Sentences with phrase «games franchise director»

Not exact matches

According to Sam Cooper, senior director for Call of Duty in Activision's marketing department, in today's video game business, any successful «AAA» franchise is as focused on post-launch engagement with fans as with the actual launch of the game.

Game design director Falko Poiker told Now Gamer that the goal behind Revelations was to set up the franchise for Assassin's Creed III.

The anticipated sequel will instead launch in 2018, with franchise director Kazutoki Kono attributing the delay to needing more time to «perfect and optimise» the game.

The «Mama» director is venturing into franchise territory for the first time with a video game adaptation

Other films playing are It Follows, which caused a stir earlier this year at Cannes; Jermaine Clement & Taika Waititi's vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows; Kevin Smith's Tusk; [REC]: Apocalypse, the fourth entry in the hit Spanish franchise, and Big Game, the new film from the director of past TIFF film Rare Exports starring Samuel L. Jackson as the president.

We learned back in January that director Todd Phillips and stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, and Justin Bartha were all game to return for one last entry in The Hangover franchise.

Together with Donald Mustard, the creative director at Epic Games, Joe and his brother Anthony developed the game mode to celebrate both franchises.

«The Incredibles franchise, full of super-powered characters, adventures and teamwork, combined with all of the humor, puzzle - solving elements and unexpected surprises of LEGO games makes for the perfect combination for players,» said Tom Stone, the Managing Director of TT Games Publishing.

Andrew Alfonso, localization director for Capcom games like the Monster Hunter franchise, is a big fan of memes.

«The Incredibles franchise, full of super-powered characters, adventures and teamwork, combined with all of the humor, puzzle - solving elements and unexpected surprises of Lego games makes for the perfect combination for players,» Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games Publishing, said.

Sitting for the franchise's last convention panel, director Francis Lawrence was joined by his three leads and fellow cast members like «Game of Thrones» star Natalie Dormer and Woody Harrelson.

But a lot of weight is given to whether a game's creative director came from a writing background, as many of the best narrative - driven franchises, like BioShock, feature creative directors in that vein.

in all three games, and as franchise producer Simon Kinberg confirmed last week they are meeting with directors.

Judgment day looms for Terminator fans, as Paramount Pictures and director Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones, Thor: The Dark World) work toward casting the sci - fi franchise's fifth installment.

Director Peter Berg has had to suffer comparisons to Michael Bay and that other movie franchise based on a Hasbro board game, but in this case, it's an accurate comparison.

«The Incredibles franchise, full of super-powered characters, adventures and teamwork, combined with all of the humour, puzzle - solving elements and unexpected surprises of LEGO games makes for the perfect combination for players,» said Tom Stone, Managing Director at TT Games Publishing.

DOA: Dead or Alive (June 22, The Weinstein Company) Starring: Devon Aoki, Jaime Pressly, Brian J. White, Kevin Nash, Sarah Carter, Silvio Simac, Holly Valance, Derek Boyer, Natassia Malthe, Matthew Marsden, Robin Shou Director: Corey Yuen Rating: PG - 13 The Pitch: Based on the bestselling game franchise about a group of female fighters in a competition to the death.

Devil's Third is an action game that combines elements of melee combat — as per director Itagaki's previous work on the critically - acclaimed post-reboot Ninja Gaiden franchise — and cover - based shooting from both third - and first - person perspectives.

Liam Hoofe takes a look at potential actors for the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid movie... Jordan Vogt - Roberts, director of Kong: Skull Island, confirmed this month that he is committed to making the «truest, most balls to the wall, Metal Gear version» of Metal Gear Solid, the popular game franchise which looks finally set to -LSB-...]

Less than half - an - hour earlier, Hideo Kojima, one of the creators of the Metal Gear franchise and director of the game, was up on the same stage to accept a Hall of Fame award from friend and colleague Guillermo del Toro.

Now playing is DreamWorks» take on the Fast & Furious franchise as the video game adaptation Need for Speed, made by stuntman - turned - director Scott Waugh (of Act of Valor), starring Aaron Paul from «Breaking Bad» and Dominic Cooper from The Devil's Double and Captain America.

But with «Chronicle» director Josh Trank working on a version of acclaimed game «Shadow Of The Colossus,» things might be looking up, and now another serious name has come on to take a role both in front of and behind the camera with a big - screen take on one of the most acclaimed and best - selling game franchises of the last few years.

«We were delighted by the reception that the highly - acclaimed F1 2017 game received, and are extremely excited to be able to further build on such a strong starting point with F1 2018,» said Paul Jeal, F1 Franchise Director at Codemasters.

WHY: Hollywood has a pretty awful track record with video game adaptations, so when it was announced that director Duncan Jones would be bringing the mega-popular «Warcraft» franchise to the big screen, many people believed that he would finally break the curse.

The director had recently signed on to another installment of the «Game Change» franchise at HBO, this time a miniseries based on an upcoming book about the 2016 presidential election from from Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.

Also included is Takashi Shimizu who is the director of the Ju - on film franchise and it's adaptation, The Grudge where he will be working as a creative producer and filming a live - action teaser for the game.

It's hard to imagine a less exciting Lara Croft movie than what directors Simon West and Jan De Bont cooked up at the turn of the century, but «Tomb Raider» 2018 comes worryingly close — especially in its third act — distilling a routinely rousing video game franchise into its least essential cutscenes.

The whole thing looks and feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to ape the Resident Evil movies, another franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.

«I've always known that Iron Sky needed a proper video game around the franchise, one where the whole complexity of the world of Iron Sky could be examined,» says director Timo Vuorensola, who admits being an avid gamer himself.

As we reported back in September, The Secret World developer Funcom recently hired a new Game Director for the MMO franchise in the form of Joel Bylos, a longtime designer at the company who had the opportunity to take on new roles.

«For the single player, it is true that the dev period was short but many factors made it possible,» said mission director Gaelec Simard, adding that included in those «factors» were the engine that powered the second game in the franchise and the team itself which has virtually been the same since the original game.

Matt Tieger, creative director on the game has said that the publishing giant is «in talks» with Hasbro to make more titles, and that Hasbro themselves are «considering» moving the franchise deeper into the realms of gaming.

«We're delighted to be forming this new partnership with SEGA, and bringing new games in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise to Nintendo systems,» said Laurent Fischer, Managing Director of European Marketing and PR at Nintendo of Europe.

Lego The Incredibles has recently been announced, bringing the beloved franchise to the Lego world, and while we were in London to see the title recently we spoke with game director Pete Gomer, who talked to us a little bit about how Pixar supported the project.

The game's director, Jack Mamais, has been in leading roles for game franchises like Crysis, Far Cry, MechWarrior 2, and Heavy Gear 2, while David Wessman, the Senior Producer (& Evangelist), worked as gameplay and story lead on the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter series, as well as working on games like Blood Wake, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, and even Saints Row.

Anna - Marie Mason, Marketing Director at GAME says: «Halo is one of the best loved franchises in the gaming world and we know how excited fans are to get back into the shoes of Master Chief.

Ben Throop After spending 15 years in AAA at Sony working on the Syphon Filter franchise, and then at Activision as a Game Director, Ben struck out on his own to in 2014.

BLACKROOM ™ reunites game lead John Romero and art director Adrian Carmack, who co-founded id Software and co-created some of the industry's seminal video game franchises, including Wolfenstein, DOOM and Quake.

They are led by Creative Director David Sears who, for those of you outside of the SOCOM camp that may not know, was the creative director of both SOCOM 1 & 2; widely regarded as the best games in the frDirector David Sears who, for those of you outside of the SOCOM camp that may not know, was the creative director of both SOCOM 1 & 2; widely regarded as the best games in the frdirector of both SOCOM 1 & 2; widely regarded as the best games in the franchise.

Between night shoots in South Africa, director Roar Uthaug agreed to an exclusive early interview about his adaptation of the popular video game franchise.

Having worked on the franchise since 1995, the director of the latest games is one of the people who knows the franchise better than most.

Jaki, Witcher Franchise Director, CD PROJEKT RED and special guest — video game journalist Geoff Keighley.

Siobhan Reddy is studio director at Media Molecule, the developer behind Sony Computer Entertainment's bestselling LittleBigPlanet game franchise.

According to Matt McCloskey, director of franchise business management at developer 343 Industries, the series» goal is «to make Halo accessible for people who haven't played the games.»

In a recent Tweet, Bioware studio director Yanick Roy has said that the next game in the Mass Effect franchise is «somewhere in the middle» of development.

«This year marks the greatest leap forward in a generation for the NCAA Football franchise,» says EA Sports marketing director Randy Chase, «The inclusion of the Infinity Engine and several new gameplay features make this year's game feel incredibly fresh and authentic, and the introduction of Ultimate Team will give fans the chance to take the field with some of the most well - known players of all time.»

Michael Pattison, Senior Marketing Director of Capcom Europe, had this to say of Monumental Games, «[I am] confident they are the right choice to create a game that will both satisfy existing fans and bring newcomers to the franchise.»

In attendance was Robert Altman, the CEO of ZeniMax Media, publishers of the Fallout, Doom, and Wolfenstein game franchises (Robert Trump, the president's younger brother, serves on the board of directors of ZeniMax and was originally expected to attend Thursday's meeting).

How it fits in the larger scheme of Dark Souls lore (based on what game director Hidetaka Miyazaki has said that the game's two pieces of DLC will effectively close the book on this franchise) is up to those intrepid theorists that scrounge every inch of the content for lore.

The director of the Super Smash Bros. series of games is still having shoulder problems after the newly released games in the franchise, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, as he revealed in his column in the Weekly Famitsu.