Xbox.com Europe are hosting a Piñata Hunt, tying in with the release of the next game in the Viva Piñata series, Trouble in Paradise. The hunt starts this Friday with 25 Piñatas to collect.

All you need to do is check out Xbox.com Europe and look for hidden Piñata egg icons around the site. When you find one, click on it to open up a Piñata card to print out. Using a LIVE Vision camera, you can snap a picture of the card - either on-screen or from your print-out. Thanks to a new ability in the game, Piñata Vision, the Piñata you snapped with your Vision camera will appear in your garden while playing Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise! How cool!

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise releases across Europe this Friday, the 5th of September. Happy hunting, Piñata fans.

Microsoft has announced that Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise will be released exclusively on the Xbox 360 on the 5th of September.

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise features over 30 additional new Piñatas species as well as expanded co-operative options, various difficulty settings and numerous game play modes. The game will allow players to explore wild areas outside the garden where they can attempt to attract exotic Piñatas.

Whether it be the cold of the Pinartic to discover Pengums and Polollybears or the heat of the Dessert Desert to find Camellos and Jameleons, players will need to bait and retrieve these Piñatas as they will not come willingly into your garden. Once they are in your garden simply add snow or sand patches to make them feel at home.

For more information why not read our previous coverage.

The boxart for Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise surfaced today.

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is scheduled to be released exclusively for the Xbox 360 this September.

Developed by the original Rare team behind Viva Piñata, Trouble in Paradise challenges players to build and maintain piñata gardens by attracting, protecting and managing over 100 different piñata species.

The game includes cooperative and online game play modes as well as 32 new species of piñata and a new feature known as the Xbox Live Vision camera.

For more information on Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise head over to our previous coverage.

Microsoft has released a new trailer for Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, due out exclusively for the Xbox 360 this September.

More realms mean more piñatas, and more piñatas means more candy

Developed by the original Rare team behind Viva Piñata, Trouble in Paradise sees players building and maintaining piñata gardens by attracting, protecting and managing over 100 different piñata species.

The game will feature cooperative and online game play modes as well as 32 new species of Piñata and a new feature known as Piñata Vision.

For more information and screenshots head over to our previous coverage, Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise revealed.

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise will be released exclusively for the Xbox 360 this September.

Developed by the original Rare team behind Viva Piñata, Trouble in Paradise sees Piñata Island falling prey to Professor Pester who has wiped out Piñata Central’s computer records (how many times can you use the word piñata in one sentence?).

To rebuild the computer database players will need to send piñatas “at full candiosity” around the world. In addition players will need to build and maintain piñata gardens by attracting, protecting and managing over 100 different piñata species.

Online game play mode

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise will feature cooperative and online game play modes. By plugging in a second controller, the second player will be able to use all tools, actions and activities as well as collect magic by helping. The second player will also be able to heal sick piñatas, fill a piñata candiosity meter and tinker with items by spending magic.

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