GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. de Blob is an innovative-looking Wii platform/action adventure game which sees you controlling a paint-filled blob of jelly. Yes, you read that ...

Like a lot of things, the takeover of “the blob” wasn’t noticeable at first. Sure, you’d see the blob here and there, but you didn’t think much of it. At the time, you didn’t even know it had a name.

I had a chance to check out de Blob at this year's GDC--the then-PC title was nominated at the Independent Games Festival for best student game--and remembered it as "that PC track-ball thing with the ...