EA & Steven Spielberg form partnership

[Kraig]

This is big news and a big step in put together a ton of new IP (games):

(From the LA Times)

EA, Spielberg Team Up to Make Video Games
By Julie Tamaki, Times Staff Writer

The world's largest independent video game publisher isn't just going Hollywood; it's going to the top of the A-list.

Electronic Arts Inc. is scheduled to announce today that it is partnering with Steven Spielberg, hoping that one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood history can help it top the box office in the world of video games.

Don't expect to see new video game versions of "Jaws," "Schindler's List" or "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Spielberg, an avid video game fan, plans to help developers at EA's Los Angeles studio churn out three original creations.

"Having watched the game industry grow from a niche to a major creative force in entertainment, I have a great deal of respect for EA's understanding of the creative format," Spielberg said in a statement.

Executives of Redwood City, Calif.-based EA declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal or the genres of the games their developers were pursuing with Spielberg.

"He really wants to make sure each of these products has at least one really meaningful innovation that nobody has ever seen before," said Neil Young, general manager and vice president for EA's studio in Playa Vista. "It would be akin to 'Jurassic Park' as a film. Nobody had seen dinosaurs moving that way before. That innovation added so much dimensionality to that film."

Young said players could expect to see the games on the next generation of consoles by Microsoft Corp., Sony Corp. and Nintendo Co. and possibly other platforms.

Countless movies have provided fodder for video games, and in recent years games have begun to inspire movies, as popular titles "Tomb Raider," "Mortal Kombat" and "Doom" were made into motion pictures. This month, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, the creative team behind "The Lord of the Rings" movies, announced that they would produce a film adaptation of Microsoft's blockbuster video game "Halo."

The collaboration between EA and Spielberg represents a twist to the deepening relationship between the movie and video game industries, as Young said none of the games would be based on Spielberg films.

In any case, history has shown that a Hollywood association won't necessarily translate to profits for video game makers. In fact, it was the game based on the 1982 Spielberg film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that industry executives say contributed to the industry crash the next year. So many copies went unsold that many reportedly wound up in a New Mexico landfill.

Young has higher hopes for EA's tie-up with Spielberg.

"We're trying to answer the question: Can a computer game make you cry?" Young said. "Partnering with Steven, we're going to get closer to answering it, and maybe we'll answer it together."

[Goat]

That's pretty nutty.
They're making a Halo movie? Those are some pretty big shoes to fill. It seems to me Video games to movies and vise versa only turn out uber shat or absolutely amazing, with no room for middle ground.

I heard something about an 18+ Doom movie with The Rock in it...?

A couple decent video games have come out this month I wouldn't mind playing - X-men Legends 2 and that marvel one ?

[FeelGood]

Originally Posted by kprojekt

Yes Games make me Cry, like Mario! Fucking Bitch is never at her castle. I go balls deep into Bowzers lair, with hopes to get some booty from the princess...then stupid mushroom comes and tells me the princess is in another castle

FUCKIN KARMA' !

[ppcock]

remember when paul oakenfold did the score for some game? WHAt a shitty game that was
BT - tiger woods 2006 psp.. SHITTY SOUNDTRACK

Chances are.. this game is going to suck. I mean.. its EA.. whoopdy.

[Kraig]

Originally Posted by ppcock

Chances are.. this game is going to suck. I mean.. its EA.. whoopdy.

Bitter? ;)

[ppcock]

since 2004 :)

[Lee]

I havent played a good game in a long time, I hope this works out well. Most of the IP out there rightnow is just regurgitated.


On a Semi-Unrelated topic..Kraig I'll have a bunch of new stuff that I'm making to give you soon.

[ppcock]

havent played a good game?

GET F.E.A.R.!

[Lee]

Ill have to check it out. Well it's not that there isnt good games out there but it's the fact that I havent had time to find a good game out there. Some of the best games I've ever played have had little or no advertising lol.

[Goat]

Chances are.. this game is going to suck. I mean.. its EA.. whoopdy.

What about Battlefield, battlefield2, vietcong, secrets etc ???
and Call of Duty - Finest hour, that was EA too wasn't it?

[Harp]

Originally Posted by ppcock

since 2004 :)

mr ppcanned