Releasing these two screens, Hip Europe announced that England's Josh Lewsey, Wales's Shane Williams, Scotland's Chris Patterson and Ireland's Geordan Murphy have been signed to endorse the eagerly awaited Rugby Challenge 2006, which will be released this fall on PlayStation2, Xbox and PC. For the first time in many years the Northern Hemisphere Rugby nations are now on equal billing with their Southern Hemisphere counterparts and the competition for the top position has never been so close with even the minnows of the International scene coming up with shock results. Rugby Union has never been so competitive or so popular, even at club level.