And from the stupid, clueless Hollywood celebrity quote department, Mr. James Cameron:

"It turns out films and MMOs are not that different," explained Cameron's pal Landau. "That shouldn't be too surprising though. After all, what we do as filmmakers is create virtual worlds. Both our industries build experiences that have the same goals."

Yeah, yeah. Whatever chuckles. If Titanic and Eve Online are on the same wavelength, so is World of Warcraft and House of Leaves. I mean, if commonality is achieved simply by both trying to create "virtual worlds" (whatever he means by that) then MMOs are the same as all art! Which is convenient.

Obviously, the difference between an MMO and Titanic is pretty obvious. For one, a game is more interactive than a film. I am not a person that will argue that games are the only interactive mode of art — I simply don't agree. But it is certainly the only mode where the audience can have any control over the actions taking place in art, although I do believe that a reader, listener, viewer does have an intellectual and emotional interaction with an artist that qualifies all art as interactive. But the most important element of an MMO is the social element, which all other forms of art wholly lack. There is no novel you can read where you interact in real-time with other readers, portrayed as characters in their own work. Same as film.

It's just disingenuous fluff, but I'm at the pub, there's no wifi (despite expectations to the contrary!), and I sometimes like giving my confused thoughts on these things. Florian Eckhardt

Edit: From the overworked, underpaid department: obviously, Cameron didn't say this. It says it right in the quote. His buddy Jon Landau did. I'm not sure how to fix the post without just slapping myself in the middle of the forehead and loudly enunciating, "Duhhhhhhh..."

Titanic director talks games [Eurogamer]