Grin, the Swedish developer behind several recent big-budget titles like Bionic Commando, Terminator Salvation and Wanted: Weapons of Fate has just announced that it’s closing its doors permanently. According to Gamasutra, the studio is closing over “cash flow issues”.

Recently, in an interview Yahoo! Games, film director and part of the development team for Boom Blox Steven Spielberg let the public know about the different problems he’s had with game cinematics.

In the interview he made it brutally obvious that he has been a long-time gamer bring up some of his past with gaming going all the way back to Pong. One of the ways he brought it up was toward the end of the interview where he is quoted as saying, “I thought Pong was the Woodstock of videogaming.” Being that it was one of the first big games of its time, that analogy is pretty accurate.

Spielberg also noted the failing of game cinematics and brought up that a lot of cut scenes try to tell a story. However, due to the obvious switch between gameplay and cut scenes, some gamers take a…

Title: WantedRelease Date: June, 27, 2008Publisher (Developer): Universal Studios (Top Cow)Rating: RPros: Good acting from the two main stars, guilty pleasure if your into this type of film, first Top Cow comic-to-film adaptionCons: Weak story, doesn’t follow the comic, dull set design, too loud, unbelievable action sequences, the film has no identity of its ownOverall Score: One Thumb Sideways, One Thumb Down, 67/100, D+, * 1/2 Stars

Just when comic book films were starting to reach new heights, along comes Wanted to knock everything back down.

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Marc Silvestri, the owner of Top Cow Comics confirmed last week on his MySpace page that Top Cow’s popular heroine Witchblade is coming to the big screen in 2009.

Filming for the comic-to-film adaption of Witchblade is scheduled to begin September 2008. So far, Platinum Studios the developers of the film are planning for a 2009 release. A cast has not yet been announced yet but it looks like…