Ubisoft bringing Cranium to the Wii @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on August 23, 2007

News: A real brain game hits the Wii this December.

Ubisoft has announced they will be bringing the popular board game Cranium to the Wii this December as Cranium Kabookii. The board game, which has won the Toy Industry Association T.O.T.Y. Game of the Year award five times will encourage players to "jam, draw, act, puzzle and even crack codes to win."

Cranium sets itself apart by creating award-winning games that celebrate natural talents connecting people through laughter and play," said Yves Guillemot, chief executive officer at Ubisoft. This kind of experience is exactly what we want to provide with our Games for Everyone line, and we are pleased to partner with Cranium, Inc., who for nearly a decade, has proven itself the experts in creating unique enduring experiences for friends and family."

Cranium Kabookii will bring the board game's game show-like mentality to the Wii with questions asking players to:

Spray paint the solar system on a wall (you actually hear the can shaking in your hand!)

Use the Wii Remote as a mallet to hammer out "Auld Lang Syne" on a xylophone

Solve word puzzles (what word is both a face card and car lifter?)

Trot the globe to test their knowledge of world flags, landmarks and national anthems.

The game will also come with a set of Kabookii Decoder Glasses, which will allow one players to view hidden clues on the screen.

Finally, specialized versions of Cranium Kabookii will be created with unique questions for many different countries including Canada, France, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

We'll have more on Cranium Kabookii soon.