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Rock Band Performs For Viacom, Despite Downturn
by Leigh Alexander
[11.04.08]
Viacom's third-quarter profits slumped by 37 percent amid poor movie sales and TV ratings -- but its ancillary and games revenue, led by Rock Band, grew 36 percent on the strength of the popular rhythm game.
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Capcom Upping Hollywood Ties With Lost Planet Film
by Eric Caoili
[07.16.08]
In an effort to strengthen its Hollywood development and expand its franchises to additional forms of media with a “one property with multiple uses” strategy, publisher and developer Capcom has announced a film adaptation for Lost Planet, which will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros.
PC, Console/PC, Hollywood
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Feature: Will Summer Games Give Hollywood A Run for Its Money?
by Eric Caoili
[05.20.08]
With summer game sales debuting alongside Hollywood summer smashes, Gamasutra asks Wedbush Morgan, EEDAR, and OTX analysts: out of the games being released over the summer, which games will shine, and which will succumb?
PC, Console/PC, Mobile Console, Hollywood, Exclusive
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Report: NBC on Verge of $100M Investment in SCi
by Chris Remo
[04.18.08]
Media conglomerate NBC Universal could be in the final stages of a $100 million investment in UK-based SCi Entertainment Group, which owns Eidos Interactive. SCi could also be soliciting increased ownership by Warner Bros. Entertainment, which already holds a 10.3 percent stake in the company.
PC, Console/PC, Hollywood
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Report: Sony Considering Sale Of Animation, FX Division
by Christian Nutt
[10.31.07]
A New York Times report suggests Sony might consider selling its animation division to companies interested in expanding their work into the game business -- while SCE and Sony Online Entertainment are not part of any possible deal.
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Hollywood & Games Confirms World Of Warcraft's Pardo
by Staff
[06.06.07]
The organizers of the 2007 Hollywood and Games Summit have confirmed Blizzard's World Of Warcraft lynchpin Rob Pardo as a key panelist as the summit, which will take place June 26th-27th in Los Angeles.
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20th Century Fox Scores Rights to Sims Film
by Brandon Boyer
[05.25.07]
According to a new report, Electronic Arts' best-selling franchise The Sims will be getting a live action film treatment from 20th Century Fox, with Eragon and Norbit producer John Davis at the helm.
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Strategy First Sign Jagged Alliance Movie Deal
by David Jenkins
[03.09.07]
Strategy First have announced a partnership with Los Angeles based video game and film production company Union Entertainment to create a movie adaptation of the PC turn-based strategy series Jagged Alliance.
PC, Hollywood
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D.I.C.E. Summit - Sony Pictures' Yair Landau's Opening Keynote
by Frank Cifaldi
[02.07.07]
At the opening keynote at the 2007 D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, Sony Pictures Entertainment Vice Chairman and Sony Pictures Digital president Yair Landau discussed convergence and the game biz, previewing SOE Seattle's previously unrevealed spy-themed MMO along the way.
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H&G: EA's Young, Fox's Asbell On 'The Art Of Pitching'
by Frank Cifaldi
[06.27.06]
At today's Hollywood and Games Summit in Beverly Hills, Electronic Arts Los Angeles Vice President and General Manager Neil Young and 20th Century Fox Vice President of Production Steve Asbell gave fascinating presentations on 'Who, When, Why, Where and How to Pitch' video games and films, respectively.
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H&G Keynote: Paul W.S. Anderson Talks Successful Video Game Movies
by Frank Cifaldi
[06.27.06]
At the opening of the 2006 Hollywood & Games Summit in Beverly Hills, film director Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil) delivered a keynote speech entitled "Pressing the Right Buttons: How to Successfully Blend Game and Film." [UPDATE: Also added, a H&G write-up on 'The Art Of Pitching' with EA and Fox execs.]
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Feature: 'The Ultimate Challenge: Balancing Work and Personal Life'
by Quang Hong
[05.04.06]
The vital question of 'quality of life' for game developers was raised at the recent WIGI (Women in Games International) event in Dallas, leading to significant insight on the issues involved from a panel of developers from Ensemble, Aspyr, Stormfront, and BreakAway Games. Gamasutra was present to cover the discussion in detail.
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IGDA Adds Capps, Crowell, Merripen To Board
by Simon Carless
[05.03.06]
The International Game Developers Association has announced the results of its recent election for its Board of Directors, revealing that Epic's president Michael Capps, Ubisoft Montreal creative director Christopher Crowell and Cryptic's Clarinda Merripen will be joining the IGDA's Board of Directors on June 1st for the start of the next term. In addition, Mitzi McGilvray, General Manager for Casual Games at TikGames, has been re-elected to the board for another term.
PC, Console/PC, Mobile Phone, Mobile Console, Serious, Career, Indie, Student/Education, Hollywood, Casual, Columns
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Column: 'Critical Reception: Pipeworks' Rampage: Total Destruction'
by Frank Cifaldi
[04.26.06]
This week, Critical Reception targets the Pipeworks Software developed, Midway published Rampage: Total Destruction for the PS2 and GameCube, as the franchise seeks to return to relevance - or at least prominence - with its latest incarnation.
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Column: 'Blogged Out: Of Democrats, Darwin and Rocking Out'
by Frank Cifaldi
[04.21.06]
In this week's Blogged Out, Gamasutra's look at recent web log posts in the game development community, regular columnist Jim Rossignol focuses on Darwinia developer Introversion's post-GDC write-ups, continued reaction to Guitar Hero, and Manifesto Games' Greg Costikyan's vision of a more democratic games industry, as extracted below from his blog:
PC, Console/PC, Mobile Phone, Mobile Console, Serious, Career, Indie, Student/Education, Hollywood, Casual, Columns
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Reminder: Question Of The Week On GDC 2006
by Simon Carless
[04.14.06]
Gamasutra would like to remind its readers of the latest "Question Of The Week" feature, a specific industry-related question to be answered by professional game developers and Gamasutra readers.
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Gamasutra Nominated For Webby Award
by Staff
[04.11.06]
Gamasutra is pleased to announce that it has been nominated as a finalist for the 10th Annual Webby Awards in the 'Games-Related' category, a significant achievement for the CMP Game Group-run site in the competition that the New York Times calls 'the Oscars of the Internet'.
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Feature: 'Can Austin Become the Hollywood of Games?'
by Simon Carless
[04.10.06]
In today's main Gamasutra feature, an all-star cast of game developers, game publishers, entertainment attorneys, and film producers met at SXSW in Austin to look at Austin, its strengths, and the hurdles it faces in striving to become a game development mecca.
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CMP Announces New GDC Focus On Events, In-Game Ad Summit
by Staff
[04.06.06]
The CMP Game Group (which also owns Gamasutra.com), host of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), has announced a new series of industry summits dedicated to specific areas of the game industry. The first of these turns the focus to in-game advertising with GDC FOCUS ON: Game Advertising Summit, to be held June 9th, 2006 at the San Francisco Marriott.
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Game Developer April Issue Pits Kong Against Wright
by Simon Carless
[03.31.06]
The latest issue of Game Developer magazine, the sister print publication to Gamasutra.com, and the leading U.S. trade publication for the video game industry, is in the process of shipping to subscribers and is available from the Game Developer Digital service in both subscription and a new single-issue formats.
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