As longtime TG readers know, we’ve been wondering for quite some time why there hasn’t been a great video game movie. But game adaptations have apparently been doing very well with the Halo 4 webisodes, and the Syfy series Defiance, a very expensive risk that’s apparently paying off.
While the video game market is still enduring a lot of ups and downs, quite a few video game movies have been put into development, including Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, and Deus Ex, while Need For Speed will be hitting theaters next year.
Since the first Evil Dead movie, Sam Raimi's proven to be a very resourceful and inventive director, and he’s certainly come a long way since his low budget horror days.
It’s a lament we repeat a lot around here, but we still don’t have a good video game movie. Actually, "good" is much too generous. How about a half-way decent or watchable video game movie?
The best video games in history. Cool idea for a list, and I’m surprised I haven’t seen it anywhere else recently, although putting a collection like this together is quite a daunting task.
Piracy is perhaps the greatest fear of many entertainment companies. The movie business is terrified of it, with the phenomenon also causing considerable damage to the adult industry.
Back a few years ago, video games were reaching a fever pitch again, to the point where I was wondering when the big video game movie was going to come along.
