Wallace & Gromit going digital
Based on the award-winning Aardman animation shorts and film, Telltale Games’ Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures will be the company’s first episodic gaming series for Xbox Live Arcade (and PCs) this spring.
Based on the award-winning Aardman animation shorts and film, Telltale Games' Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures will be the company's first episodic gaming series for Xbox Live Arcade (and PCs) this spring.
Players will assume the roles of both the quirky inventor and his faithful canine sidekick in a claymation world as they interact, assemble contraptions and find themselves in humorous situations. Pricing details are not yet available.
On a related note, digital distribution is also helping gamers share their own custom-made content with others over the Internet. Sony Computer Entertainment America's LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3, for example, is a quirky arcade puzzle game that ships with a built-in level editor. Sony says more than 348,000 levels have been published worldwide to date (less than three months since its launch), which have been played more than 44.5 million times collectively.