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Wallace & Gromit are going on a new adventure.

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new video game: This image provided by Telltale Inc. shows a scene from the Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure game.

Telltale Games is creating an episodic video game based on Aardman Animations' Oscar-winning animated film series titled Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures.

The popular stop-motion clay animated franchise stars the cheese-loving, hair-brained inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his long-suffering loyal pooch, Gromit.

"We're certainly going for the clay look with this," Telltale Games CEO Dan Connors told The Associated Press.

"Clay presents a challenge if you really get into the detail of it.

"For example, adding fingerprints in a medium where there aren't any is one of the discussions of how far we should go with the game's detail."

Grand Adventures will allow gamers to play as both Wallace and Gromit, engaging in zany entrepreneurial schemes and tinkering with kooky contraptions.

Connors said Grand Adventure will feature more physical and situation-based comedy and would likely follow the distribution model of Telltale's episodic video game series Sam & Max.

Aardman Animations has produced three Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit animated short films as well as the full-length feature film The Curse of The Were-Rabbit, which won an animated film Oscar in 2006. A Matter of Loaf and Death, a fourth animated short starring the twosome, is currently in production. The characters previously appeared in the stand-alone games Cracking Contraptions, Project Zoo and Curse of The Were-Rabbit.

Connors hopes the new take on Wallace & Gromit will be more true to the franchise than previous games.