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Former BioShock series lead Ken Levine says he had conversations with Alec Baldwin and Emma Stones for roles in the series, but the former wanted "half a million dollars" for the role of Andrew Ryan.
Despite the implosion of Annapurna Interactive—whose entire staff quit earlier this week—the recent deal its parent company, Annapurna Pictures, made with Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment will remain intact, according to the studio's communications director Thomas Puha.
According to the Hollywood Reporter and Bloomberg, prolific videogame publisher Annapurna Interactive has functionally collapsed, with its senior leadership team and the entirety of its over 20-person staff resigning. The shocking move leaves the future of Annapurna's active development deals in question.
Peter Molyneux, a veteran game developer responsible for games such as Fable, Dungeon Keeper, and Theme Park, spoke out about what he thinks people can expect from the games industry over the next few years and what developments will be made to keep it alive. The main answer was AI. When asked by Eurogamer where he thinks the world of video games will be in two years time, he mentioned that AI will most likely be heavily used at this point.
The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard crossword puzzle still reigns supreme. The daily crossword is full of interesting trivia, helps improve mental flexibility and, of course, gives you some bragging rights if you manage to finish it every day.
The voice of Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan says he'd "absolutely" like to return to the character in a TV or film adaptation, but that Hollywood's attitude to video game actors might make him think twice.
The highly illegal but very popular media streaming site Fmovies and an affiliated network of pirated movie and TV show websites have been shut down. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition of movie studios and entertainment companies including Disney, NBCUniversal and MGM, announced the dismantling of the illegal streaming site, several of its other websites including bflixz, flixtorz, movies7, myflixer and aniwave and its video hosting provider vidsrc.to, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
While others started with Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, or Tekken, my childhood fighting game obsession was 1993's Eternal Champions. That series didn't quite have the same longevity, as it turned out, but today I am vindicated: They're making an Eternal Champions movie.
At this point, I'm kind of waiting for the Borderlands movie's redemption arc to kick in. Despite its stacked cast and many years in development, this thing has been universally declared a stinker: and not even the so-bad-it's-good kind. PCG's own Joshua Wolens found it left him pining for the original Super Mario Bros movie, the Rotten Tomatoes score stands at 10%, and the opening box office receipts were utterly dire ($16 million globally on a $145 million production / marketing budget, and that's even before the theatres take their cut).