Activision to create Zhu Zhu Pets video game
16 Dec 2009 | by James Quilter
LONDON - Activision has signed a deal with Cepia to produce a Nintendo DS video game around its best-selling Zhu Zhu Pets (known in the UK as Go Go Pets) robotic hamsters.
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