Stop Everything, There's A Doctor Who Video Game Picture!

Hey, look, it's an image of Matt Smith plucking away at his TARDIS's strings. Wait, what's that, The Doctor looks a little different. Is he CG?  He is.  From Facebook by way of Kotaku, behold the first image of the upcoming PS3 game Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock.  The game, which'll hit the PS3, Vita, and PC later this year, features The Doctor and River Song investigating the Eternity Clock, a device recording every event in the history of the universe. I presume the Daleks, Cybermen, or Clock King are scheming something untoward around the clock, and it's not just The Doctor sightseeing.

We're excited. Doctor Who's come a long way since returning to television screens in 2005, but while the show's evolved from a nerdy secret kept from even other nerds into the most prolific sci-fi saga of this generation, its games have been, to use a British expression, "woolly". We picked up a handful when we visited the UK last year (a trip pretty organized pretty much exclusively to see the Doctor Who Experience), and while we don't regret the purchases, if the games didn't feature The Doctor slathered all over them, we'd call them another British expression, "rubbish".

Still, we're excited for what 2012 will bring. Right now, Doctor Who: Worlds In Time, an adorable, kid-themed MMO, is in open beta, and everything we've seen of it thus far is delightful. And, with The Eternity Clock, we could be looking forward to The Doctor's first big, proper, polished game on a console.

Here's that first image from The Eternity Clock nice and big...

And here's the trailer...

Fingers crossed it makes it to the US.