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Molyneux Talks Microsoft and Alien Abduction
Game site Kikizo has an interview up the legendary Peter Molyneux (Fable, The Movies) in which the designer dishes on Microsoft's acquisition of his Lionhead Studios. So things must have gotten worse, right? With Peter Moore sneaking around and all, constantly taking off his shirt to show staffers his 24-inch guns. Not so, says the Lionhead leader. More »
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The Movies' Site Ready for Its Close-Up
VH1's new game site, Game Break, points out that Lionhead has freshened up their Movies site. The make-over is in preperation for The Movies upcoming expansion pack Stunts and Effects, which hits on June 6. The relaunch includes giving The Movies movie-makers the ability to market and promote their Sim-like films with posters. The site will also have new categories for films made with the expansion pack. Finally, people who buy the expansion pack will get their site disk space bumped up from 10 megs to 25 megs. So far the site is host to almost 90,000 movies, which, if played back-to-back, would take 196 days to watch. That and the ability to stomach an endless stream of cliche-ridden blockbuster knock-offs. More »
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Lionhead: Yes, There Will Be Some Redundancies
Following the public's cool reception of both The Movies and Black & White 2, it appears that Lionhead Studios is slimming down. Gamasutra is reporting that the Peter Molyneux founded studio is undergoing an organizational restructuring plan, resulting in the reduction of a number of Lionhead staffers, and the elimination of a third of its internal development teams. More »
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Console Movies Still in the Works
Contrary to original reports, Worth Playing reports that Lionhead Studios issued a statement today that said they are still in fact prepping The Movies for release on home consoles. Activision dismissed the game from its console line-up, but Lionhead apparently expects someone else to publish the console version. The return of easy mode machinima! More »
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The Movies Canned for Consoles
The console versions of The Movies have been canned, according to Gamersmark. Activision says they decided to pull the plug on the inventive title because the PC version didn't do well enough. More »
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Wired All About The Movies
There's not one, but two pieces up over at Wired about the machinima-enabling movie simulator. The first, a review of the game, looking at the mechanics and the "how" of the game's functionality. The second piece concerns the actual creation of machinima within the game and how popular the machinima community surrounding The Movies has become. Our impressions of the machinima-tool-meets-The Sims can be found here. More »
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"Virtual Film" Festival at Sundance
Those of you planning to attend the Sundance Film Festival this year may want to check out the "Chrysler in the Movies: Virtual Film Competition." It's a contest in which the participants make a film with Activision's The Movies and upload it for consideration. Hmm, that might make it a legitimate business reason for me to attend. What do you say, Nick? More »
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Wearing John Malkovich
You know it's a slow news day when publishers start sending out emails about the clothes in a game. More »
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Molyneux Talks About Famed Machinima
Activision sent out a missive today tooting their own horn about the excellent machinima The French Democracy. We first wrote about this last month, after Clive Thompson pointed it out. The machinima, created with The Movies, is a short about the riots in France that uses the dramatized lives of three black French citizens who follow different paths but all end up rioting. More »
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Ironically, The Movies Not So Machinima-Friendly
Clickable Culture has a lengthy look at some terms and conditions that The Movies has when submitting content to Lionhead for its gallery of user created films. Basically, the rights to the films and their "additional content" (user-created, original content) goes to Lionhead. Ouch.
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The Movies Movies
The official fan sharing site for The Movies hasn't been up that long, but there are already 3,400 gamer-created movies available to watch. If you haven't heard about this PC game, it's a blast. It's basically a sim that also allows you to make your own very robust machinima. Check out some of The Movies fan favorites over on the site. More »
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I've been slowly working my way through the mammoth stack of games on my desk and had a chance to play around with The Movies over the weekend. I haven't played it nearly enough to write my full review yet, but certainly enough to know that it's a great game. It was really delightful to watch the efforts of my fledgling studio: A black and white silent "film" that lasted all of 30 seconds and showed a woman trying to live a huge barbell.
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The Movies Impressions
I've been slowly working my way through the mammoth stack of games on my desk and had a chance to play around with The Movies over the weekend. I haven't played it nearly enough to write my full review yet, but certainly enough to know that it's a great game. It was really delightful to watch the efforts of my fledgling studio: A black and white silent "film" that lasted all of 30 seconds and showed a woman trying to live a huge barbell.
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Lights, Camera, Action! Movies is Golden
It's fitting that it's not words, but an image that announces Lionhead Studios upcoming game The Movies has gone gold. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. More »
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Auteurs Unite at The Movies Online
Lionhead Studios and Activision announced plans to create a community for the November release The Movies. The Movies Online will be a place for directors to upload and show their films to the community. There will be a variety of awards and film festivals taking place throughout the game's lifespan (assuming all goes well at retail). The Movies is obviously a platform for the creation of machinima, hell the entire game is built on crafting movies. The Movies if done correctly could spawn an entire subculture of movie-making within the game's engine. Let's hope the game itself is as customizable and flexible as it is ambitious. More »
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Start Casting for The Movies
The Movies isn t due out until November, but you can get a head start on casting your films. The company is releasing a free stand-alone character builder called StarMaker which allows you to create your virtual actors and import them into the game when it is released. Right now the only place you can get it is with a Best Buy preorder, but word is that the company will soon be releasing it on their website for download. More »
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