Epic Mickey is an action-adventure platform video game developed by Junction Point Studios and published by Disney Interactive Studios for the Wii. It was released in November 2010 in North America and PAL territories and August 2011 in Japan by Nintendo. The game focuses on Mickey Mouse who accidentally damages a world created by Yen Sid for forgotten characters and concepts and must save it from the Shadow Blot. The game features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit a character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and originally owned by Universal Pictures; The Walt Disney Company gained ownership of the character in 2006. The game marks the first time that Mickey and Oswald appeared together.