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In 1982, Disney took a bold risk with the release of the movie Tron, a film set largely inside a fictional world in the computer and made largely with CGI. It was different and new and at the time the movie didn't get a huge box office reception. However the legacy of that movie, and of the arcade games it spawned, have influenced the world at large, and game and computer programmers in particular, for years to come.

While developer Monolith released Tron 2.0 in 2003 for PC owners as a sequel to the movie, Disney decided later to create a true movie sequel in Tron Legacy which is due in theaters on December 17. On December 7, Disney Interactive and developer Propaganda Games will release Tron Evolution for the PC and other platforms. This action-adventure game serves as a prequel to the new movie. Big Download got one of the game's designers Dan Bourdage to give us some more info on the game including some PC specific features.

As expected months ago, there's a new Tron game in development and it looks like we will get our very first good look at the movie-based title during Spike TV's Video Game Awards on December 12. However, GameTrailers.com has a few seconds of teaser footage that you can check out after the jump.

It's pretty likely that the game will be out in 2011 around the time the 1982 movie's long awaited sequel Tron Legacy is due in theaters. It's also likely that Disney Interactive is handling the publishing duties as well. But who is the developer of the game? And will it make us forget the pretty solid Tron 2.0 game that Monolith released just a few years ago? We will have to wait and see.