Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy coming to PC this week

Ubisoft announced will be shipping a PC version of its upcoming fitness game Your Shape featuring Jenny McCarthy in North America. Your Shape featuring Jenny McCarthy comes packaged with a camera peripheral that features Ubisoft’s proprietary motion tracking technology, which promises a completely personalized and interactive work-out by scanning players’ bodies, assessing their current fitness level and then projecting their images onto the TV.

As an added bonus, the camera that comes bundled with the Windows PC version of the game is a fully functioning webcam.

For more information on Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy check out www.yourshapegame.com. The game is also available for the Wii.

Monster’s Ball scribe signed for Dante’s Inferno

Visceral Games announced that Academy Award-nominated writer Will Rokos is writing the story line for Dante’s Inferno, the adaptation of part one of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem The Divine Comedy from Visceral Games. Rokos is best known for his Best Original Screenplay nomination for Monster’s Ball in 2001, and is collaborating with the game’s creative team to craft an all new narrative that parallels the original poem. He certainly has his work cut out for him. I wonder if he’ll be writing the screenplay for the film, assuming a previously announced movie deal is still part of the equation.

“Taking such a naturally rich and deep universe and adapting for the video game has been one of the most interesting and challenging projects I’ve worked on,” said Will Rokos. “I really got into re-imagining Dante as a flawed hero with a dark past, and his determination to save the love of his life from a terrible fate. It was a truly unique experience to re-create one man’s hell, one circle at a time.”

In Dante’s Inferno, players assume the role of Dante as he fights through nine circles of hell - limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. Each circle features distinctive environments, custom creatures and demons, bosses and sub-bosses, unique gameplay scenarios, and specific story elements crafted to tell the sins of Dante’s past.

The video game will be available in North America beginning on February 9, 2010 and in Europe on February 12, 2010 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable

Tyler Bates scores Army of Two: The 40th Day

EA Montreal announced that film composer Tyler Bates will be creating the score for the third person co-op shooter sequel ARMY OF TWO: THE 40TH DAY. Bates is best known for his work on the films 300 and Watchmen, is crafting a score that will highlight the co-operative battles gamers and their friends will face in what EA hopes is the first major video game release of 2010.

With more than 50 films and 15 years experience, Bates is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after composers. In addition to Watchmen and 300, he has scored hit films such as The Day the Earth StoodStill, Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween 2, and Showtime’s hit comedy series “Californication”.

ARMY OF TWO: THE 40TH DAY will ship on January 12, in North America and January 8, 2010 in Europe. The game will be available for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PSP.

Spore - The Movie?

According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox has acquired the film rights to Electronic Arts and Maxis Spore video game to create a computer-generated animated feature of some sort. As you know Will Wright, creator of such hits as The Sims and SimCity, is the mastermind behind Spore. Chris Wedge, who directed Ice Age and Robots for the Fox studio, is attached to the project.

Wedge hasn’t directed a movie since 2005’s “Robots,” which grossed $128.2 million. He’s also attached to direct “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” which is set up at Warner Bros.

This could be a very fun movie if it is done right, and Wedge has done a good job thus far with animated films, so it has the potential to be good. We’ll keep you posted.

Tim Curry, Kate Mulgrew headline Dragon Age voice cast

BioWare has tapped Tim Curry, Kate Mulgrew, Claudia Black, Tim Russ, and Steve Valentine to do voice work for its upcoming action role-playing game, Dragon Age: Origins.  The game will feature Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Broadway’s Spamalot, as well as Kate Mulgrew, well-known for her role as Capt. Kathryn Janeway in “Star Trek: Voyager”, Dragon Age: Origins also includes notable cast members Tim Russ (”Star Trek: Voyager,” “Samantha Who?”),Claudia Black (”Stargate SG-1,” “Pitch Black”) and Steve Valentine (”Estate of Panic,” “Crossing Jordan”).

Tim Curry will play Arl Rendon Howe, a calculating villain descirbed as cultured and charming, with an insatiable lust for power. Kate Mulgrew will play Flemeth, a powerful witch who maintains her immortality through the darkest of means.

28 Weeks Later director in talks for Bioshock film

According to a report in Variety, 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is in talks with Universal Pictures for the adaption of 2K Games’ first-person action game BioShock. Gore Verbinski, who will reportedly stay on as the producer, has decided not to direct the film. John Logan is still attached - he wrote the script, so you know who to blame when the movie’s plot sucks.

Fresnadillo directed the 2001 Spanish thriller Intacto, but made his mark on Hollywood with 28 Weeks Later, sequel to the zombie thriller, 28 Days Later.

The report goes on to say that the reason for this is to save the studio money and not have another mess like they did with the Halo film, which is now stalled. Verbinski is looking to shoot the film abroad in order to take advantage of tax credits and favorable exchange rates. Verbinski can’t take the time needed to direct the film abroad because he is also working on other Paramount projects including the animated film Rango, which stars Johnny Depp.”

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Star line up for Real Heroes: Firefighter

Conspiracy Entertainment and Epicenter Studios announced the voice actors to be heard in heir upcoming first-person action game Real Heroes: Firefighter for the Wii. The game, which went gold earlier this week, is set for an August 2009 release, and was developed in cooperation with a 27-year firefighting veteran.

The cast of voice actors for Real Heroes: Firefighter includes James Marsters (”Spike” from the cult-classic TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Michael Jace – coming off his sixth season as (Officer Julien Lowe from the hit TV series The Shield), Jamie Kennedy (comedian), Jenette Goldstein (Private Vasquez in the classic film Aliens), Jack McGee (Backdraft and Rescue Me) and John Di Maggio (Bender from Futurama and Marcus Fenix in Gears of War).