The well-trodden path of videogames to the movies (usually taking a left turn to avoid going through the ‘making sure the film is good' door) is set to be walked by two further high profile titles in the years ahead.

The first, and perhaps the most obvious, given how cinematic some of its sequences are anyway, is Call of Duty. Activision Blizzard, the game's publisher, has filed for a trademark for the game in specific relation to ""pre-recorded movies featuring comedy, drama, action, adventure, music, theatrical performances and/or animation". As /Film reports, this comes on top of a previous refusal from the firm's CEO to comment on the possibility of turning Call Of Duty into a movie.

Now granted, this is all a bit join the dots, but the clues do seem to be coming together with regards a Call Of Duty feature. Our guess is that they would follow the World War II setting of games one, two, three and five, rather than bringing things bang up to date with the Modern Warfare titles. Just don't let Mark Wahlberg anywhere near it would be our main piece of advice.

The second title is a bit more of a puzzler. Will Wright's Spore doesn't strike us as an obvious candidate for the big screen, but 20th Century Fox is nonetheless looking to turn it into an animated movie. It's going to be directed by Ice Age helmer Chris Wedge, while Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who penned the screenplay for Disney's upcoming The Princess And The Frog, are on scripting duties. What the story is likely to be is anybody's guess, given that Spore is hardly the kind of game you could say has a narrative thrust to it. But we wait and see.

Mind you, we wonder if Spore The Movie might capture the spirit of the game when it eventually arrives on DVD. Will the disc only be playable on three different DVD players before you have to call and ask for permission to watch it round your mate's house? Or will you simply have to contact a central server to request permission to watch it in the first place? The possibilities are simply endless. It's almost certain to have the following anti-piracy advert on it, too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

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