Last month, Lego Batman was singled out by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood for its disingenuous Lego branding. One of the reasons Legos are great for kids is that they encourage creativity and building. But Lego Batman, like its Indiana Jones and Star Wars predecessors, is just an action game with a cutesy Lego look. The Campaign rightly called them on it.

Fortunately, it looks like Warner Brothers Interactive might addressing that complaint in Lego Battles, due out this summer for the Nintendo DS.

LEGO Battles offers a new kind of "build and battle" LEGO gameplay. Through six distinct story lines, players build their own LEGO bases and battle teams as they engage in over 70 different levels, mixing and matching units to create the ultimate customized LEGO squad. These unique LEGO battles teams see pirate swordsmen fighting side-by-side with wizards and aliens; dragons battling ninjas; and pirate ships launching broadsides against spacecraft and knights!