Cartoon Network announced Tuesday that DreamWorks Animation’s critically acclaimed feature film, “How To Train Your Dragon,” will be coming to the network as a weekly series in 2012.

The film has been a success with audiences and critics alike. It’s an adventure-comedy about a young Viking and his unlikely friendship with a dragon that has grossed nearly $500 million at the worldwide box office. It comes to DVD and Blu-ray on October 15.

“Great characters and captivating story telling along with state of the art animation is what we love giving our audience,” said Stuart Snyder, President/COO of Turner’s Animation, Young Adults and Kids Business. “The How To Train Your Dragon weekly series definitely falls into that category of giving our viewers around the globe something they can’t find anywhere else on television and DreamWorks Animation is a proven leader in taking this art form to the next level. We are ecstatic to be bringing this project to our network and working with everyone at DreamWorks Animation.”

“How To Train Your Dragon,” based on the book by Cressida Cowell, rolls fire-breathing action, epic adventure and laughs into a captivating and original story. Hiccup is a young Viking who defies tradition when he befriends one of his deadliest foes—a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless. Together, the unlikely heroes must fight against all odds to save both of their worlds.

In the television series, the characters and worlds originally created for the big screen will be explored and further developed in a number of exciting ways that will be revealed over time. TV audiences will be taken on original, new adventures with Hiccup and Toothless every week.

The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night, starts the game off with a recap from the last game, where Spyro defeated the evil dragon Cynder. After Spyro defeated Cynder, she turned into a little dragon, just like Spyro. When Spyro saw that she was like him, he had to save her from the dark power. He escapes with her and brings her back to his castle.

The first level of this game is his escape with Cynder. It’s supposed to be escaping a nightmare — they made the level so dark though, it’s nearly impossible to see in most lighting on the original DS. I found this very annoying.

The game played similar to other Spyro games though. It is a 3D world that Spryo jumps, flies and moves around in. Spyro is a good game for younger gamers. The fighting style isn’t well put together — it tries to use the pen/touch features, but you end up slamming buttons all around.

The puzzles are done well though. They use the pen and are long enough. They also use it better, moving pieces of the puzzle around on a grid to solve it. They are fairly easy puzzles, but again the game is aiming itself for a younger generation.

Overall, the pen fighting is a pain, but the rest of the game was fairly solid platformer. It’s still pretty generic, and the lighting early on is awful.

Quick hits:

Publisher: Sierra
Developer: Amaze Entertainment
Platform: Nintendo DS (reviewed), GBA, Wii, PS2
Genre: Adventure
Players: 1
Launch Date: October 2, 2007

Playability: 4 out of 5 stars
Learning Curve: 4 out of 5 stars
Sound: 4 out of 5 stars
Graphics: 3 out of 5 stars
Overall: 3 out of 5 stars