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Uwe Boll. You know him. You love to hate him. Now the director of not just some of the worst video game movies ever made but some of the worst films made, period, is getting things prepped to make a third flick based on the Terminal Reality-created Bloodrayne action-horror game franchise.

DreadCentral.com claims they got the info straight from Boll himself during a chat with the director at the American Film Market earlier this month. According to the article, the movie will be titled Bloodrayne 3: Warhammer and will begin production in January. Actress Kristanna Loken, who starred as the title character in the first Bloodrayne movie, will be wearing her vampire fangs once again for the third movie. Most interesting of all this third movie will be set during World War II which was also the time period for the first BloodRayne game. There's no word yet if the third flick will use any plot elements of the BloodRayne game.

Last week GoG.com announced that they had brought in Majesco as their latest publisher that will provide the DRM-free PC game download site some of their game titles. Today the latest addition is arguably one of the publisher's most well know games. Bloodrayne, the 2002 released third person action game starring a "good" vampire with guns is now available to purchase and download via GoG.com for $5.99.

The GoG.com version of the Terminal Reality-developed game comes with some free extras like the game's soundtrack, concept artwork and avatars. The game itself was popular enough to spawn a sequel and Uwe Boll, director of so many bad films, helmed not one but two Bloodrayne movies. With vampires more popular than ever, perhaps its time for Bloodrayne to make a comeback.

With the huge success that the New York Comic Con had this past weekend, it's clear that comic books and games have lots of links and a shared audience. We have posted up a feature about comic books that we think should be turned into games but the truth is more and more games are being adapted and expanded in comic book form.

Various publishers have released game-based comics over the years and today in the first part of a two part series Big Download looks at just some of the attempts to turn games into four-color entertainments. Stay tuned as we will have even more examples on Tuesday. Update: The second part of the feature is now up.

Click on the link above to continue reading From Comics to Games: Part 1

Atari has its first profitable quarter in some time a few weeks ago, even after being delisted from the NASDAQ stock market. Now yet another game publisher, Majesco Entertainment, is facing the same threat. The company announced late today that their stock has gone below $1 a share for the past 30 days in violation of NASDAQ rules. The stock market has given Majesco 180 days to comply with their minimal stock price.

Majesco used to be a busy PC publisher; a few years ago it released games like Psychonauts, Advent Rising and the Bloodrayne series. For the past few years Majesco has concentrated on releasing budget games mostly for the Wii and DS consoles.