LEGO and Gameloft today unveil the first trailer for a new game for iOS and Android smartphones entitled LEGO Legacy: Heroes Unboxed which will be available from the next school year.

To put it simply, this is an RPG with the possibility of team fighting which will celebrate 40 years of the LEGO minifig in its own way by featuring many more or less cult characters from different ranges of yesterday and today. An entire program.

Gameloft states that it has worked closely with LEGO on this game, notably by visiting the Vault, the room that brings together almost all of the sets marketed by LEGO and by closely studying the most vintage instruction booklets to produce content that will satisfy the most nostalgic of fans.

Gameloft being in the loop, it will probably be a game of type Freemium, free at the outset and profitable thanks to advertising in-game and in-app purchases.

Below, a first trailer which does not reveal much of the mechanics of the game but which will bring back memories to fans of Captain Redbeard: 

Anyone who has ever played the game Tiny Tower will be happy to learn that a LEGO version based on the same principle will be available on iOS and Android from summer 2019 and that it will therefore be possible to build a building with apartments and offices, all connected by an elevator, for give space to your minifigs ...

Prior to the availability of the game itself, LEGO is organizing a challenge on the same theme on March 26 via the LEGO Ideas platform, and the winners will see their creation integrated into the game in addition to being offered a few boxes of LEGO.

That's it that's all.

Here's at least one The LEGO Movie 2 polybag that you won't have to buy from eBay or Bricklink if you've already planned to treat yourself to the video game based on the movie: The Bag. 30620 Star-Stuck Emmet is in fact offered by Micromania for any pre-order of the game made before March 18th.

The three platforms below benefit from the offer:

• The LEGO Movie 2: The Video Game on PS4 (39.99 €)
• The LEGO Movie 2: The Video Game on XBOX One (39.99 €)
• The LEGO Movie 2: The Video Game on Nintendo Switch (39.99 €)

Please note, the game is announced for February 27 on PS4 and XBOX One, it will not be available until March 27 on Nintendo Switch. The terms of the offer were probably copied and pasted from one product to another. If you pre-order the PS4 or XBOX One version, do it before February 27 ...

Predictably, a video game based on the film The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is announced.

As in all the LEGO games developed by TT Games, it will be necessary to break or build things, solve mini-puzzles, collect coins, demolish bad guys, etc ...

We are also promised content referring to the two parts of what can now be called The LEGO Movie saga with more than 100 playable characters and levels including some iconic locations from the first film.

Availability on PC, PS4 and XBOX One announced for February 27, 2019. The game is already pre-order on the Microsoft Store.

The game will be released on Nintendo Switch one month later on March 26, 2019.

Good and bad news for fans of video games, LEGO and the Harry Potter universe: the good news is the arrival on the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch platforms of the compilation that brings together the two video games LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 et LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7. This remastered version of both games was already available exclusively on PS4 for two years.

The bad news: Even though the graphics and special effects have been improved a lot since the PS3 editions of these two games, it all visually aged badly with outdated versions of the characters and builds. So do not expect to be able to play with the digital representations of the new minifigs or to operate in brick-based settings identical to those of the sets released this year.

Without having a new game to bite into, many fans will be content with this late port on two new platforms ... It's always better than nothing.

Availability announced for late October.

XBOX One version for pre-order at this address.

Nintendo Switch version for pre-order at this address.