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[DragonWolf_keny]

I recently found this article on game-spy.
http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/106/1062168p1.html

If this proves to be true we may just see much higher quality storytelling in games in the near future.

also I found this too

http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/106/1062237p1.html

I'm a huge fan of elder scrolls but, really I have to say the series needs to end while we still have fond memories to cherish. I was horribly disappointed when I played the main plot of Oblivion. It was short and killed the whole plots of all the games that came before it.

[Teric]

I think it's great that Peter Jackson is interested in getting into the gaming industry. I hope he can work with a development house to bring truly good storytelling and cinematics to games.

As a professional game dev myself, though, I admit am a bit skeptical. As fantastic a film director as PJ is, there is much much much more to making a game than just knowing how to tell a good story and set up great shot sequences. (Not that making a great film is easy--far from it. But making a game is a different ballgame altogether.)

If PJ does get into game making, I sincerely hope he will do so in the role of a designer/cinematographer, instead of trying to control/oversee the entire development process. There are several examples of past game projects that have failed miserably because an accomplished film director attempted to be a game developer without first understanding what truly goes into making a good game.

[Styx]

Just as long as they don't try making more movies based on video games.

[Benleopard]

lol, good luck with that one, Knowing Hollywood, when they run out of ideas for movies, they look for almost anything to make a script and the most successful is the game industry.

[Steven09]

I heard that they're making a movie based on the life-simulation game series The Sims!

I don't know how that's going to work, exactly...

[Styx]

It won't, same as all the other video game to movie flops.