New Doctor Who games for DS and Wii

By Ellie Gibson Published 25 August, 2010

He'll return to Earth this winter.

Two new Doctor Who games are on the way to Nintendo consoles.

The Wii version is titled Doctor Who: Return to Earth, while the DS game is called Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth. They're being developed by Asylum Entertainment - the studio behind the Peppa Pig and Horrid Henry games, plus the brilliant Sushi Go-Round (59p on iTunes).

Asylum is working with BBC Worldwide on the games and the story is being written in collaboration with the Doctor Who production team. By the sounds of things, you'll be able to play as both the Doctor and Amy.

Both games are due to arrive in the UK, Australia and selected European territories this winter.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Darren #1 2 years ago

    Doctor Who: Return to Earth?!? If the current series is anything to go by he rarely ever left it!!!

  • riceNpea #2 2 years ago

    they didn't say when it is being released, although seeing as it's a Doctor Who game they could finish it in a few months and it'll be in the shops next friday.

  • TheTingler #3 2 years ago

    After hiring Charles Cecil and the guys who made Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, I'd assumed the BBC were serious about making a decent Doctor Who game. Obviously I was wrong.

    Can't we swap these around? Make this the crappy rushed free product for their website and give the full-priced shop release with plenty of development time to the intelligent adventure game?

  • Irien #4 2 years ago

    Gotta wonder why they don't re-use some of the already-created assets from The Adventures and let Charles Cecil produce a "feature length" adventure with proper puzzles and stuff. Seems daft to get yet another studio involved (presumably with yet another engine / tech tree to get "right" for Who).

  • darth_paul #5 2 years ago

    outside of the UK, no one knows (or actually cares) for this franchise. why bother to release it in "select european countries"?

  • smelly #6 2 years ago

    >Peppa Pig and Horrid Henry


    Erm... umm.. er...

  • Bulbatron #7 2 years ago

    Finally get a Doctor Who game on consoles and it's for the fucking Wii and DS. Pff.