Disney doing game about a super-dog

By Robert Purchese Published 20 June, 2008

Called Bolt, who's also in a film.

Disney is making a game about Bolt, who is a super-dog with laser beam eyes and a sonic boom bark.

He, along with owner Penny who is sneaky and hacks things, will have to travel to places like Russia and Italy while taking care of waves of baddies and uncovering evil plots.

Sounds rather fetching until you realise this is a movie tie-in for every platform but PSP. And not because we really wanted it on PSP.

You see, Bolt is also a film about a dog that stars in a telly show where he has super powers. But he gets accidentally shipped off to New York and has to embark on an adventure to get back to Hollywood, with only delusions of superpowers to accompany him. John Travolta does his voice.

Disney has Avalanche Software - not to be confused with Just Cause team Avalanche Studios - making the game, and plans to offer it alongside the film early next year.

IMDB reckons the big-screen version will be out on 13th February, 2009.

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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.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • mingster #1 4 years ago

    wow sounds great
    /pre-orders

  • systems #2 4 years ago

    A film and game released together? This is unheard of!

  • space_ace #3 4 years ago

    to be confused with Underdog (2007)?

  • J.C #4 4 years ago

    Another disney video game?

    /runs to toilet
    /vomits lots

  • Zomoniac #5 4 years ago

    But the last Disney summer shite CGI film tie-in game was actually really good. Meet The Robinsons is one of the best kid games in recent years, I very much enjoyed it.

  • louyfitz #6 4 years ago

    FFS!

    The industry will never move forward while developers are wasting time with this sort of thing.

    Two words: Grow Up

  • Redeye #7 4 years ago

    Ah, but there be dollars in them thar games, especially where the wee ones are concerned (and especially with ultra-paranoid parents/grandparents not wanting their little darlings to end up in front of a potential gorefest).

    Disney games = kerching. Might not be your bag, but they're certainly someone's.

    (And edited for not being able to type a coherent sentence today...duh.)
    Edited by 1 at 20/06/08 @ 14:36

  • gallow #8 4 years ago

    Digby would still kick its ass.

  • monkie_king #9 4 years ago

    Is this what Warren Spector is working on? =D

  • jellyhead #10 4 years ago

    There was a podcast interview with Will Wright i think and he said that when he was in his Kids Games phase they were doing ok but they released a Dora the Explorer game and it stunned them how it's sales dwarfed their other titles. Yup, there's money in licensed shovelware it's just a shame so few devs it seems are putting the money into big original titles.

    Spector, ha ha ha ha. I still have respect for his achievements but his blog tirade against big games is so obviously meant to hype his new products so for me has little relevance to the real world, it's just marketing speak wrapped up in the stylings of reason.
    Disney "Little Games" Spectorlol :)

    What's the chances of his next game having his dog in it? :)
    Edited by 1 at 20/06/08 @ 15:29

  • louyfitz #11 4 years ago

    Gorefests brought me up well tho :)

    years of Doom, Quake and GTA have made me the person I am today, a happy person at that.

    When will parents learn that although it looks horrid to them, kids taking their anger out on virtual people (or demons on Mars) decreases the chance of a violent outbreak in the real world. At least thats what it does for me anyway.