A new officially-licensed game is in the works at Blizzard, Mike Griffith has confirmed, the big cheese revealing the title while lifting the lid on the publisher's second-quarter financial results.

The new Bond offering will be released in 2010, we're told, and next year will also see the company deliver fresh installments based on their Spider-Man and licenses.

Tony Hawk: RIDE will of course hit town this winter, sporting a lavish new board peripheral, and Griffith explained that licensed IPs are a big part of Activision's strategy.We've no idea what genre the new Bond title will fall into, but persists that could be planning some kind of 007 driving game. More shortly.

By Luke Guttridge