The Idea Guy Blogeth... » wii http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog An Idealabs Interactive weblog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:42:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Disney’s Mighty Mouse http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/disneys-mighty-mouse/ http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/disneys-mighty-mouse/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:20:08 +0000 Idea Guy http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/?p=230 Warren Spector’s take on Mickey Mouse – Epic Mickey – is coming to the Wii…

Here’s the guru himself:

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Here’s two more games where at least one of the prior descriptions apply!

Chair Entertainment’s Shadow Complex for the Xbox 360:

Tomy’s Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 for the Nintendo Wii:

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Visually, the game has a very unique-looking art style – almost like it were hand-drawn:

Given the Wii’s target audience, Majesco – creators of the wonderfully superb, critically acclaimed (but commercially unsuccessful) Psychonauts – seem to have an ace up their sleeve with this game!

Apparently, the game is SO cute, that there’s even a button to hug your blob!

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Last week, at E3, Sony and Microsoft showed the world their pitch on the future of motion control.

Here are the two videos, for you to compare them head-to-head:

Sony’s magic wand:

Microsoft’s Project Natal:

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Ah! The fishing, the sailing, the fighting, the platforming, the story and the music… now that’s stuff worth reminiscing!

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