Sentences with phrase «of video game writer»

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On Nov. 15 — the release date of its latest hit — Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot spoke to Canadian Business staff writer Jeff Beer about how the industry has changed in the past 25 years, where games and movies will meet and Canada's potential as a video - game powerhouse.

As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, «Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter,» the graphics, storytelling and interactivity of gaming have all made tremendous leaps forward in recent years, allowing players to intermingle with nuanced, fleshed - out digital characters in near - photo - realistic environments.

But the writers, TV and video game veterans Aaron Ginsburg and Wade McIntyre (Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, Fox's short - lived «The Good Guys»), seem content to loosely recreate the original movie's beats and not attempt anything too brazen or outrageous.

I also think the writers must have been playing a lot of Dead Rising, because the scouts» combo weapons feel as if they were definitely inspired by the video game.

The writers here at Xbox Enthusiasts are going to highlight a handful of video games that we are most excited for this year.

Written by Tom Waltz (writer of Silent Hill: Sinner's Reward, Silent Hill: Past Life and the Silent Hill Downpour video game), with artwork by Tristan Jones (Ghostbusters, Hoax Hunters).

Fans complaining over a new gameplay mechanic and the writing techniques of a recurrent story writer ushers in the second phase of the most infamous video game conspiracy theory in the history of the franchise: the Sonic Cycle.

We all knew that Hollywood had cast Dwayne Johnson in Rampage, the video game adaption from director Brad Peyton and writer Carlton Cuse, the collaborators that brought us one of 2015's biggest hits San Andreas.

Immediately noticeable in the background of high school teenager Spencer's bedroom are posters of various AAA Sony PlayStation 4 exclusives (Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Last Guardian to name a few) signaling that director Jake Kasdan (Sex Tape, Orange County, also serving as a writer on this film among a crowded bunch that get the job done successfully) and the entire filmmaking team understand video game culture.

Director Shawn Levy and writers Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney exit film adaptation of video game Minecraft (Variety).

Director Shawn Levy and writers Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney exit film adaptation of video game Minecraft

The original script by «Mortal Kombat» creator John Tobias and the first movie's producer, Lawrence Kasanoff (along with Joshua Wexler), was ditched in favor of a barebones one by b - movie horror scribe Brent V. Friedman and TV writer Bryce Zabel, who mostly ignore the video game's style in order to make the film a standalone horror - action fantasy.

Fans were unsure if the writer of «Little Miss Sunshine» and «Toy Story 3» was the right choice and apparently Abrams agreed, recently discharging Arndt and bringing on board Lawrence Kasdan, who had helped pen the screenplays for «Episode V,» «Episode VI,» «Raiders of the Lost Ark» and wrote the story for the «Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire» video game.

The first is that studio executives and / or director and writers obviously think that after a generation of the violence in video games and blockbuster movies, the old literary institutions like curiosity, innocence, mystery and wonder simply aren't enough to entertain us anymore.

All the highlights of the news from yesterday with stories on Director Shawn Levy and writers Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney exit film adaptation of video game Minecraft and HBO's standalone streaming service to make its debut in April 2015.

Deadline reports the video game company and its film partners Sony and New Regency have landed a pair of writers for the video game adaptation, Zombieland «s Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese.

As previously reported this movie will not be based on either of the manga, cartoon or video games during the titles almost 20 year existence.The script is currently being penned by Captain Marvel writer Nicole Perlman and Alex Hirsch.

Theodore (Phoenix) is a writer for BeautifulHandwrittenLettters.com, spending his days penning poetic love letters for customers» significant others and his nights playing video games and dreaming of his failed relationship with Catherine (Rooney Mara).

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You may be wondering how the writers of Need for Speed came up with a feature - length film plot from a video game franchise, but it's more simple than you'd think.

'' The pen is mightier than the sword» - Edward Bulwer - Lytton (1839) If you are a creative writer, mobile developers, blog writers, concept artist video game designer, or a graphic designer we promote and publish the artists of the day on our blog post.

I suspect we'll see a lot of school text books that try to imitate video games — mostly developed by people who, as you say, are unlikely to be writers and publishers.

I have worked as a television screenwriter for most of my adult life, and currently I'm working as a video game writer.

My 25 - year - old actor / writer / poet daughter gave my 9 - year - old video game - and soccer - playing son the Save the Story version of Antigone for Christmas last year.

Meet Samuel Andresen - Anderson: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of an online video game.

Many of today's most creatively and commercially - successful comic book writers also write video games, and are familiar with the «if this then that» tree scheme of plotting.

Alexander Zoltai presents Games for Writers (or, really, anyone posted at Notes from An Alien, saying, «With so much press about the dangers of video games, it's important to see their benefits — especially for writers...Writers (or, really, anyone posted at Notes from An Alien, saying, «With so much press about the dangers of video games, it's important to see their benefits — especially for writers...writers...»

I did a few back - of - the - envelope calculations a couple of years ago, and came up with the conclusion that the market for good books is so far from saturation that you could regard it as wide open and untapped — the competition is not from other writers, but from things like TV and video games.

I'm not a futurist, but as an indie writer with a tech background and a serious thing for video games, it's difficult for me not to think about the consumptive future of story - telling.

If you have been around for at least a few years in the gaming industry, either as a writer or just a fan of video games you know there are two fighting games that everyone mentions when asked if they can name some, one is Street Fighter the other, is Tekken.

Adam is a Senior Staff Writer for GamerAssaultWeekly with over 5 years of experience in writing and is completely obsessed with video games.

From what I» ve seen if they both produced the same work, one in video form and one written, based on the same game, the likelihood is that the Youtuber would be trusted more, while the writer might be viewed suspiciously, or accused more of being paid off or otherwise corrupted.

But writers of fiction and non-fiction have been turning out some great stuff based on video games for years now.

Tetris was far and away the consensus choice for «The Scientifically Proven Best Video Game of All Time,» with strong support from critics and other game writers over two decaGame of All Time,» with strong support from critics and other game writers over two decagame writers over two decades.

It's worth noting that the designing of video games is a collaborative process, and the video game writer is just one part of the design team.

I am a writer, and one of my goals has been to find a job writing scripts and dialogue for video games some day.

Hear from writer / director David Cage and lead actors Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe on the intricacies of the set design, and how performance capture for a video game is so different than a traditional movie shoot.

The Writers Guild of America has revealed the nominations for this year's outstanding achievement in video game writing.

The accolade will honour the game with the best script published in the last year from a writer that is part of, are has at least applied to join, the WGA Video game Writers Caucus.

I have probably already mentioned this before, but Jeremy Parish is one of my favorite video game writers / historians.

I find it interesting the «morals» of video game sites get questioned but no one has mentioned the junkets that entertainment writers get sent on for movie releases etc...

As I progressed farther into the game, I felt that the writers were trying to do the video game version of a Christopher Nolan movie.

Several years ago, another GameLuster writer remarked that Nintendo is like the Disney of video game publishers.

On - Line systems later became Sierra, and on the picture of the «sexy» cover are executives and writers from the company, to the right is Roberta Williams, famous video game designer, writer and co-founder of Sierra On - Line who created for example the King's Quest series:) This is the game that later became Leisure Suit Larry.

Hailing from not - so - jolly old England, Michael is a Freelance Writer that spends most of his days writing, playing video games or writing about the video games he's playing.

Michael Beckwith: Hailing from not - so - jolly old England, Michael is a Freelance Writer that spends most of his days writing, playing video games or writing about the video games he's playing.

And the same thing could be said of my talented colleagues — the writers, designers, editors, and incredible support staff that have weated the details every month to bring you the world's first and best official video game magazine.

MSH: So as a writer, when you went to adapt such a beloved and unique video game world like Silent Hill or like Silent Hill 3 in particular, what was the most important element of that you wanted to keep intact?

Wesley Scott is a writer and actor living on the North side of Chicago in a tiny studio apartment and spending his days playing video games, reading comic books, watching television and occasionally going to his day job when he needs a little cash.