We all already know that Coraline, the fantastic book by Neil Gaiman, is going to be made into a movie and video game. Well, now that the movie’s February 6, 2009 release date is creeping closer, D3 Publisher has released more information about the game’s plot and a worldwide release for the games have been announced.

The Coraline games almost sound like a possible point-and-click adventure titles, since the press release says players will explore the her normal home apartment flat and the Other world as well. Mini-games are also promised (naturally – it is going to be geared towards children), as well as missions with Coraline’s friends Wybie and Cat…

The movie Eagle Eye has inspired a cell phone game. Magmic teamed up with Paramount Digital Entertainment for the portable endeavor, which follows the storyline of the movie. The portable version is available for cell phones, BlackBerries and Windows Mobile devices, and costs $6.99.

Suprisingly enough, it looks fairly intriguing. Eagle Eye the mobile game has players playin as both Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman at the exact same time. Well, not the exact same time – you switch off between the two. But both are onscreen at once. You follow the events of the movie, attacking enemies, solving puzzles and using each character’s unique skills to find out who is controlling them and why a mysterious woman picked Jerry and Rachel to carry out these missions…

Videogame properties translated into movies don’t tend to fare very well – Just look at Uwe Boll and his pantheon of suck, or even the better-intentioned but no less crappy Mario, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies of the ’90s. But, for some reason, producers Christine Peters and Michael Cerenzie of new production company CP Productions aren’t scared of the bad rep. In fact, they’re so unafraid that they’re planning on turning the 1982 arcade classic, Joust – a game about brawling ostriches – into a mainstream film.

The flick has been described as a sci-fi action movie akin to “Gladiator meets Mad Max,” though …

Film director James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator, Titanic) announced his decision today (July 24 2007) to select Ubisoft to develop the videogame based off his newest project, the 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar. The choice was based on a yearlong standoff between four game companies, each of which was tasked with presenting creative briefs to the director.

Ubisoft’s version was most in keeping with Cameron’s vision, showing off “…a fully realized presentation, which captured the soul of the world and the characters, while promising to be a knockout game on its own terms.” The title will not be a linear retelling of the film’s storyline, which itself sounds rather unique…

Historically, the translation of a movie into a game has been challenging to say the least. Though there may have been a few exceptions through the years, the vast majority have received fair to poor reviews. Take two games based on recent movies for instance,