Cosmic Family for Wii

By Robert Purchese Published 17 January, 2007

Mini-games for kids.

Nintendo has yelled from the mountain tops time and time again that it wants the Wii to expand gaming. Mum, dad, brother, sister, girlfriend (a what?); it wants everyone.

Heading the call once more is Ubisoft, which has announced early learning title Cosmic Family for release in the middle of this year.

You are (or more likely your children are) invited aboard the Cosmic Family's rocket-house, where you can find 15 different mini-games to help improve memory, hand-eye coordination, creativity, and imagination.

"Cosmic Family is a great title for young Wii players and their families, with simple point-and-click controls that will be easy to learn and provide the freedom to navigate wherever players choose to go," reckons John Parkes, EMEA marketing director at Ubisoft. "Families will enjoy playing this game together, as it unfolds more like an interactive adventure than a traditional video game."

A game to help make your console one to fight over, yet with more mini-game titles than cerebral releases, perhaps you'll let the children win.

Have a butcher's at the latest screenshots here.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • MadMirko #1 5 years ago

    Thank god there are no children in my household, it's hard enough to wrestle the Wii from the wife.

  • Eraser #2 5 years ago

    cute :)

  • Psi #3 5 years ago

    contant wii with breaks for eastenders and big brother...

  • Blerk #4 5 years ago

    Edutainment and mini-games? Ubi, you are spoiling us!

  • rotj #5 5 years ago

    I LOVE mini/party games!!1!!11!! :D

  • BMXer #6 5 years ago

    Jetsons or Futurama theme would sell better methinks, not that it would make it a better game.

  • Wite_Noiz #7 5 years ago

    If they want my whole family to play, they need to steal the market from the poor interactive DVDs.

    We've got quite a few, and they're fun, but the compatibility and general bugginess make them unplayable in parts.

    If the Wii had some quiz games, betting (horse races, etc), and the like, I'd buy them in an instant.
    I'm more than happy enough with Zelda, Monkey Ball, et al, but I can't see my parents playing them ;)

  • Tomo #8 5 years ago

    15 minigames?! Rayman has 40+ doesn't it and Warioware 200ish?!

    Sounds pretty grim to me, but considering my mum struggled with much more beyond tennis, boxing and cow racing it might be truly simple enough for everyone?

  • chupachups #9 5 years ago

    "some quiz games"

    Great idea but I get the feeling Nintendo don't like doing anything that requires too much localisation, their games normally avoid any specific cultural references (except to other games).

  • Blerk #10 5 years ago

    If they want my whole family to play, they need to steal the market from the poor interactive DVDs.

    My son got one of these for Christmas from a relative. It's complete shite! Half of it won't even work on our DVD player, we can only play it on the PC. And the bits that do work are so slow and boring that he's lost interest before the game actually starts.