This is probably the biggest games \ movie news to date, and it’s not really in the direction we would have expected. It’s not about a videogame coming to the movies with a big budget, big script, big stars, no. This is about one of the biggest movie moguls of our time working with videogames and giving them some serious praise too. From Coming Soon:
In a ground-breaking long term agreement, Electronic Arts Inc. today announced that Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg will be collaborating with the game makers at EA’s Los Angeles studio (EALA) to create three new original franchise properties. Beginning this year, with offices located on site at EALA, Spielberg will work directly with EA’s development teams to offer his signature style of storytelling to the concept, design, story and artistic visualization of the new games.
Huge deal, and a huge event. Could one of these be a new Indy game?
“I have been playing EA games for years and have watched them master the interactive format,” said Steven Spielberg. “Having watched the game industry grow from a niche into a major creative force in entertainment, I have a great deal of respect for EA’s understanding of the interactive format. I’m looking forward to working closely with the team in Los Angeles.”
“There is no greater storyteller than Steven Spielberg,” said EA Chairman and CEO Larry Probst. “In addition to his gift for pleasing movie audiences, he has an innate understanding of games and how to immerse players into a fantastic world of action and characters.”
This is really exciting news for game players, and it’s also interesting to think what the reverse payback will be, more exposure for the games industry in the movie industry? Here’s a huge tie between some of the biggest players of the two market places, surely that bodes well for a shared future that goes further than the half baked movie adaptations to date?
