Video game movies have been good, and bad. One bad video game movie adaptation that immediately comes to mind is the Doom movie. I thought it was cool but most movie critics didn’t agree with me. Well, the latest speculated to be coming to the big screen is Space Invaders. Yes, Space Invaders.

The L.A. Times says that the Space Invaders movie is to be a “big-budget action-blockbuster” with producers such as Json Blum, Guymon Casady and Mark Gordon.

I just wonder, what the hell is the movie going to be like? Are they going to have a whole alien driven plot? They must considering it would be damn ridiculous to sit and watch some 8-bit space crafts descend on some 8-bit establishment.

News comes to us from Taito who will be releasing the classic games for the BlackBerry both for $4.99 a peice. What’s better is the games feature 2 control schemes, one for the touchscreen touting BlackBerry Storm and another for use with physical button touting BlackBerrys.

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Space Invaders

Well, the times have changed a bit and now the game is ready to make it’s way onto the iPhone/iPod touch via the App Store. The latest title will be called Space Invaders Infinity Gene and will take the classic title and give it a new age spin.

You can pick up Space Invaders Infinity Gene now for the iPhone/iPod touch off the App Store for $4.99.

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It was recently made known that the Xbox Live Arcade rendition of Space Invaders, Space Invaders Extreme, is set to get its share of downloadable content tomorrow, priced at just 240 Microsoft Points.

Included in this pack are three new stages including both new enemies and bosses for players to pit themselves against. But that’s not all as the pack will also feature playable version of both Space Invaders and Space Invaders 2 (the original titles) for some good old nostalgia.

Again, you’ll be able to pick up this DLC pack for the XBLA version of Space Invaders Extreme for just 240 Microsoft Points tomorrow, June 17th.

To most of us, the Spaced Invaders game will always be a figment of our past. It has addicted a lot of us mature citizens today and incidentally, it would be glad to note that this game which turns 30 years old today is still up and about.

Space Invaders, for the one or two of you who haven’t had the pleasure, is a two-dimensional shoot-em-up in which the player controls the left and right movement of a laser cannon across the bottom of the screen. The player’s cannon is partially protected by several stationary defence bunkers which can be shot away gradually by both the player and the advancing ‘invaders’.

Space Invaders spawned a number of sequels, remakes and remixes on several formats. In 1980 a Space Invaders release on the Atari 2600 console proved to be one of the first ‘killer apps’ and quadrupled sales of the hardware. Some other ports and copycats received a far less enthusiastic reaction however.

Space Invaders is as synonymous with electronic gaming as the guitar is to rock music. It opened the doors for what is now a bigger industry than film or music. The pixilated imagery of the invaders is known across the globe by consumers spanning three generations.

It’s an icon of a time where games were designed to make you want to insert another coin, then another until your pocket money had vanished down that slot at which point you’d stand there and enviously watch the next kid do the same.

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