With one of the summer’s most anticipated blockbusters, The Return of Indiana Jones, due in theaters in less than three weeks, you’d expect producer Steven Spielberg to be all about movies right now. Instead, he’s enthusiastically chatting up another subject dear to his heart: video games, in particular a cute puzzler called Boom Blox. It’s Spielberg’s first creation in collaboration with Electronic Arts, and it’s in stores now for Nintendo’s Wii.

Boom Blox, which blends block-building and block-busting with memorable characters, was “the first idea that jumped into my head.” He drew inspiration from his family; he has seven children, the youngest 11. “There is a continental divide in my own house between what I play and the kind of games my kids play.” That’s a gap he aims to bridge. “I wanted something that would bring the family together in the same room, standing shoulder to shoulder with four different controllers.”

Source: USA Today