The release of the first Warhammer 40,000 feature-length straight-to-DVD movie, simply titled Ultramarines, is coming up. To be more precise, the movie’s worldwide release, according to the film’s website, will be November 29, 2010.

Video games, amusement park rides and now classic board games? You bet.

Universal Pictures is developing a film based on Hasbro’s classic peg-and-board strategy-guessing game, Battleship. So far the $200 million production includes director Peter Berg (Hancock), actor Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as Naval Commander Alex Hopper and the film debut of musician Rihanna. The movie is expected to be released in theaters May 25, 2012.

Oh, movie companies. You take the games we love and make them into movies it’s hard to love. And so, now, you’ve taken the acrobatic platformer Prince of Persia and made it into a big-screen treatment feature.

We want to love it.

Really we do.

But, yet again, you just didn’t make it very easy on us. Click through to find out why…

Most of the movies made from video game adaptations up to date have been less than stellar productions (thanks Uwe Boll), to say the least. From Street Fighter to Doom every one of them has strayed far from the original material and ended up a mess.

Now there is some light shining on video game fans with the news that Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B Entertainment, is making its debut on games-to-film adaptations with Capcom’s upcoming action title Dark Void. Plan B has secured the movie rights for the game and there is even some speculation that Brad Pitt himself might be up for the starring role.