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Tons of games have been turned into films. Max Payne is the latest of these, and from what I’ve heard (tho’ I haven’t seen it myself yet) successfully continues the long running disappointment of games to film. Tell us which (if any) game to film you enjoyed the most and which you think was the [...]

Electronic Arts has signed a deal with the Hollywood talent representatives United Talent Agency. The deal paves the way for some of EA’s biggest titles to move into the TV and movie market. The Sims: The Movie is already in production; Dead Space has also had an animated comic/DVD too, and this deal is likely [...]

A third person, action computer game, based on the blockbuster movie WANTED, starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie, is to be released later this year. It will be published by Warner Bros. and be developed by GRIN, the development studio behind the Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter series.

It’s been talked about, but finally today, Take-Two Interactive announced that it has struck a deal with Universal Studios to bring Bioshock to the big screen. The movie will be directed by Gore Verbinski, who previously directed the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and The Ring.

The summertime movie blockbusters are as common as a rainy day in Britain, and 2008 sees the likes of Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Kung Fu Panda hitting the big screens. Of course, there are the usual video game tie-ins to go with the movies, as publishers look to top the sales charts and [...]

Pretty straight forward, real (if very cool). The BBC launched its iPlayer download service on the Wii internet channel. The iPlayer allows users to stream selected BBC programmes up to 7 days after they’ve been broadcast – it seems unlikely the PC’s ability to download programmes will be present, given the Wii’s lack of storage. [...]

I love this guy. That’s not the news, I just wanted to get it out the way. I love him for winding people up, for not taking himself or the industry too seriously, for being misunderstood, for working the system, and for Postal. If only the rest of his films weren’t so god awful. The [...]

The Golden Compass, based on the series of books by Philip Pullman, is now in the cinema. And, inevitably, there is a game out for it. A game which has a Metacritic rating of 44 (that’s the PS2 version, the highest rated of all platforms – the PC version doesn’t have enough reviews to count [...]

IO‘s most recent – and ill-received – game, Kane & Lynch, perfectly indicates gaming’s obsession with cinematic values. Time and time again we ask why games seek to compete with and copy another, entirely distinct medium. Gaming has enough of its own to offer, it need not rely on over-familiarity with its linear peer. And someone outside [...]

Thanks to a helpful post by loyal GameShadow Blog reader PJ, I can now reveal that imdb has decided there’s a Prince of Persia: Sands of Time film in the offing. What is it with these adaptations? Why do they play with us so? It’s switched direction from Michael Bay (yawn) to Mike Newell (double [...]

“You’d find that Lady Luck was really a hooker, and you were fresh out of cash.” I tend, along with most of the rest of the cinema-going public, to think films based on video games have been utter balls. The best one I can come up with so far has been Silent Hill – that’s [...]

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