Trigger Happy
he would a film, “to provide an emotional heart to the game.” And it doesn’t stop there: the rock star’s involvement extends to being a digitized character in the game itself.
Videogames also extend their silvery tentacles into the worlds of film and books. Star Wars director George Lucas has had his own videogames division, the widely respected LucasArts, for many years; Sega put up a chunk of the budget for David Cronenberg’s movie eXistenZ; and in summer 2001, Japanese software giant Square released Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, an $80 million
Meanwhile, thriller novelist Tom Clancy now writes scenarios for videogames produced by his own company, Red Storm, so that eventually his paperbased products may be demoted to the status of
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