Epic Mickey officially announced
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WARREN SPECTOR REVISITS A CARTOON ICON’S LEGACY IN DISNEY EPIC MICKEY
Mickey Mouse Makes His WiiTM Debut Alongside Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney’s First Cartoon Star
BURBANK, Calif. – (October 28, 2009) – Disney Interactive Studios today announced the development of Disney Epic Mickey, an adventure-platforming game with light role-playing elements for the Wii™ home video game console. The game stars Mickey Mouse who has been re-imagined for videogames by luminary game designer Warren Spector and his Junction Point game development studio. In Disney Epic Mickey, Spector, a life-long Disney fan, taps into Mickey Mouse’s rich history along with the characters and worlds brought to life by Walt Disney to create an edgy and unexpected cartoon adventure.
“Mickey is an adventurous and rambunctious mouse,” said Warren Spector, creative director and vice president, Junction Point. “I want to bring his personality to the forefront, place him in a daunting world and connect his spirited character with video game players worldwide. Ultimately, each player decides for him- or herself what makes Mickey cool.”
These scores come from issue #43 of the Swedish magazine LEVEL…
Tekken 6 – 9, 9
Brütal Legend – 8, 10
Aion – 7
Forza Motorsport 3 – 8
Machinarium – 9
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time – 7
Football Manager 2010 – 9
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising – 7
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days – 7
Borderlands – 6 JM (Johan Martinsson), 7
Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story – 9
Super KO Boxing 2 – 6
You, Me & The Cubes – 6
Champions Online – 6
Gridrunner Revolution – 8
NHL 2K10 – 5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up – 5
Lucidity – 6
Dungeon Hunter – 6
Drift Mania – 8
Media Create software sales (10/19 – 10/25)
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1. [DS] Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver – 118,000 / 2,756,000
2. [WII] Wii Fit Plus – 88,000 / 699,000
3. [DS] Tomodachi Collection – 52,000 / 1,466,000
4. [DS] Inazuma Eleven 2 Fire/Blizzard – 49,000 / 486,000
5. [DS] Rune Factory 3 – 41,000 / NEW
6. [360] Forza Motorsport 3 – 32,000 / NEW
7. [PS3] FIFA 10 – 20,000 / NEW
8. [WII] Wii Sports Resort – 19,000 / 1,319,000
9. [PS3] Uncharted 2 – 18,000 / 72,000
10. [PSP] Shin Sangoku Musou 5 Special – 18,000 / NEW
Epic Mickey audio tour with Warren Spector
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I don’t know what’s going on with Game Informer’s video embedding, but they never seem to work. Anyway, you can watch the video here
Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4 screenshots
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More talk of Nintendo tinkering with Netflix
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Some of you may have heard the news earlier this week that the PlayStation 3 will soon be receiving Netflix support. And of course, there have been plenty of rumors in recent months that the Wii will make use of the service as well.
Well, apparently Netflix is currently being tested out on the Wii. At one point, Nintendo was rumored to be launching the service this year. While that may still be the case, some say that Netflix may be held off until the launch of the Wii HD or the next Nintendo console.
Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth videos
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Epic Mickey news roundup – Game was for PC/PS3/360 originally, MotionPlus talk more
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All of the following information comes from Warren Spector…
“The reality is that we started Wii development in 2008, but before that we were a PC, PS3, and 360 title. It’s burned in my brain – Graham Hopper [Disney Interactive boss] pulled me into my office one day and said ‘What does it take to deliver on the goals we have for this product? And I said, well, you need enough time and enough money to be competitive. And it’d be awfully nice if we could focus on one platform. At that time we were talking about a Wii port and I was begging people – no, we can’t just port to the Wii, it’s not going to work. It needs to be its own game. A lot of the design ideas just won’t work on the Wii, we need to give the Wii its dues. Graham looked at me and said ‘What do you think about a Wii exclusive?’ And I went ‘Holy cow – yeah!’ They walked away from three other platforms – no other publisher on the planet would have done that. It was a magic moment for me. No-one has even mentioned other formats since that point.
“I think a lot of people missed the boat with Wii. I think a lot of people are enamoured with going ‘ooooh look shaders’. They like the idea of doing in real time what Pixar does with pre-rendered CGI. I guess it’s kind of natural that everyone always goes for the flashiest, glitziest, biggest hard drive sort of thing. But for me, I don’t know – I just look at Mario and Zelda and go to my friends: ‘where are the best games?’ Being able to focus on gameplay over flashy graphics is kinda nice – almost like the good old days of development. I mean that in an entirely positive way.”
“This is a labour of love for me. I’ve always been a Disney fan and I love Mickey – I love the character. It’s pretty obvious to anybody that looks at the character today in broad strokes what we need to do to bring him back to the top of the cartoon heap. In literally my first talks with Disney when they laid out their hopes for the project, we wanted to bring Mickey back to the world – to a whole new audience that doesn’t know him as a hero. And we want to bring him to gamers and make him a hero that they want to be.”
“We played with it [MotionPlus] and I think that it would be a great fit for our core mechanic, but the best I can say is that in the future we’d love to do more with it.
