Rub Rabbits hoped to help with baby-making

According to MTV News, the ladies behind Sega's Rub Rabbits (for the Nintendo DS) want players to make babies, er... love... through their new guy-seeks-girl game. (Whoa, now that's some multiplayer action!)

Romance-themed titles are, of course, nothing new, but it's still fairly unprecedented for teams at major game publishers to have many female members–though, having more than a few women developers working on the female-friendly Sims series constitutes a prominent exception.

What separates Rub Rabbits from its predecessor (Feel the Magic: XY/XX), however, are the multiplayer mini-games, which were designed to "help make a love connection" (or help reveal two persons' "compatibility as a couple") through wedding-cake-cutting teamwork and "accidental" physical contact (made while people play the game on a single DS). So... anyone make a love connection with someone over Mario Party 7 yet?

See also:

• Mario Party 7 to feature eight-player action
• You can be Smooth Snake with this valentine
• Is success in an online relationship grounds for marriage?
• The truth about gettin'
  down (or "couples multiplayer")
• Director Takumi Yoshinaga's Rub Rabbits blog on 1UP
• Glass ceiling for women in the games industry a myth?