Following two Xbox 360-exclusive iterations, the latest game based off Screenlife's film trivia franchise "Scene It?" will appear on PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 this holiday--a move distributor Warner Bros. hopes will capitalize on "casual gaming's explosive growth."

Developed by Artificial Mind & Movement (A2M), Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! promises "thousands of new questions," with topics including "recently released 2009 movies as well as fan favorite Hollywood hits from the last four decades."

The announcement also listed a variety of "improvements" made by the developer that seem to target casual gamers, such as "a simplified game interface" and "a new, very entertaining game host" plus word of "new, unique mini-game content."

Media conglomerate Time Warner has made a $33 million offer, via its Warner Bros. Entertainment subsidiary, to purchase assets from bankrupt publisher Midway.

The proposal sees Warner attempting to purchase "substantially all of [Midway's] U.S. assets," including the Mortal Kombat franchise plus development studios in Seattle and Chicago. However, Midway was clear that the Warner offer does not include the TNA franchise, the Midway San Diego studio and Wheelman developer Midway Newcastle.

The two companies are now in a "stalking horse" agreement, with a "court-supervised auction process...intended to achieve the highest value possible for [Midway's] stakeholders" set to occur before the court can approve or deny the Warner bid.

Confirming the long-running rumors, publishers Warner Bros. and MTV Games today announced that LEGO Rock Band will hit PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS in "holiday 2009."

LEGO Star Wars developer TT Games is handling the three consoles versions "in partnership" with Rock Band series creator Harmonix, while the Nintendo DS release "will be co-developed by TT Games and Harmonix in partnership with [Rock Band Unplugged PSP developer] Backbone Entertainment." A few tracks were revealed:

• Blur - "Song 2"
• Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting"
• Europe - "The Final Countdown"
• Good Charlotte - "Boys and Girls"
• Pink - "So What"

"LEGO Rock Band combines the multiplayer music experience of Rock Band with the fun, customization and humor of the LEGO videogame franchise packed... Read more

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced it is acquiring Snowblind Studios, the Seattle-based developer behind such games as Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath and Justice League Heroes.

Snowblind Studios becomes the third studio under the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment umbrella, joining F.E.A.R.2 developer Monolith and LEGO game creator TT Games.

"We look forward to working as a part of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on creating several distinctive games with wide appeal," said Snowblind Studios head Ryan Geithman. "Our team is committed at every level to making the best gaming experience possible for our audiences."

Snowblind's current project is the Xbox Live Arcade action game Death Tank.

The next entry in the LEGO videogame series will be a Nintendo DS-exclusive one, it was announced today by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and series creator TT Games.The squad-based game LEGO Battles will be based on the LEGO Castle, LEGO Pirates and LEGO Space series of toys, mixing together all three themes. As such, expect to see pirates, aliens, ninjas and dragons battling side-by-side during the game's 70 levels. The game will also be more strategic in nature than previous entries in the series, as players will be able to build bases.

Multiplayer is also supported through wireless DS multi-card play.

LEGO Battles will be developed by Hellbent Games, and is expected this summer.

It's been six years since the second Angelina Jolie-starring Tomb Raider flick hit theaters, and Warner Bros. wants to give the franchise another chance at the box office.

Details are scarce at the moment, but The Hollywood Reporter writes that the film "will reimagine the origins of the character, her love interest and the main villain" and "bear little resemblance to the [Paramount-produced] original pictures."

Ian Livingstone of Eidos, which publishes the busty action-adventure video game series, will serve as executive producer. Dan Lin of "Sherlock Holmes" will produce.

No writer or director are attached, nor is an actress that would assume the role of Lara Croft. Though rumors suggest Transformers star Megan Fox might take up the mantle, What They Play reports that Fox's spokesperson has denied her involvement.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will soon launch Pamoja Mtaani, a free multiplayer PC game that raises awareness of AIDS and HIV, Variety reports.

Translated as "Together in the Hood," the Virtual Heroes-developed title will be playable at youth centers in Nairobi, Kenya. According to Africa News Science, Nairobi is the pilot location for The Partnership for an HIV-Free Generation, and will be used to discern the most effective practices in halving HIV infections among those aged 10-24.

Wrote Warner Bros.:

The "Pamoja Mtaani" game, developed by noted serious games developer, Virtual Heroes, Inc., follows five strangers who are brought together through unforeseen circumstances, losing what is most precious to each of them. Working their way through various East African neighborhoods, players must recover the stolen items and help an injured woman on their quest. Along the way, they will experience barriers and facilitators to behavior change through a variety of missions and mini-games.

The HIV-Free Generation program, part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, launches today in Nairobi. Other companies, such as Coca-Cola and Nike, are part of the program and are hoping to lower HIV infections in girls aged 15-24, as girls are said to represent "two-thirds of all new infections among 15-to-24 year-olds."

Warner Bros. today officially announced Terminator Salvation - The Videogame, based on the Christian Bale-starring Terminator Salvation flick that hits May 22, 2009.

Crafted by Bionic Commando and Wanted: Weapons of Fate developer GRIN, the game is billed as "an action-packed, third-person shooter" with game-exclusive enemies, and will arrive "in conjunction" with the movie.

Apart from a mention of "next generation consoles," platforms for the game were not provided. A previous report pegged it for "next-generation consoles, PC and mobile."

"The player will be led through a visceral story with extremely polished production values to create a fully interactive Terminator experience," noted Cos Lazouras, president of Terminator license holder Halcyon Games.

The game will sport "an incredibly fluid and realistic control set," Lazouras added.

Upon its release, Terminator Salvation - The Videogame will be published by Equity Games, co-published by Evolved Games and distributed by Warner Bros.

The sequel to Monolith's spooky shooter F.E.A.R. will now be known as F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin instead of plain old Project Origin. Furthermore, the game will hit PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on February 10, 2009, according to IGN.

Though Monolith created the first F.E.A.R., the sequel was not going to use the brand name as Vivendi owned the title while Monolith held the rights to its characters and settings.

That changed today as Monolith and owner Warner Bros. revealed that they had purchased the F.E.A.R. brand from Activision Blizzard, recently formed from the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games. The conglomerate has previously stated its intent to only retain a handful of Vivendi properties, leaving a number of projects in limbo.

A television series based off Traveller's Tales' upcoming action game LEGO Batman is currently in production, beginning with a one-off short about 20 minutes in length.

While Warner Bros.-owned developer Traveller's Tales will have no direct involvement in the show, which is being handled by a separate studio in the United States, the series will utilize the same technology and assets that power the block-busting game.

"I think it's a 20-minute cartoon," game producer Rich Earl told GamesIndustry.biz. "I'm personally quite intrigued to see how it comes out. LEGO, every time they've had a new brand out, they've done some CGI stuff as well, but I think this will be quite different."

Earlier in the year, Traveler's Tales teased that it was planning a LEGO TV show based off its work, which includes LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Indiana Jones.

The LEGO Batman game is slated to hit PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP in September, with the studio presently at work on LEGO renditions of other, unspecified Warner Bros. properties.

LEGO Batman and LEGO Star Wars developer Traveller's Tales is planning to produce more LEGO titles based on properties controlled by parent corporation Warner Bros. as well as an upcoming children's television series, the developer has revealed.

As the studio's latest effort LEGO Batman nears its September release on virtually every major platform, Traveller's Tales president Jon Burton told Variety that the company has "gotten started doing some LEGO games [based on Warner properties]."

Properties controlled by the studio's parent include such candidates as Superman and Harry Potter, among others. As for the future, Burton noted that the company may create a children's television show in the future, utilizing technology originally... Read more