Meredith Sweet

Lone Shark Games and Wired Magazine, in conjunction with Universal Pictures, have teamed up to introduce a viral “reality game” to promote the upcoming Jude Law and Forest Whitaker film Repo Men, due out March 19.

“Reality games” are a new way of generating buzz about an upcoming movie; The Dark Knight did this through a massive, Webby Award-winning campaign involving The Joker taking over major “Gotham City” publications and media outlets. Now it’s time for the people to be hunters rather than Gothamites; in accordance with the storyline, players can sign up to be “repo men” and hunt down the four “runners,” who are in severe arrears on their payments of their artificial organs, or artiforgs.

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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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Adam Bruno

Yes, I’m quite serious. This hunky guy (pictured above, and still sexy at 63…rawr!) has decided to open his own development studio. If you don’t know who Jerry Bruckheimer is, you’ve probably seen one of his TV shows or movies. CSI, Cold Case, Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Hawk Down, and more can all be attributed to him. So his track record’s not too shabby.

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