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CBS bringing Diagnosis Murder, some other stuff to gaming platforms

November 4th, 2009 at 06:00am Under Xbox 360

CBS announced today that it’s bringing a wide array of its TV programming to the video game world, mainly via the PC, Wii and DS. As you can see after the break, the company revealed equally insipid-sounding game versions of Survivor, Hollywood Squares, The Amazing Race, and Criminal Minds, but we don’t see how we’re supposed to care about any of it when it was also revealed that a Diagnosis Murder game is in the works.

We’re assuming it’s a Visceral-developed “dark” take on the DM mythos, with a Gothic Dr. Mark Sloan walking a demonic version of Los Angeles, solving murder mysteries with a caduceus-shaped staff dipped in angel blood. We assume this because we laid out the design doc pretty clearly in our letters, and we can’t fathom why CBS would want to disappoint us.

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Where’s Waldo? On Wii, DS, PC, and Mac this September

July 16th, 2009 at 03:00pm Under DS

Finally, for those of us waiting since 1992’s The Great Waldo Search for a new console Waldo-finding adventure, Ubisoft has released the first details and screens of Ludia’s Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey, coming out on Wii, DS, PC, and Mac in September. iPhone, originally announced as one of the platforms, is conspicuously absent from the list.

The Fantastic Journey allows one or more players to search not just for Waldo, but for his friends and other items. The multiplayer mode features power-ups that shake opponents’ screens or cover them in paint, freeze the search window, or enhance items on your own screen.

The first screens, available in our gallery, show the Wii version. We have to wonder at whom these are targeted: kids aren’t going to remember, or even know, Where’s Waldo, and the concept of just looking for a guy in a picture is kind of laughable now that the fad is over. Does that mean that this is intended to serve adults’ Where’s Waldo nostalgia? Is there such a thing?

Where’s Waldo? On Wii, DS, PC, and Mac this September originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.