In a July 16-dated Newsweek story N'Gai Croal reveals that Steven Spielberg's much rumored Wii-flavored video game will be an "action-puzzle simulator" code-named PQRS. Croal describes it as a game that blends the creativity of Jenga with the charm of a Saturday-morning cartoon. Not very helpful for those searching out specifics, but Croal says the game will let you manipulate blocks with the remote.

The second game (Spielberg is said to be working on three with Electronic Arts) is a PS3 and Xbox 360 game code-named LMNO which is described as "North by Northwest meets ET... if ET were female, grown up and hot.

You don't play as the girl, however. You're an ex-secret agent, and the bond that you forge while on the run with the computer-controlled woman—good, bad, indifferent—determines the nature of her special abilities and the ways in which she'll assist you. Says Spielberg: "The challenge is, can the game have an emotional impact on players while they are actively manipulating the world?" Based on the clever ways in which he and EA are extracting a genuine performance from their digital Eve—complete with eyes that widen, lips that curl and translucent skin that lights up in different colors to express her quicksilver moods—we think Spielberg's got yet another hit on his hands.

The real question I think is whether the third game will be code-named HIJK or TUVW and if he plans on going beyond those initial three games and completing the entire alphabet in secret code names.

Wii Can't Wait to Play [Newsweek, via Destrutoid]