Disney has made the decision after more than 80 years to give Mickey Mouse a make-over in the video game space. By reinventing Mickey Mouse Disney hopes to increase the relevance of the character. The way he looks, talks and acts will all be transformed to create ‘a vintage-looking yet three-dimensional cartoon character.’ Mickey Mouse’s new image will be unveiled by Walt Disney Corporation for a new video game for Nintendo Wii. The game will expose Mickey Mouse’s more human and mischievous characteristics that he first possessed in his 1928 debut in “Steamboat Willie.” Disney Interactive Studios general manager, Graham Hopper, explains that ‘we were not treating Mickey properly in the video games space and that he had a lot more potential than we had unlocked.’ Game designer Warren Spector has removed Mickey Mouse from his cartoon world comfort zone and places him in a ‘Cartoon Wasteland’ where the ‘guilt-ridden’ character ‘roams the wasteland and faces up to friends he cast aside and eclipsed with his own fame.’

IMAGE CREDIT: Thank you to a Disney spokesman for sending this image of Mickey Mouse in his new video game.


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Thank you to Zoe Meskell for this story. This is Zoe’s final edit.

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