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Every Saturday evening for the last ten weeks has seen The Doctor and Clara fight all sort of nasties. There’s been the half-faced man, the Daleks, the Robots of Sherwood, evil wall-painting things, a mummy, spiders on the moon, trees… And then, within 24 hours, gamers are given the chance …
Read More »BBC Doctor Who game designed to teach kids computer programming
A new free-to-play online Doctor Who game from the BBC hopes to bring the art of basic computer programming to kids. The Doctor and the Dalek will be available on the CBBC website from Wednesday (October 22nd) and is voiced by the 12th Doctor himself Peter Capaldi. The story has …
Read More »Dalek teaches children how to code in new Doctor Who game
Title will educate kids on aspects of new computing curriculum
Read More »Doctor Who: The Adventure Games materialise on Steam
The BBC has released its collection of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games on Steam. All five adventures – City of the Daleks, Blood of Cybermen, TARDIS, Shadows of the Vashta Nerada and The Gunpowder Plot – can currently be had on Valve’s service for 13.49, although that’s ten per cent …
Read More »VIDEO: David ‘Doctor Who’ Tennant is the voice of Kinect Sports Rivals
Former Timelord and Scottish thesp David Tennant has been revealed as the narrator of upcoming Xbox One title Kinect Sports Rivals. It’s the first game that the actor has done voice over work for, not least because the BBC’s Doctor Who video games drive arrived in the post-Tennant Matt Smith …
Read More »Doctor Who MMO runs out of regenerations
The free-to-play Doctor Who MMO is closing down. Yes, there was a free-to-play Doctor Who MMO. Doctor Who: Worlds in Time was announced in February 2011 and finally launched in March 2012. However, a message on the game’s website now confirms that it will cease operating on February 28th. Microtransactions …
Read More »Doctor Who: The Adventure Games writer penning Capaldi Who episode
The man who wrote the BBC’s free Doctor Who: The Adventure Series has been tasked with writing an episode for upcoming Doctor Who series starring Peter Capaldi. Phil Ford is writing the second of Capaldi’s episodes, which began filming yesterday and are expected to air later this year. This follows …
Read More »Doctor Who vs Puzzle & Dragons: How Legacy regenerates the GungHo formula
Develop speaks to Tiny Rebel Studios about how their iOS title will stand out from the Japanese smash hit and tie-in with future seasons of the hugely popular sci-fi show
Read More »Doctor Who: Legacy gets iOS and Android release date
Free-to-play puzzle RPG adventure Doctor Who: Legacy will be released on iOS and Android this Wednesday (November 27th). Details about the BBC Worldwide, Tiny Rebel Games and Seed Studio co-production remains reasonably scant, although it appears that it will be episodic. The game will launch with a raft of episodes …
Read More »Doctor Who takes over Google with 50th Anniversary game
It’s a moment fans have been waiting for for years, it’s dominated the media, the radio, the TV, press and the High Street all week. No, not Xbox One, but Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary. And now The Doctor has materialised on Google’s homepage in video game-form. The latest brilliant take-over …
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