Telltale today announced that its highly-anticipated episodic series, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, will lead the company's expansion to Xbox LIVE Arcade this spring. Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures will also be available for PC.
Telltale Games has just released the first in-game screenshots for their upcoming new series: Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures. The game series will be coming out in 2009 and follows the adventures of Aardman Animation's award-winning franchise.
Aardman Animation's duo Wallace & Gromit are to return in a series of gaming episodes for PC and WiiWare.
Disney Pixar's Wall-E drummed up box office success and big critical acclaim, but the THQ-published game has been struggling at retail.
Middle-East website Al Bawaba reports that Disney Pixar's Wall-E will be the first Arab localized video game. Luke Keighran, THQ Export Sales Manager said:
THQ announced today that it has shipped WALL-E for every current viable platform, including Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, DS, Windows, and even Mac and mobile phones. In all, the game based on the Pixar movie will be released in over 69 countries in the coming months.
Ars Technica reports: "WALL-E, aside from probably being the biggest family movie of the year, is also making waves in the video game industry by being the first localized video game to hit the current generation of consoles in the Middle East. THQ and Pluto Games revealed that the movie's tie-in game will actually have versions released in Arabic in an effort to appeal to gamers around the region."
THQ President Brian Farrell has cited Nintendo's successful first-party software as the reason their kids' portfolio did not meet expectations last quarter.
In a Q4 earnings call, Farrell said that Nintendo had made the kids' videogames market "extremely competitive" and that was why THQ's "traditionally strong kids' business did not meet expectations," according to casualgaming.biz.
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AGOURA HILLS, Calif., Jan 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) THQ today announced plans to release the WALL/E video game in conjunction with the film's eagerly awaited theatrical debut from Disney/Pixar in the summer of 2008. WALL/E is anticipated to launch across all major gaming systems including the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Playstation 3 computer entertainment system, Playstation 2 computer entertainment system, PSP system, Wii home video game system, Nintendo DS, Windows PC and Mac, as well as wireless devices.
Split-Screen: "With the recent closure of GRIN, developers of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for PC and Capcom's Bionic Commando, many assets and revelations have come to light. Another one to recently come up are questions regarding the other cancelled project 'Cult'. It seems the game was none other than to this year's Wanted: Weapons of Fate, the 'not-quite-bad-not-quite-good-whatever' multi-platform action title based on that film about bending bullets (and logic)."