'Bourne' Again: Vivendi Games Announces 2008 Mobile Lineup

Not surprisingly, 2007's hottest movies are about to become 2008's biggest mobile games.

Vivendi Games Mobile announced its first-half 2008 lineup of mobile games today, and it's looking like a conspiracy - "The Bourne Conspiracy," that is, a mobile game based on last year's Matt Damon actioner. Other titles include:

• "Prison Break," based on the Fox TV show

• "SWAT Elite Troops," sequel to the 2006 Spike TV Videogames Awards Mobile Game of the Year

• "Wordox: Word Snatcher," Vivendi Games Mobile's first network-connected multiplayer game, Wordox: Word Snatcher is based on the popular Wordox online game which reached a peak of 2.5 million players in 2002

More timely, the company will launch a mobile game based on "The Spiderwick Chronicles," based on the line of children's books, and the movie that opens next month.

It's not uncommon for console and mobile games based on popular movie shows to come out a good six months to a year after the fact - partly because of the sheer amount of work in creating a game, and partly because it takes time to figure out which properties are proven hits. After all, why make a game off a show that turns out to be a stinker?

And this is hardly the most time-delayed batch of pop-culture mobile game tie-ins. "Dukes of Hazard," "Charlie's Angels" and  "Miami Vice" hit handsets, what, decades after their prime time.

Jason Bourne can take his time. Cool is cool - no matter the time delay.

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