SCIFI WIRE -- Game publisher Konami will develop video games based on the upcoming new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV series, according to 4Kids Entertainment, the co-producer of the series, and Mirage Licensing, which holds the rights. The TV series, which updates the once-popular franchise, is scheduled to debut on Fox in the first quarter of 2003.
The first new game is slated for release during the 2003 holiday season for multiple game platforms, the companies announced. Konami created a dozen Turtles video games during the franchise's burst of popularity in the 1980s and '90s.