Title: Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 Price: $49.99 System(s): PS3 (Also available for 3DS, DS, PSP, Wii, Windows and Xbox 360) Release Date: November 11, 2011 Publisher (Developer): Warner Bros. Interactive (Traveller’s Tales) ESRB Rating: “Everyone 10+” for Cartoon Violence and Comic Mischief Pros: There are 200 characters available, there are new spells for Harry more »

Take your time playing through Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, because it’s going to be a while before the next Lego game is out. Actually, it probably won’t be until Christmas. That’s when Warner Bros. Interactive and Traveller’s Tales will be releasing Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7…

If you are in the California (USA) any time soon, you might as well head to LegoLand. Besides all the Lego-y goodness, rides and stores galore, there is a video-game section called the Xbox Family Gamespace.

With an entrance guarded a giant Lego style dinosaur holding a white wireless Xbox controller (and a life size Batman made entirely of Legos just inside the door), the pair of rooms is dedicated to all the recently released Lego console games. The room has a great atmosphere with glowing seats (filled with wireless controllers), offering plenty of butt space for parents who don’t want to partake in the games (foolish folks) or for games with especially decent vision.

OnLive began distributing LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 at midnight. This makes OnLive users among the first to play the game. To celebrate its first day and date release, OnLive is holding a competition to see who can beat LEGO Harry Potter first. The grand prize is an Apple iPad. The next 5 people to complete the game will get an iPod Touch. Before you go running off, there are a few rules you need to be aware of.

Our favorite spineless hero returns from the ’90s with the release of Earthworm Jim HD June 9, 2010, for 800 Microsoft Points

Jim was quite the popular invertebrate back in the day, even getting his own cartoon. All the original game’s levels are available in HD, as well as three new levels. Through the miracles of next-gen technology, Earthworm Jim now features 2-4 player co-op and online leaderboards.

There are even more Worms available in the Xbox Live Deal of the Week. Worms 2: Armageddon, Peggle and Duke Nukem 3D are all on sale for 400 MP. Serious Sam HD, Battlefield 1943 and Call of Duty Classic are all 800 MP.

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is hoping to rope Harry Potter fans into spending even more money on LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 with collector’s editions of the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 versions of the games. A standard copy of LEGO Harry Potter for any of the systems costs $49.99 when it comes out June 29, 2010. A collector’s edition costs $69.99, $20 more.

So what do you get for that additional $20? Not much. The main draw is a set of magnets. Yes, magnets. It comes four LEGO magnets with the Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw crests on them. It also comes with a DVD you’ll never watch that has featurettes from LEGO Harry Potter and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The Xbox 360 collector’s edition version of LEGO Harry Potter does have a slight edge over the other editions…

The Lego game I’ve been waiting and hoping for has finally been officially announced! Warner Brothers Interactive finally revealed that TT Games is working on Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4! The company hasn’t announced what system(s) the game will be released on, but since the previous Lego games tended to appear on practically every system, I think it’s safe to say Lego Harry Potter will have an all inclusive release. The only downside is, we’ll have to wait until 2010 to actually play the game.

It sounds like a very free-form, sandbox style game, based on the initial description. Players can go through the story, attend classes, perform magic and explore locations from the first four Harry Potter books. Of course, like all Lego games, there will also be multiple characters to play as, though only Harry, Ron and Hermoine have been confirmed so far.

Along with the announcement, a brief trailer was also released. It’s really more of a tease than anything, but still fun to watch…

This one’s still technically a rumor, but it comes from good sources and it makes so much sense that it warrants some speculation. Variety’s Cut Scene reporter Ben Fritz is commenting on both a CVG post and an older interview stating that Travelers Tales (makers of Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman more »