Hollywood’s run out of awesome foreign films to destroy (for now), so what’s next? Games, of course! Gore Verbinski should be a familiar name to most gamers; he directed the Pirates trilogy and is producing the upcoming Bioshock film. If Bioshock weren't enough for you, now Variety is reporting that he purchased the rights to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 3, 2008
This Halloween, EA likely made video game licensing history when they managed to attract four separate film studios to bid on the movie rights to a video game they hadn't even announced yet: Dante's Inferno. Today, Variety reports that the winner is Universal, and that they landed Dante's Inferno in a seven-figure deal. But to GameCyte [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 30, 2008
In July, gamers learned that you can't make the largest video game software publisher in the world without breaking a few eggs. Namely, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena, Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend, the four high-profile titles which, for whatever reason, Activision Blizzard decided not to retain after their [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 12, 2008
The Wanted video game has been a giant blip on my radar screen for three reasons. First, I've been hankering for a good slow-motion bullet ballet for some time, and Max Payne 3 is nowhere to be found. Second, with movie studio Universal publishing the game themselves, Wanted promises to be one movie adaptation that [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 24, 2008
It's a well-known fact that when it comes to video games, movie tie-ins are almost always licensed schlock. With creative backing from the film studios, they may look pretty and sound authentic... but in terms of gameplay they typically run the gamut from uninspired to just plain terrible. But this week, Universal, Warner Bros. and [...]
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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