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Aladdin’s Genie to host Disney Th!nk Fast

Disney Interactive Studios and Magenta Software is going to be releasing a family quiz game for the Wii and PS2 for the 2008 holiday season. Disney Th!nk Fast is going to be a quiz game (like Buzz!) hosted by Aladdin‘s Genie. Like the Buzz!, the PS2 version will come with four buzzer controllers.

While Disney Th!nk Fast is billed as a quiz game, it will consist of both trivia questions and mini-games. Players will choose a Disney character as an avatar, then answer some of the game’s 5,000 questions in 15 rounds to see who really knows their Disney trivia. Also – to make the game playable for all ages, all multiple choice questions will have picture answers so no-one is left out.

Microsoft announces SceneIt for Xbox 360 and new controller

One of the more interesting announcements from last night’s (July 11, 2007) press conference and the first from Jeff Bell (corporate VP of global marketing) was the news that SceneIt?, the popular DVD trivia game, will be making an appearance on Xbox360. According to Bell the game is “being designed from the ground up” to run on Microsoft’s game console and it’ll also ship with a wireless, buzzer-like handheld.

Bell is no fool and he’s clearly concerned about …