Whatever it is, it's Wallace's fault.

As previously noted, everyone's favourite tech-savvy claymation dog, and his cheese obsessed owner, are set to star in an upcoming PC title from Telltale Games, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures. Telltale, creators of the Sam & Max series as well as Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, seem particularly suited to bringing to life the adventures of a most beloved pair of animated characters and, with this release, are finally making the leap from PC to the Xbox LIVE Arcade. Release on multiple platforms means a larger slice of the populace can get their paws on this popular developer's work.

Telltale, which seems to have risen from the disgruntled ashes of LucasArts, showed their strength working with other people's creations in Strong Bad's Cool Game (which also appeared as WiiWare), and that bodes well for Wallace & Gromit, as does their experience both with adventure games and episodic titles.

With full consciousness of the awkwardness often suffered by point-and-click titles when ported to console, Wallace & Gromit has been blessed with a control scheme designed specifically for control pads. If this manages to make the game fluidly playable rather than another reason to wish for a mouse on your console, I personally will be extremely surprised, but very happily so.

It'll be interesting to see how far this new relationship with Xbox LIVE goes, and if we'll see Telltale's back-catalog of games appearing on the Marketplace soon (yes please). Given the company's touted commitment to digital distribution it's hard to see what might be disinclining them from doing so and thereby making even more money from the console-only market, or from expanding on to the Playstation Network, too.