The next Lego video game isn’t going to be a Lego version of an existing series or movie. Prepare yourself – it’s going to actually be based on a new line of Lego toys. Shocking! Warner Bros. Interactive and Traveller’s Tales Games are going to release Lego: Ninjago: The Videogame in Spring 2011. If you can’t wait for ninja Lego dudes until then, head to Toys R Us. They just started carrying the toy counterpart…

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Hellbent Games and TT Games have announced the Summer 2009 release of the DS game Lego Battles

According to the press release, Lego Battles promises to be a strategy game (with no indication of how much real-time combat there will be) with the “trademark humor and endless customization of Lego.” It will include 90 levels, six stories and combine kits themes Space, Castle and Pirates. Gamers will be able to mix and match 55 different units from all three themes and use 30 vehicles and wirelessly (unfortunately through multicard) battle each other on land, sea and in air.

Looking at the cover there are pirates, little dudes in space outfits, knights, British soldiers and waitamoment.

Could it be?

A frickin’ Lego Ninja and a Lego Pirate on the same game cover?!

You know that buzz that’s been going around about a Lego Battles game? It turns out that it is going to be a DS game. Even more surprising – instead of being a fighting game, like everyone assumed from the title, it’s going to be more of a strategic RPG.

Lego Battles is going to be based on the original toys, with the Lego Castle, Pirates and Space themes specifically mentioned in the press release. There are six different stories in the game, and 70 levels. The goal is to build bases and battle squads, based on popular Lego toy lines, and send them off to battle against other Lego toy lines.

It turns out that there will also be multiplayer…