I think I just had a massive nerdgasm. BBC Worldwide has told MCV UK that they’re planning on making several Doctor Who video games. As both a gamer, and a fan of Doctor Who I am very excited.

The Doctor Who licence is certainly important to the BBC, and the broadcaster has long held off making a game based on the popular sci-fi show.

“We’re having a lot of interesting discussions for a variety of ideas around Doctor Who that are complementary to each rather than in competition with each other – boxed product console games, virtual worlds and other experiences,” explained Dave Anderson, head of multimedia development at BBC Worldwide.

“The deals we are looking at are in different spaces, probably looking at overlapping but different audiences and are certainly delivering a different kind of experience. The Doctor Who audience, who love that show, want to have different experiences around it and it has a huge shelf life going back 47 years.

“It’s about managing and satisfying expectations of both older and younger audiences.”

Doctor Who adventure game, who’s with me?!

According to a report over on MCV, sales of Wii consoles have jumped a whopping 60 per cent last week, most likely due to the black version of the console helping to stimulate new interest in time for Christmas.

Nintendo says the Black Wii helped the console become the best performing home system of the week, resulting in increased demands for the Wii.

“Of course it would be wrong to attribute all of this to Black Wii as we’re all starting to see a natural peak season uplift on all hardware,” said senior Nintendo product manager Rob Lowe. No not that Rob Lowe. “But we have been really pleased with Wii’s performance over the last couple of weeks and the new Black Wii has certainly contributed to that. In fact Black hardware sales have doubled week-on-week.”

Will this lead to another bout of Wii shortages around the world? Nintendo is trying their best to avoid any stock trouble, but only time will tell.