Wreck-It Ralph is a different kind of video game movie though.
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Participants say the attraction lies in seeing your video-game or movie fantasies come to life.
Below that, you'll find lights for three of the headset's four EQs consisting of none, music, game and movie.
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If that 94 minute figure is even in the ballpark, that spells a world of pain for video game, movie and broadcast television industries.
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The show also plays an important role in how successful future game, movie and TV launches will be for companies that invest millions of dollars into new franchises.
The trailer, in my opinion the best of the year, video game, movie or otherwise, sums up the story better than I can, and I highly recommend giving it a watch below.
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We won't mourn too much when personas like Ron Gilbert, Lawrence Holland and Tim Schafer have long since moved on to other companies -- still, it's unquestionably the end of an era for game and movie fans alike.
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The aim is to get game developers to work with movie producers for a simultaneous release of a combined movie-game or related games and movies.
And there are times where I want to go back and forth between my game and a movie, or times when I want to be with my friends, and we'll be watching a movie, then we want to switch to a video game, etc.
That sense of authenticity is what gamers want when they see a game-based movie.
Then again, Transformers: Dark of the Moon was not designed as an everyday, run-of-the-mill movie game.
For the most part, Hollywood has tried and failed at bringing big game franchises to movie theaters.
Schrader treats the story as an elegant horror-movie game, a trick done with mirrors, and he carries it off.
Abrams said they wanted to collaborate on a video game or a movie.
Mobile app downloads in the US grew by more than 120% over Christmas 2011 even as consumers spurned video game consoles and movie theaters.
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Using the human anatomy itself to create a powerful sense of immersion, KOR-fx enhances video game play, movie watching and music listening, through an entirely new form of acousto-haptic technology.
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Maybe she's a shade too attractive -- it's hard to take your eyes off her hair, so luscious it practically demands its own trailer -- but the contrast with flinty, brittle old Gus is effective, and Adams shows some grit too, easily bossing Justin Timberlake (game as the movie's token love interest).
They had the forethought to explore the video game realm both inside the movie and started development of a video game offshoot with none other than Valve Software.
One reason: Movie-based game publishers tend to cut corners in development, counting instead on a movie's popularity to drive demand.
In the longer run these movie-game hybrids will be released directly to homes via broadband networks.
Parents should never base their opinion of a game (or a movie) on a ratings mechanism.
If it fails, it may join the list of mediocre or terrible game-to-movie adaptations, like the ones below.
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If the video game industry follows the movie industry in its transition to digital streaming, profits will take a hit as consumer behavior shifts to renting games from owning them.
Brian Miller, producer of the Star Trek game and senior vice president at Paramount Pictures, said that the studio had the option of rushing another bad movie-based game out in tandem with J.
He told me (outside of that interview) that transmedia plays an important role for the success of this franchise, which also had a free app and a new comic book released along with the movie and game.
Sony also partnered with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to develop My Daily Clip application, a fun movie trivia game that lets up to four players gather around the VAIO Tap 20 and watch a wide range of favorite scenes from Sony Pictures movies and answer trivia questions.
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It looks like Disney is taking the same steps to ensure that the biggest Marvel super hero movie of all time also gets a decent game, rather than yet another crappy movie adaptation.
On the movie site, the game day trailer was available, as were online games, opportunities to connect to the movie in social networks and view additional video content on the site or on other video viewing sites.
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And like the movie and video game industry, some makeup stocks have fared much better than others during the great recession.
This formerly fringe event is quickly going mainstream, thanks to a surge of interest sparked by the movie and video game industries.
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