Capcom unveils Peanuts game. Good grief!

You may be surprised to learn that there isn't already a hefty catalog of dubiously playable games available on iPhone based on Peanuts, Charles M. Schultz' beloved comic strip about existential malaise and pumpkins. However, Beeline %26ndash; the social-gaming subdivision Capcom uses when it wants to make some fat loot off smartphone microtransactions without offending the hardcore sensibilities of longtime Street Fighter/Megaman/Duck Tales devotees %26ndash; is set to rectify that, making your awareness of the previous sentence's information as useless as your repeated attempts to talk to that little red-haired girl.

Capcom's Beeline has revealed a partnership with Peanuts Worldwide LLC, the company responsible for ensuring that a comic strip about a bald kid whose life is shit will never lose its relevance. The partnership will lead to a series of globally-available social games themed around Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the philosophically-dysfunctional crew. The first in the series has a working title of %26ldquo;Snoopy,%26rdquo; suggesting that the title %26ndash; as the vast majority of Peanuts licenses throughout history have done %26ndash; will focus on the strip's pathologically delusional beagle, Snoopy, rather than the nominal protagonist, world-weary Charlie Brown.