'LEGO: The Hobbit' Video Game Trailer Stokes Your Spirit of Adventure

Lego has officially announced a video game adaptation of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.

The game will let you step into the square, plastic shoes of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Grey and 13 of their dwarf compadres as they journey to find adventure and fight the evil dragon Smaug. Dialogue from the movie provides the voices for the characters in the trailer, but the cutscenes retain the Lego tongue-in-cheek physical comedy familiar to fans of the video game franchise.

The trailer offers the vague release date of "Coming 2014," so don't expect to get this for your kids — or, face it, for yourself — this Christmas. However, you should be slaying orcs and smacking Smeagol within the next calendar year. Read more...