Meredith Sweet

I was reading through a lecture for an online class of mine when I read a very interesting line: “the track record for video games derived from movie franchises typically don’t fare very well, and that’s because movies are a linear experience, whereas video games are an interactive experience.” My professor’s got a point. Movies have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Video games can be from different characters’ viewpoints, and you can often skip sections or miss scenes. Most games also have multiple endings, with two or three being a common number and 104 being the highest number of endings for a single game that I know of.

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Adam Bruno

With a little bit of Disney magic, Spider-Man could appear in the next Kingdom Hearts! Okay, maybe this is an overstatement, but Disney announced today that it has agreed to purchase Marvel Entertainment for a cool $4 billion. This obviously has a lot of implications for fans of either (or both) companies, and may factor rather heavily into the future of video games. So, what does this mean for us?

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