Huffington Post reports that a Carmen Sandiego movie is going to happen, and Jennifer Lopez is producing it. Early plot reports make the forthcoming adaptation of the beloved computer game sound pretty formula-tastic: According to Deadline, the movie’s concept will be “‘National Treasure’ meets ‘The
Consider the case of cult thriller author Michael Grant, whose marketing scheme for his forthcoming novel BZRK revolves around an alternate reality game that stretches beyond the book into what he terms “transmedia.” Fast Company elaborates: While the book remains central to the main story, Grant sa
In his latest blog post, Clint Hocking, who is quickly becoming the web’s most quotable developer, thought aloud that videogames haven’t established the same quality and breadth of other forms of pop entertainment. His reservations were in response to a blog posted by The New Yorker, which looked at
Imagine flying your Bronzed Drake over those craggy mountains, or warding off a squad while driving your pick-up truck through a forest fire, or even coming across that bear in an RPG and having it ask you riddles. These are all things we are highly interested in doing in games. -Drew Millard [via]
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