<![CDATA[Kotaku: 300]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: 300]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/300 http://kotaku.com/tag/300 <![CDATA[Watchmen Composer Scores Army Of Two: The 40th Day]]> Tyler Bates, the man behind the music for 300 and Watchmen is also the man behind the music for Army of Two: The 40th Day. See him talk about what he's done. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5377991&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Cheap, Quick PS3 Bundle For The Holidays]]> Don't look now, but it's another holiday console bundle. This one's for Europe, and is for the PlayStation 3. It includes an 80GB PS3, a DualShock 3 and a copy of 300 on Blu-Ray. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101255&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA["300" Director Signs With EA]]> Move over Steven Spielberg! There's now another Hollywood movie director in the EA stable. Zack Snyder, the filmmaker behind 300 and The Watchmen adaptations, has signed a three game deal with EA much like the Spielberg deal. The company will retain full ownership of the Snyder-developed titles, Variety reports, but EA will also work with him to possibly bring the games to the silver screen. Since the deal has literally just been closed, Snyder apparently hasn't even come up with the first game yet. Imagine it'll be a while before we see anything on these titles. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5056121&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[300 The First Successful Video Game-Styled Movie]]> While the blockbuster hit film 300 was based off of a graphic novel that was in turn based of a historically-themed graphic novel by comics legend Frank Miller, Sony Pictures Digital's Yair Landau attributes it success to video games, or rather the video game generation. In an interview with Gamasutra, Landau, who oversees SOE as well as Sony Pictures Animation, explores convergence between movies and video games, using 300 as an example.
"I actually think that the phenomenon of 300 is really, in fact, a manifestation of the video game experience in kind of the collective conscience. The audience who came to see 300 was weaned on video games and what they saw in the marketing materials for 300 was a similar experience. They didn't show up because they were interested in the Spartans, or because they read Herodotus, or because they thought the Battle of Thermopylae was a great, untold story.
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338027&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ron Gilbert on 300's Game Comparison]]> In the wake of Variety calling out movie critics for likening the movie 300 to a video game in a bad way comes this short piece by the Grumpy Gamer using the movie to insult video games. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=244785&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Watch 300 Videos, Win Crackdown]]> Thankfully, you don't actually have to watch three hundred videos, you only have to watch five videos for the upcoming Spartan masterpiece, 300 for your chance to win a copy of Crackdown. Sign on to Xbox Live and download the five 300 movie clips and get the special codes from each clip. Then, head on over to the official contest page and enter the codes in any order for your chance to be one of the big winners. There will be a total of three hundred copies of the game given away (clever, eh?). Oddly enough, they aren't giving away copies of the actual 300: March To Glory PSP game. I wonder why? Hmmmm..... Flynn De Marco More »
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