The BBC Press Office have announced a new, multi-player game is in development.

Entitled Doctor Who: Worlds in Time, the online game is being produced in partnership with games developer Three Rings, and is aimed to be "both highly engaging and fun, allowing players to socialize and foster genuine cooperation, building a global community where fans worldwide will now be able to experience first hand the exciting action and adventure synonymous with Doctor Who."


Robert Nashak, EVP Digital Entertainment at BBC Worldwide, said:

Daniel James, CEO Three Rings, said:

The game is announced ahead of the San Francisco Game Developers Conference, and is expected to launch later in the year.

You can keep up-to-date with the latest news on Worlds in Time by following BBC Worldwide Games on Twitter.

The BBC have put a trailer for the fourth Doctor Who Adventure Game, Shadow of the Vashta Nerada, up onto their official YouTube channel.



The game is available to download for free in the UK from the BBC Doctor Who website.

The BBC has released the fourth Episode in The Adventure Games Series: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada in the United Kingdom.

The game was expected on Christmas Day, but today has been made available to download from the BBC Website.

The game is written by Phil Ford - author of the first 'gamisode' in the series, City of the Daleks and is available in a Windows and a Mac version.

As with the previous games, Shadows of the Vashta Nerada will be available for purchase worldwide on the PC platform at a later date from Direct2Drive, who will release both this and the third game TARDIS together as a bundle; however, the Mac version will not be available outside the UK.

BBC Worldwide have announced that their new game for mobile platforms, The Mazes of Time, has now been released for Apple products. The game can be purchased from Apple's iTunes App Store for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.


Robert Nashak, Executive Vice President, Digital Entertainment, BBC Worldwide, said:
The game is also available as a high definition version, which has been released for the larger Apple device, the iPad. It has also been confirmed that the Android community won't miss out on the game either, with a version for the Google OS due to be released in 2011.

The Mazes of Time is one of several mobile games developed for BBC Worldwide (which also includes Top Gear and Teletubbies); the Doctor Who version was produced by Tag Games and written by Oli Smith, who also worked on the recent Nintendo games Evacuation Earth and Return to Earth.

The BBC have now released a few images from the next story in the their PC/Mac game series Doctor Who Adventures, Shadows of the Vashta Nerada:


The images form part of today's Adventure Calendar on the BBC's Doctor Who site; for Day 14 you can also download the Vashta Nerada as wallpaper (4:3 and 16:9 sizes), and a screensaver that showcases images from throughout the Doctor Who Adventures series.

As reported at the beginning of the month, the new game will be available for download (PC/Mac format) in the United Kingdom from the BBC's Doctor Who site on Christmas Day.

The BBC have announced the final game in the first series of the Doctor Who Adventure Games:


As one might expect from the title, the storyline will feature the return of the shadowy Vashta Nerada, previously 'seen' in the Moffat-penned episodes from Series Four, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead.

The game is written by Phil Ford - author of the first 'gamisode' in the series, City of the Daleks - and is due to be released in the UK on Christmas Day, where it will be possible to download for free from the BBC Doctor Who website for both PC and Mac platforms

As with the previous games, Shadows of the Vashta Nerada will be available for purchase worldwide on the PC platform at a later date from Direct2Drive, who will release both this and the third game TARDIS together as a bundle; however, the Mac version will not be available outside the UK.

As we reported in September, Season Two of The Adventure Games is expected to come out sometime next year, developed by the same team as with the current games.

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The news came as part of the BBC's 2010 Adventure Calendar, where you can also download festive wallpaper featuring the Doctor and Amy as part of Day Two in the run-down to Christmas.

BBC America have published the first video preview of Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time along with a press release on their Anglophenia blog.



You can follow news about The Mazes of Time on the Twitter feeds from BBC Worldwide Games (@BBCWGames) and Tag Games (@taggames)

A version of the mobile game The Mazes of Time is to come out for the popular Android operating system as well as the already reported Apple platforms, if an advert published by the game's author Oli Smith is accurate.

The author's article was posted on the 23rd November, a day before the official announcement, so the decision may have changed - though a link to the advert was posted today by Tag Games on their Twitter feed.

Oli Smith wrote of the game:

Last week games designer Tag Games announced that Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time will be launched in December for the Apple iPhone/iPod/iPad platforms. BBC Worldwide have now released a couple of screenshots to illustrate how the game will look:

Tag Games also reported the shots on their blog:
You can follow news about The Mazes of Time on the Twitter feeds from BBC Worldwide Games (@BBCWGames) and Tag Games (@taggames)

A new game is to be released for Apple's iphone/ipod/ipad for Christmas. The platforms will see mobile games designer Tag Games release The Mazes of Time, which will be available from Apple's iTunes store.

The game will enable the player to take on the role of either the Doctor or Amy, and engage in action puzzles in which the time travellers race to save a family that has been attacked by a rogue Dalek. It is aimed for players aged six upwards, and has been written by Oli Smith, who was also responsible for the recent Nintendo games Evacuation Earth and Return to Earth.

The Head of Games Technology, Robert Henning, said:
Doctor Richard Wilson, of games industry representatives TIGA, said:

Meanwhile, the existing Nintendo games have had mixed reviews, with the Wii version Return Earth reported by the Official Nintendo Magazine as failing to break the top ten games last weekend (it was number 11). Promotion for the titles is set to be cranked up in the lead-up to Christmas, with greater advertising on digital channels catering for children (e.g. CITV, Nickelodeon); a front-cover splash for Doctor Who Magazine has also been mentioned by promoters Koch Media.