Steven Spielberg Wants To Direct Video Games
from the changing-times,-changing-media dept
While we've written in the past of EA's struggles in Hollywood, as they discovered that the marriage of video games and movies wasn't quite the slam dunk they expected, it appears they're not giving up just yet. Not only that, but it sounds like they're realizing that simply trying to make games associated with movies (or, worse, movies based on games) just isn't a reasonable strategy. However, that doesn't mean that Hollywood talent wouldn't be useful for them. So, they've gone and signed up Steven Spielberg to help them create original video games. This isn't about having him take movies and turn them into games, but to create brand new games from scratch. Perhaps even Spielberg is realizing that movies are losing out to video games for many kids.
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If he made a game
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Speaking of Lucas
I don't think the solution to bad video game concepts is to slap a big-time director on it. A bad video-game concept is a bad video-game concept. What the video-game industry needs is a label that isn't afraid to take a few chances, maybe create a video game NOT targeted towards 13 year old boys.
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He's a film director, not a gamer. They are almost diametrically opposed spheres: one is completely passive, the other interactive.
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Didn't he do this already?
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i dont know what this has to do with anything but.
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