While Wii Fit and Grand Theft Auto IV vied for our attentions last week, Sierra Entertainment pulled a fast one and managed to drop a couple of bombshells of its own during its gaming-centric event, Sierra Spring Break 08. Aside from the new info springing forth for The Bourne Conspiracy, Prototype, and World of Conflict, we've also gathered tons of new details on the massively multiplatform Ghostbusters: The Videogame. The features, screens, and a little bit more can be had at the full story.

Disney Interactive Studios recently voiced its stance regarding video games, but what about the other movie studios out there? Are they just as enthusiastic about licensing out their movie rights? Or do they actually publish video games themselves?

More on the status quo in the full article, right after the jump.

With the success of top grossing movies such as 300 and Doom, the trend of "crossovers" between Hollywood and the game industry is still going strong.

Highlighting this, Sony Pictures Digital  Entertainment President Yair Landau discussed the topic of convergence between Hollywood and gaming and how this connection is benefiting each other.

The details at the full article!

If you were teased by Resident Evil: Degeneration's screenshots, this trailer should get you off your feet in anticipation of Capcom and Sony Pictures' upcoming CGI film. You'll find the trailer at the full article, so hurry and make that jump!

It's been a while since we last heard from Capcom and Sony Pictures Entertainment about their big collaboration project for the first full-length CGI movie based on the Resident Evil series. However, here's a big update: eye-popping exclusive screenshots of Resident Evil: Degeneration.

Check out the drool-worthy screenshots after the jump!

Taking a page from Square Enix's successful release of "Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children" a couple of years back, Capcom and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced plans to release their own full-length CGI movie based on the hit Resident Evil (a.k.a. Biohazard in Japan) franchise.

The movie will be titled "Biohazard: Degeneration", and will be the first full-length CG animation movie feature based on the popular video game series of games and movies.

Many will recognize Resident Evil for establishing the survival horror game genre and its many successful titles across multiple platforms since it was first released in 1996. The latest iteration to the series, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, marks the continuation of the video game franchise and shows no sign of stopping any time soon.

Following a successful spin-off on the silver screen, the trilogy of films produced and directed by Paul Anderson was well received by movie and video game buffs everywhere, with each movie grossing over US$ 100 million at the international box office. With Sony's and Capcom's announcement of this newest offspring for the series, fans of Resident Evil will definitely be watching out for this latest cinematic experience.

No news on the characters or its plot in the complicated timeline of the Resident Evil series have been announced, but we're keeping our eyes open for any new developments from the two companies. Biohazard: Degeneration is currently in production and set to be released in 2008.

Although both Sony Pictures Animation (under Sony Pictures Entertainment) and Sony Computer Entertainment both belong under the larger Sony umbrella, guess that they're not averse to some third-party outsourcing of film licenses. Happened before with SPE's Open Season (Wii, PSP, NDS, Xbox 360, PC), developed by Ubisoft Montreal, and it's happening again for the latest flick, Surf's Up.

Surf's Up is the story of one guy's passion for surfing taking him into the high-octane world of competitive surfing. That the guy - and most of the characters - happen to be mostly penguins is just an incidental point in this mockumentary. This should make for an interesting surfing game. Wonder if it will be of extreme proportions... or if there will be rabbid cameos... (*WARNING* Bunnies Very Useful Scientific Facts #45-ish: Bunnies can't surf)

• Innovative arcade and surf feeling with players performing a variety of impressive tricks in the air and learning to surf inside a tube.
• Win the championship in the single-player mode or challenge your friends in the multiplayer mode with easy pick-up-and-play game controls.
• 10 playable characters with their own tricks and characteristics.
• Impressive water simulation and physics. Surf in a variety of locations, each with its own waves and obstacles. Train in the calm water of Shiverpool, ride your first tubes in Pen Gu Island, and try to surf on the explosive waters of the volcano area.
• Tons of unlockable content.
• Awesome game soundtrack for carving waves featuring 10 licensed music tracks.

Read link below takes you to the still-coming-soon official game website. Game coming in May 22, 2007, for the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, NDS, PSP, and PC, as well as the PS2, GameCube, and GBA.

Top gaming executives will be given the chance to network and exchange ideas in GDC Prime, a closed-door event that will take place alongside the Game Developers Conference (GDC) next month. The invite-only event will take place over a span of three days and will include talks by Sony Pictures's Yair Landau and Shalom Mann, Foundation 9 CEO Jon Goldman and EA Los Angeles vice president Neil Young.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, conference director Jamil Moledina said that topics should revolve around "the practical issues surrounding developer mergers and acquisitions, how distributed development affects the bottom line, and taking the lessons of the iPod, MySpace, and YouTube profitably into the games industry".

GDC Prime will take place at the W Hotel, San Francisco, between March 6 - 8. There will also be a networking reception at the start of the event, and a private GDC Prime Lounge will be available throughout for informal meetings. Members of the press will not be permitted to attend the event, but executives wishing to attend can request an invitation via the GDC Prime website.

Let's talk for a while about ZootFly's planned Ghostbusters game. We all saw the videos. We all got excited (I did, anyway). Now we're looking at the possibility that it's never going to happen.

ZootFly's Ghostbusters videos have just been pulled off of YouTube at the request of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The only thing you'll see when you try to look for them is "This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Sony Pictures Entertainment because its content was used without permission."

All references to the game have also disappeared from the ZootFly website. According to CVG, who contacted ZootFly about the issue, the developer says that "the videos were indeed removed at the request of Sony Pictures and all references to the game have been removed from its website while negotiations over the rights continue behind closed doors."

Well, at least negotiations are still ongoing, so there's still hope that the game will still see the light of day. With Sony now starting to move, maybe it'll get a PS3 release. Heck, it could even become an exclusive. Whatever happens, though, we're definitely making sure we don't cross the proton streams.

This is not going to be another "ZOMG, it's an Uwe Boll movie! Head for the hills!" kind of article. Nope. We've heard a bit too much about how some video-game-movies tend to bomb worse than a certain film about snakes on a plane (we're not name-dropping here). Today, we're going to head off along a different tangent.

So, someone pass the popcorn, please. Here's something definitely worth watching. We're at the cusp of a revolution, and, not to mention, at the edge of our seats as well. Can't you smell it? There's a big storm coming. Some of us have probably seen it on the horizon already. And now it's creeping ever so quickly.

Due to recent developments, we have all noticed a general trend that some games are taking. As technology breeds faster, more and more games are starting to become "virtual movies." That is to say, when we sit down in front of our consoles, we're watching a movie - only, we get to interact with it.

In the next couple of days, all next-gen consoles will be out to the market (excluding certain areas, of course; but out to the public nonetheless). Once all three are out, it's going to be a battle to be reckoned with. But at what forms would that battle take? One form: video games that act as these so-called virtual movies.

An open ending

If you're thinking "Yeah. Old news. We know that games are becoming more like movies. Thanks for wasting my time with nothing new." - well, we're telling you that it's not about games becoming "like" movies.

It's about games becoming movies in their own right.

It's not enough to have cinematic cut scenes. That's old. We're not talking actors and huge budgets. Many games have been there and done that.

We're talking about what Lorne Lanning of Oddworld Inhabitants described as something "being talked about by media companies, but for the most part isn't really happening yet."

In other words, we're not talking about making a game that's like a movie. It's not making a movie out of a game. It is a 100% complete fusion of both the gaming and movie-watching experiences. This is something that media companies have yet to achieve - and who knows - maybe they'll do it in this next-gen era.

But is this possible? Read the Full Article for more popcorn talk. Sony Pictures. Mark Hamill. Hollywood actors threaten a strike. Drama. Oddworld Inhabitants. Big games. Big explosions. And big dreams for our beloved gaming industry.