Brash Entertainment has announced today it’s doing the Tale of Despereaux video game for Xbox 360, PS2 and Wii, set to release alongside the film on December 19th. The movie and the game are both based on an an award-winning book by Kate Dicamillo — would that make this the first video game yet tied into a Newbery Award-winner?
I saw this game when I visited Brash in New York a little while ago — the build I saw was very early, and being unfamiliar with the film, I couldn’t tell how well it captured the aesthetic, but it did look cute, showing some scenes of a tiny little mouse whose friend was unhappy with his distinct un-mousiness. Despereaux isn’t really interested in scurrying around and chewing things up — he kind of just wants to save a human princess. Aw.
Definitely a kids’ title, though. It’s still interesting to see how cross-media proliferates, a game from a movie from a novel. Full announcement and screens after the jump.
