It’s not uncommon for Hollywood films to get videogame adaptations these days, but those projects are mainly concerned with big-budget blockbusters. According to a press release from indie developer Madrack Games, they’re looking into developing small, indie titles based on some older film properties, and some newer ones as well — including short films.
The LA-based developer revealed that their first projects include an adaptation of Buster Keaton’s The General (1927), and a smaller game based on an upcoming short film called Final Tuesday, which deals with the end of the world and asteroids. Madrack Games didn’t mention any release dates, but they promised some concept art this Summer. In the mean time, enjoy the teaser poster of Final Tuesday above.
Mass Effect 2 has just hit the stores and it appears there’s a lot of interest from Hollywood to turn it into a movie — pretty much the same deal every successful game sees. However, BioWare isn’t that hopeful, as BioWare’s Casey Hundson puts it,
“Obviously we have a tremendous amount of interest from people in Hollywood to make a major motion picture about Mass Effect. The most important thing for us is, we don’t just want to see a movie get made … we want to see a great movie get made, if it’s going to get done at all.”
Meaning that we’ll probably never see a Mass Effect film, the same way we’ll never see a Half Life film. And that’s the way it should be.
Role Playing Games (RPG) are a big hit and while we have tons of them around in the market, expect one big splurge from this latest from tri-ace, Sega in Resonance of Fate. Resonance of Fate will be the next big RPG from tri-Ace, Sega announced today, as the title is currently in development for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 . A release date sometime during spring 2010 is all we could get out of Sega, though the company did share a few details about the game itself.
Resonance of Fate will include highly stylized graphics and focus on “realistic gunplay” for its core gameplay mechanic. And speaking of mechanic, players will find themselves role-playing their way through a gritty, mechanized world that is ripe for supporting Hollywood-style action sequences.
With its focus on gunplay, Resonance of Fate will let players completely customize their weapons, presumably giving unique weapons for each of the game’s characters.
(Source) Daily Game
AMD’s graphics division, ATI, has announced that they’ve shipped their 50 millionth Wii GPU, codenamed “Hollywood”. It thereby becomes ATI’s most successful console GPU. ATI’s Rick Bergman said of the milestone:
“We’re proud to provide the ATI ‘Hollywood’ chip as the cool and quiet graphics engine that factors so prominently in the overall enjoyment for Wii owners. AMD counts Nintendo as a valued customer and we continue to work together to make console entertainment a growing phenomenon worldwide.”
ATI previously supplied Nintendo with GPUs for the GameCube, and are currently supplying Microsoft with GPUs for the Xbox 360.
