Spielberg Wii game coming in May

By Robert Purchese Published 6 February, 2008

Boom Blox. Contains mini-games.

The codenamed "PQRS" Wii puzzle title Steven Spielberg has been helping EA with has been officially unveiled. They've been planning this for a million years. We're beat to sh*t.

It's called Boom Blox, will be available in May, and is unsurprisingly made up of child friendly mini-games where you solve puzzles by using the Wiimote in quirky ways.

There are block-laying chickens and baseball-throwing monkeys to play around with, in a choice of Tiki, Medieval, Frontier and Haunted environments. Anne Lively, where is Anne Lively?

You can play it alone, co-operatively, or against your children if you want to win. You can even as make your own conundrums in Create Mode and share them over the WiiConnect24 Channel.

"I am a gamer myself, and I really wanted to create a video game that I could play with my kids," said Steven Spielberg riding a velociraptor. "Boom Blox features an enormous amount of fun challenges and cool scenarios for your kids to solve or for you to master together."

Let's hope his action-adventure game for 360 and PS3 proves a little more exciting, as this sounds about as good as A.I. with that little robot boy who had girls' hair.

Pop over to our Boom Blox gallery for the first shots.

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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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  • myiagros #1 4 years ago

    great yet another wii mini games collection ;-(

  • LOLLERS #2 4 years ago

    "...child friendly mini-games where you solve puzzles by using the Wiimote in quirky ways. There are block-laying chickens and baseball-throwing monkeys to play around with, in a choice of Tiki, Medieval, Frontier and Haunted environments. "


    No other designer in the whole of the games industry could possibly have come up with these ideas. Thanks Steven Spielberg!

    Are you sure it's not called Steven Spielbergs Boom Blox?
    Edited by 1 at 06/02/08 @ 15:06

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #3 4 years ago

    I can see where they've used his talent on this one. It's cinematic.
    Edited by 1 at 06/02/08 @ 15:07

  • bdc #4 4 years ago

    Ahahahahahah.

  • the_dudefather #5 4 years ago

    I was hoping for something like 'the Dig' again D:

  • Psiloc #6 4 years ago

    Why doesn't he just buy a game he can play with his kids?

    Twat.

  • Triggerhappytel #7 4 years ago

    Yeah, it's a good thing they had a legendary director like Speilberg on board, otherwise how could Boom Blox have had such a cinematic and epic feel.

    EA and Speilberg - driving gaming forward.

  • AcidSnake #8 4 years ago

    No other designer in the whole of the games industry could possibly have come up with these ideas. Thanks Steven Spielberg!

    Just wait for the sequel! Ice and fire themes ahoy!

  • CallousB #9 4 years ago

    I'm not sure where Eurogamer are getting the idea it's a "mini game" collection. It's no more a mini-game collection than Lemmings or Tetris is as far as I'm aware. It's a puzzle game with lots of levels, different themes and an editor.

  • Kelduum #10 4 years ago

    ... Tiki, Medieval, Frontier and Haunted environments.

    Oooh, Crystal Maze Wii game ahoy! Actually, thats not a bad idea.

    I would imagine Richard O'Brien would be pretty cheap to hire, too...

  • barnard666 #11 4 years ago

    brilliant, I'll have it....I have just spent the day brain storming for wii party games too. I love bandwagons, and jumping on them.

  • Eighthours #12 4 years ago

    Quick, to the Ellie-mobile!

  • skillian #13 4 years ago

    I thought the game was actually called BOOM BLOX? Apparently the Caps Lock buttons of EA's creative department suffer from the same faults as that of my 12 year old niece.

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #14 4 years ago

    I am anti upper-case titles. Apart from SEGA. But even that is silly. Tom will probably make me change it. He wields the pants around here now.

  • smelly #15 4 years ago

    Mini games.. joy.. just what the wii needs.

  • Stonker #16 4 years ago

    I'm so not excited about this game that i've actually popped an inverted boner.

    Go figure.

  • skillian #17 4 years ago

    I am anti upper-case titles. Apart from SEGA. But even that is silly. Tom will probably make me change it. He wields the pants around here now.

    Good on you Bertie, I agree. Smash the system, fight the power.
    Edited by 1 at 06/02/08 @ 17:14

  • neilka #18 4 years ago

    Boom Blollox

  • swisstony #19 4 years ago

    Spielberg makes a game he wants to play with his kids. Aimed at kids. Not wizened gaming online forum users most of whom are 'in the industry' and therefore for some reason I can't fathom heavily cynical by default.

    Like lots of low metacritic Wii games, and some high metacritic ones too admittedly, kids play these games and parents buy them, and it would appear to have very little to do with the demographic represented here.

    Still, we're all just expressing an opinion :) I'll wait to play it before i decide if it's blollox or get a boner inverted or not. Is that old fashioned?

  • Santino #20 4 years ago

    "Oooh, Crystal Maze Wii game ahoy! Actually, thats not a bad idea."

    Zack & Wiki is already on shelves.

  • Grayvern #21 4 years ago

    Lucas' licensing people and TT have beaten him why doesn't he just go out and buy Lego Star wars the complete saga.
    Edited by 1 at 07/02/08 @ 16:07

  • Eighthours #22 4 years ago

    I assume that we're all eating our words, now that this has turned out to be good? :)