Milne winnie the pooh6/8/2023 Hundred Acre Wood doesn't have a release date yet, but it's available now for wishlising on Steam (opens in new tab). This isn't the first bizarro-world videogame take on a traditional children's story-that honor, I believe, goes to American McGee's Alice (opens in new tab)-and it's not the only one currently in the works, either: Pinnochio is getting a similar treatment in the upcoming soulslike Lies of P (opens in new tab), which is set to come out in August. It's all a bit of a muddle: Plagiarism Today (opens in new tab) has a good breakdown of how it all works. Disney also holds trademark rights to its specific interpretation of the characters, too, so the public domain Pooh Bear has his old-fashioned, all-naked look, rather than the stylized red-shirt version we're more familiar with. Milne had been a prolific playwright, screenwriter, detective novelist and contributor to the humor magazine Punch when he first brought the character Winnie-the-Pooh to life in his 1924. But stories and characters that were published later remain bound by copyright, which is why Tigger isn't in Hundred Acre Wood despite being such a well-known character: He didn't appear until 1928, so won't enter the public domain until January 1, 2024.
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