What with the new series of Doctor Who taking over Saturday evenings, the long-promised release of Doctor Who Top Trumps would now seem to be a well planned marketing scheme on publisher Eidos' behalf.
Keen to find out more about a game that's not yet been blessed with an official press release, Pocket Gamer got onto Eidos' hardworking assistant producer, George Wright (who you might remembered from last week's Gauntlet interview) to get the lowdown.
Following the announcement that the highly anticipated Doctor Who: The Adventure Games series will be distributed as episodic content, with the first episode launching on 5th June 2010 and available for free, the BBC has created a new video in anticipation of the forthcoming release. Showing an interesting publicity stunt as well as the first in-game footage, the new video is a must-see for any Doctor Who fan.
Strategy Informer has revealed that the next episode of the Doctor Who: The Adventure Games series will feature the Cybermen in an arctic setting.
Details are slim at the moment, but we've also been told that episode 2 should be out three to four weeks after Doctor Who: City of the Daleks is released.
NowGamer: The BBC has announced that a sneak-peak of the Doctor Who game will follow the show on Saturday.
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games was announced earlier this month, and will be made available for free on PC and Mac. It's being developed by Sumo Digital, and overseen be adventure game legend, Charles Cecil. The footage will follow Saturday's episode 'Victory of the Daleks' which starts at 18.30 on BBC1, Saturday 17 April...
If it used David Tennant i would be more interested, but my interest in doctor who has pretty much vanished since he left.
well the new doctor actually does a good job as a doctor and the new staff had so far some pretty good ideas if you take in account the two episode released so far ..
This dr who game have 2 main challenges ..
It must have the feeling of a dr who episode
IT must be fun be fun to play ..
and that's not an easy ride ...
Don't sully Doctor Who's good name with a game on any system.
Sacrilege I tell you.
Tom Baker, I summon you to wreak your bescarved vengence upon these humans!