The first week of July was pretty busy for “big time”, movie-based video games, featuring not only the debut of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but more importantly to us, a game based on the animated Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. The Activision Publishing and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising game for Ice Age launches at the same time of the 3D animated movie. The game was developed for all major consoles by Eurocom, and the handheld version for the Nintendo DS was developed by Artificial Mind & Movement. Would you get the game without seeing the movie?

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is not even in theaters yet — in fact, it wont hit until the summer of 2009 — but already, the rumors and news bits have started circulating.  One particular rumor was of special interest to ToonBarn… that Harry Potter could have his own cartoon series after the live-action movies make their run.  It could be CGI, it could be traditionally animated… who knows.  While the details are still sketchy, it seems very possible that Warner Bros. would turn their mondo-popular magician boy into a mondo-popular cartoon.  How many of you would watch, if they did?