Interactive Entertainment and Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two from Disney Interactve.

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The game maker scours the Disney archives when developing each new Epic Mickey game.

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It also closed Junction Point (Epic Mickey 1 and 2) this January, after purchasing it in 2007.

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Disney, its eyes fixed on a future of gamified toys, closed his Junction Point Studios, the creators of Epic Mickey.

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However, Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two earned a disappointing 59% on aggregate site Metacritic, which to many publishers is a proverbial nail in the coffin.

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From "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" to "Epic Mickey" and "DC Universe Online, " many titles offer special collector's editions brimming with such extras as action figures, bonus DVDs and even remote-controlled toy vehicles.

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Disney Epic Mickey, from Disney.

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We have all sorts of pens and photo mode and all sorts of stuff that just really allows you to customize the experience and make it what you want it to be to tell your story, which is what the Disney Epic Mickey games are all about.

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But Stan the Man was famous, not for earning more than the President (like Babe Ruth), marrying Marilyn Monroe (like Joe DiMaggio), spitting on fans (like Ted Williams) or going on epic benders (like Mickey Mantle), but for hitting a baseball.

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Or Spector might have spurned Disney and sought crowdfunding for Sleeping Giants, the epic fantasy game he mothballed to take on Mickey.

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