodMist

    Posted Aug 17, 2009 6:19 pm PT

    Coulda picked a hotter chick.

  • smbius

    Posted Aug 17, 2009 8:39 am PT

    @rottenwood - you have good memory. I remember Jenny McCarthy on Singled-out as well. She was definitely one of the poster girls during the mid to late-90's.

  • beardmoen

    Posted Aug 17, 2009 7:09 am PT

    They could have at least showed her working out in a bikini.

  • Dimebag_Darrell

    Posted Aug 17, 2009 12:54 am PT

    It's just too bad she didn't get this role BEFORE she ruined Red Alert 3. Gina Carano woulda been way better as Tanya...

  • gameking5000

    Posted Aug 16, 2009 11:11 pm PT

    Boy Wii FIt did revolutionise the fitness genre of games

  • Triton

    Posted Aug 16, 2009 7:21 am PT

    She was ok and hot when we were in the 80 's, but now just a has been. Wonder if the game includes burping and farting...Nice cover girl ya have chosen.

  • FarmFreshDX

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 7:18 pm PT

    I don't get all these people saying how hot/sexy/OMGWTFWANTTOHAVE she is. She looks like if she had any more botox, she'd cave in.

  • Glade_Gnarr

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 6:25 pm PT

    I bet it's going to be a half ass 3d rendering, I wish it was like those interactive porn movies, then maybe I would buy it.

  • Rottenwood

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 3:38 pm PT

    Jenny McCarthy was an unstoppable force when I was in college; every guy's room had a poster of her somewhere. Seeing her as a 'working mother' with a reasonably tasteful product, as opposed to a half-naked jiggle-bomb on 'Singled Out,' makes me feel really old.

    Well, Daisy Fuentes and Jenny have both made the MTV Babe-to-Jazzercise transition. Can Serena Altschul be far behind?

  • flawless_blade

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 2:57 pm PT

    if i were tamir, id want her to by my mom too.

  • KoruKinshi

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 1:53 pm PT

    I'm sure you would, Tamir.

  • thorsen-ink GameSpot staff member

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 12:07 pm PT

    @BlueFlameBat No that was an honest mistake (or a unconscious freudian slip). Fixed.

  • KoruKinshi

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 10:51 am PT

    I could think of some exercises I'd want to do...

  • jjjrrr11211

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 10:49 am PT

    Porn Star On The Wii Yes!! Now I Really Love My Wii.lol

  • Extreme124

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 8:58 am PT

    lol

  • Generic_Dude

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 7:31 am PT

    Studies seem to indicate there's no link between autism and the vaccinations children receive, but nonetheless it's worth exploring. Back in Ancient China, they used to give people mercury for their ailments... what would've happened if they didn't go back and examine THAT practice to make sure it wasn't harmful? lol.

    I guess what I'm saying is just lay off the lady, alright?

  • BlueFlameBat

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 6:34 am PT

    It's spelled assess, not asses. I'm very disappointed in you, Tor Thorsen. I think you did that on purpose.

  • Joesocwork

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 3:33 am PT

    peterphillips's agenda or Jenny McCarthy's agenda? As a game player I could care less about what a Hollywood celeb believes or endorses. (Or her resume and anatomy for that matter! ) But as a parent and as a parent of an autistic child, her actions may or may not be understandable, but they certainly give many of us the creeps.

  • mad0260

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 2:52 am PT

    crazy antivaxer.

  • pwnzord

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 2:28 am PT

    @ peterphillips73

    Peddle your agenda elsewhere pal.

  • peterphillips73

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 1:43 am PT

    please check out www.jennymccarthybodycount.com

    this woman's dismissal of evidence based science and false znti vaccine information causes real harm.

  • Tzap

    Posted Aug 15, 2009 12:01 am PT

    Who cares about the game, give me some more Jenny!

  • mjc0961

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 11:47 pm PT

    Must buy immediately. *eye roll*

  • monson21502

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 11:41 pm PT

    getting old+ a trashy past= ewwwww

  • itsTolkien_time

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 10:58 pm PT

    she's the covergirl?! Good god...
    Come on, its just Wii fit and the active game without a board.
    I hope no one will own all three of those games.

  • Inconnux

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 9:59 pm PT

    should sell well...

  • Joesocwork

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 8:47 pm PT

    For clarification, she's more than a former Playmate. She is currently controversial as a parent of an autistic child who advocates against vaccinations that are federally mandated that she believes might cause autism.

  • nickythenewt21

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 8:27 pm PT

    Good God...a Playmate is on the cover of a Wii game that uses a camera for exercising?!?!

    The amount of sexual jokes is infinite.

  • shamarke

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 8:24 pm PT

    Shes hot!

  • Vari3ty

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 8:20 pm PT

    She's a parent? Her kids are going to be in for it once they reach high school.

  • RoganDerrick

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 7:28 pm PT

    Dear God.

    It's her.

  • Zloth2

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 7:14 pm PT

    "While selecting a 1990s pinup to appeal to 30-something women in 2009 might seem a strange choice..."

    I should say so.

  • sgrmbagamespot

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 7:03 pm PT

    Ubisoft invented the camera based on their E3 comments. It is a buy for me as I hope that any fitness game mocks me as it sits there to the degree that I feel compelled to actually get off the couch. Hope springs eternal.

  • X-Remnant posted Aug 14, 2009 6:48 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    X-Remnant

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 6:48 pm PT (hide)

    But she's so ugly. ._.

  • Joesocwork

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 6:32 pm PT

    Sounds innovative. The choice of Jenny McCarthy with her background and some of her unorthodox parenting viewpoints could be a distraction though.

  • masterman280

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 5:46 pm PT

    did nintendo developed the carmera or ubisoft?

  • mrklorox posted Aug 14, 2009 5:44 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    mrklorox

    Posted Aug 14, 2009 5:44 pm PT (hide)

    Me hates fake teets.

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