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Spielberg Afraid of Over-The-Top Game Violence
Director Steven Speilberg is known for crafting some seriously intense, gut-wrenching cinematic scenes. But those are just movies! No biggie!! Games, games are different. Just hear what Spielberg has to say:
...some games are so over-the-top violent and so extraordinarily interactive that I am even afraid of them. I am not going to name names... My kids will never go in and take an R-rated DVD and play it. But there is something very compelling and different about the artwork on the box of what might be an M game that could tempt my kids... There are games that are taboo. And I won't have them on the premises. I don't want my kids saying, 'How come Dad is playing that and we can't?'
Because you're Steven Spielberg and they're not? Durrr. More »
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Boom Blox To Go Multi-Plat? "Definite Possibility"
Just because Steven Spielberg's Boom Blox is a Wii game, doesn't mean it'll only be a Wii game. Sure, it's got those Wii-specific controls, but Electronic Arts mentions that it is thinking about bringing it to other consoles. Says Amir Rahimi, the game's senior producer:
There's definitely the potential to go to other consoles. Our mindset, our philosophy was that we didn't want to taint our thinking by taking any other console into account. The way we saw it we wanted to make this the most authentic Wii experience that it could possibly be. So we didn't think about the PC, DS, PS3 or Xbox 360. We're still very much in the mindset of finishing this game. But once it's over the sky's the limit. There's definitely the possibility of going to other consoles.
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Boom Blox Interview [Videogamer]
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Boom Blox Hits Next Week, New Trailer Hits Now
I'm still a little confused about how exactly Steven Spielberg was involved in this project. I mean, was it like him drinking a copy of coffee and saying "Hey we should make a game with dominoes and shit" and then EA Casual turned it into something playable?
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Spielberg And Michael Bay Are Plotting Against Me
Uwe Boll sure as shit knows how to promote a movie. (Bummer he doesn't know how to make a movie.) With Postal coming out May 23, he's already got a 200,000 signature strong internet petition to get him to stop direction. Think Boll will stop directing? Never! About that petition, Boll says:
I tracked down who's signing that petition, and these are like a few people, getting under different identities and things in the internet and signing it over and over again. The second thing is that I was able to find that actually Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg under various different identities posting ongoing that I should stop making movies, and I know why: They are afraid of the competition. What jealous internet nerds and wannabe filmmakers are signing that petition?
Accusing Spielberg and Michael Bay of using "various identities" to take down Boll? Hilarious! Uwe goes on to show a short film apparently made by some junior high school kids that signed the petition. He then begins to berate it, but offers up this heartwarming advice: "So go out there and have your own life and make your own movies and, and then, I'm always happy to say something positive about you, your movie." So there!
His Feet Is Attached To Ze Sink [MovieSet]
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Spielberg Enjoys Playing Crysis, But Is That Enough?
You can't fault a guy for thinking the whole Steven Spielberg making video games scenario seems just a tad disingenuous. On a movie set, the director is quite possibly the hardest working, most involved person on staff. Transplanted as a game designer, they show up every once and a while to check stuff out. But at least Bloom Box producer Amir Rahimi will stick up for Spielberg's gamer cred:I was actually pretty surprised to find out how much of a gamer Steven Spielberg is.He continued: More »
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Boom Blox Dated At Nintendo Media Summit
It doesn't sound like a bunch of news has shaken out from Nintendo's Media Summit being held in San Francisco today and tomorrow, but we do finally have a release date for the Steven Spielberg brainchild Boom Blox. The puzzler with character will be hitting North America on May 6 and Europe on May 9, according to the folks at the summit.
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Steven Spielberg's Boom Blox Final Box Art
Ahhh yes, new screens and the final box art for upcoming Steven Spielberg game Boom Blox. I'm actually kind of excited to get this. Crazy, I know!
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EA Going The Extra Mile For Steven Spielberg's Game
Yes, yes. We know. Steven Spielberg plays video games. Okay, GOT IT. But one thing we are somewhat iffy about: Why is he making games for Electronic Arts? Dude could make games anywhere. EA isn't dumb, so the company wants the upcoming Wii title BOOM BLOX to be a hit. EA wants everything to work for Steven! As EA employee and BOOM BLOX executive producer Louis Castle points out, the company pulled out all the stops:
We brought in the best computer scientists and we working on analyzing the data you get from the Wii remote. That was actually a very, very difficult problem involving lots of calculus. So many Wii games record just what the Wiimote is doing without much thought about or at least computation about what it was intended by the player. We've put a lot of thought and energy into what was intended by the consumer.
It's like EA have never done a Wii title before. Think the company would be doing this for a non-Spielberg title? Hilarious!
Making Games With Steven [BBC via Go Nintendo] [Pic]
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Make Your Own Boom Blox
Can't wait to play with Spielberg's upcoming video game Boom Blox? Then play with paper! Print out the larger version of this in the link below and stare at it and think: Steven Spielberg signed off on this funny chicken.Papercrafts [cubecraft via Go Nintendo]
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Steven Spielberg's Boom Blox Debuts
The first in a series of EA and Steven Spielberg collaborations is Boom Blox, a Wii game that combines puzzle, physics and a seemingly tolerable version of Jenga into a working package. It may not be the Schindler's List of puzzle games, but we suspect Steve isn't aiming quite that high with his inaugural title. Looks good to me, but I'd certainly like to go hands-on before I drop a fifty on the thing.
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Spielberg's Boom Blox Revealed
Director Steven Spielberg's 2005 deal to create original games with EA comes a step closer to bearing fruit as they unveil their upcoming Wii title, Boom Blox. While we had a general idea and were then given a name , we now get a full reveal of Spielberg's action-puzzle game a week and a half before it shows up at GDC - and for one I am relieved. When I first heard the term block puzzle tossed about, I'm sure I wasn't alone in thinking some sort of Tetris clone. As you can see from the screen there, that's happily not the case at all.
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Yes, Steven Spielberg Really Likes Video Games, M'kay?
This one's for the doubters. Just because Steven Spielberg can make movies, that doesn't mean he can make video games. They're different! And just because he's in tune with cinema, that doesn't mean he understand games, right? Right?! Wrong, says former Dreamworks' employee and current Electronic Arts' exec Glenn Entis. Steven Spielberg is a huge gamer nerd, he points out. What's more, Entis adds:
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Spielberg's Boom Blox Will Be Featured At GDC
The game formerly known under its working title as "PQRS" will from now on be referred to as Boom Blox, as GDC overseer Jamil Moledina revealed in his blog that the EA-Steven Spielberg collaboration will have a presence at the upcoming conference. Boom Blox, in development at EA LA, has been described as an "action-puzzle simulator" and will be the focus of executive producer Lou Castle's session at the Game Developers Conference.
The session description reveals that Boom Blox, the first of the Spielberg games and designed for the Wii, was created by a small team that developed dozens of playable prototypes, ultimately resulting in "a fully cohesive, premium family game for the Wii." The con takes place the third week of February, so hopefully we'll see more of Boom Blox before then.
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Frank Darabont Talks Scary Games Like BioShock
Just because some great filmmakers (Steven Spielberg for example) are making the film-to-games leap, doesn't mean every filmmaker can — or should. VH1's Harold Goldberg mentioned how BioShock changed his notion of horror games to Frank Darabont, Oscar nominated director of The Shawshank Redemption and upcoming film The Mist. Darabont replied:
It's amazing what's being done with games today, and I'm fascinated by it. With The Mist, I hope to scare you, right, and maybe make you think. Maybe you'll talk about the ending for a while after the film's done... A horror game that's well done, though: man, that's really going to stick with you.
Was thinking about this the other day: As Hollywood and gaming keep moving closer and closer together, I really hope they don't converge. There are some filmmakers whom I hope don't make games, just as there are some game creators whom I hope stay far, far away from the director's chair.
Darabont Talks The Mist [VH1] [Image]
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The First Film License
In my last book Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames, I think I claimed that the first film to commercial videogame adaptation was Death Race 2000, a 1976 arcade game based (loosely) on the 1975 cult film Death Race, in which drivers in a dystopic America circa the then-future millennium score points for people killed. The arcade game was not an officially licensed adaptation, but it was an adaptation nonetheless. It was also reviled in the media as the first example of a controversial videogame.
But In our research for a new book about the Atari VCS, Nick Montfort and I discovered that Death Race is in fact not the first film adaptation in games. That honor goes to none other than Shark Jaws, by Atari.
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Spielberg Game Has Character From Far-Assed Future
Director Steven Spielberg is making three games for Electronic Arts. One of them is a block-puzzle game (ungh) for the Wii, and it was a result of meeting Nintendo's resident genius Shigeru Miyamoto at E3 2006. The second game is an epic adventure title for the Xbox 360, PS3 and the PC. According to EA, the game "focuses on a touching and ever-changing relationship between you and a mysterious female character who holds the key to many futures." The third game is a secret. More »
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EA Confirms Spielberg Games
Newsweek got the story out a bit early over the weekend, but today Electronic Arts officially confirmed the games that Steven Spielberg is collaborating with them on.
As an exclusive for the Wii™ from Nintendo, the first of the two projects will allow for players of all ages to compete in over a hundred challenging, action-packed interactive games that take blocks to a new level of creativity and fun for single player, co-op, and versus gameplay. Additionally, use the Wii remote to build your own fun games and structures or turn the same Wii remote into a destructive tool to bring them crashing down.The second, and more ambitious project in development, is a contemporary action-packed adventure that puts you in the leading role of an emotional journey where your actions tell the tale. Set against the backdrop of an epic story, the game focuses on a touching and ever-changing relationship between you and a mysterious female character who holds the key to many futures. The game is in development for PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360™ videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft, and PC. No ship timeframe has been disclosed.
Pretty much what we've already heard, but hit the jump for pithy quotes from Spielberg and EA LA's Neil Young.
