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Elijah Wood Unveils Trailer For His VR Ubisoft Game ‘Transference’

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“Have you ever dreamed of exploring someone else’s consciousness, exploring their deep dark thoughts?” Such were Elijah Wood’s pitch today at Ubisoft’s E3 presentation at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown L.A., where he revealed an extended look at the VR game Transference he’s been in production on over the last few years under his SpectreVision genre label. The psychological thriller first-person exploration VR game, which debuts this fall, puts players into the uploaded… Read

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s HitRECord Teams With Ubisoft, Starting With Video Game ‘Beyond Good And Evil 2’

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Video game publisher Ubisoft and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s creative collaborative platform HitRECord are partnering up and inviting the latter’s online community of artists to create assets for future video games, starting with Ubisoft’s multiplayer RPG title Beyond Good and Evil 2.  Gordon-Levitt appeared onstage today at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre with Beyond Good and Evil 2 senior producer Guillaume Brunier to invite artists of every type and skill to participate in… Read

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Bad Robot And Tencent Team To Launch Bad Robot Games

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Bad Robot and China giant Tencent are teaming to launch Bad Robot Games, with the plan for the new division be the exclusive game development vehicle for, and controlled and operated by, J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot. Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has come on as a minority investor in the gaming arm, which will be run exec Dave Baronoff. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bad Robot Games will team with traditional game developers to create both large and… Read

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‘Active Shooter’ Video Game That Allows Player To Be School Shooter Will Be Removed From Valve After Being Denounced

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UPDATED, 3:51 PM: Facing harsh criticism from families of mass shooting victims as well as an online petition and negative press reports, Valve, Inc. has decided to pull the Active Shooter video game from its online gaming store, Steam. It has also removed content from publisher ACID and its game developer. A spokesperson for the Valve, Inc, just issued this statement to Deadline: We have removed the developer Revived Games and publisher ACID from Steam. This developer… Read

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Violent Video Games: Entertainment Software Assn., PTC Pile On Stats To Trump, Administration In D.C. Meeting

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It was a meeting that lasted about an hour in the White House today as a reps from both sides the issue met to discuss whether violent video games impact the behavior of children. The issue came to the table again following the Parkland, FL high school mass shooting where 17 people were murdered. Afterwards, President Trump questioned whether violent video games had some responsibility in mass shootings. Those who attended the meeting with Trump today described it as… Read

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Video Game Industry Reps Will Attend White House Meeting Over Game Violence After Trump’s Parkland Musings

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After President Donald Trump mused that violent video games could have been a key factor in the school shooting in Parkland, FL, reps from the gaming industry will head to a meeting at the White House for a more detailed discussion. The exact lineup of attendees for Thursday’s meeting is not set, but it could include execs from major publishers and developers. The Entertainment Software Association confirmed a meeting today after saying last week it had not received an… Read

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Donald Trump Points Finger At Movies, Video Games During Gun Violence Meeting

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One week after 17 students and staff were killed at a high school in Florida by a former student with an AR-17, one day after students who survived that shooting and grieving parents came to the White House and begged him to ban semi-automatic weapons like that used by the gunman – and the same day the NRA came to preach its gospel to a conservative conference in the Washington area, President Donald Trump turned his talk to Hollywood. Addressing a gathering of politicos… Read

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Warner Bros.’ Machinima Rebrands And Revamps Distribution And Talent Plan

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Now that it is fully integrated into Warner Bros.’ digital networks division, Machinima today announced a rebranding — with its longtime red-and-black logo turning green — as well as refinements to its distribution and talent strategy. The gamer brand, whose properties attract more than 140 million monthly views, is signaling its evolution from a traditional multi-channel network (MCN) to a content provider focused on the intersection of gamer culture and entertainment… Read

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Chris Columbus To Write & Direct ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ For Blumhouse

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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Columbus has signed on to write, direct and produce Blumhouse's screen adaptation of Scott Cawthon's popular video game Five Nights at Freddy's, which centers on a security guard battling animatronic robots that come to life in a Chuck E. Cheese-like venue. Blumhouse landed Five Nights at Freddy's last March when movie rights were put in turnaround by New Line. Every genre filmmaker wanted it, but Blumhouse landed the property because producer Jason Blum… Read

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Europacorp TV Studios Options ‘Ruiner’ Video Game; DJ2 To Produce

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Europacorp has made a pre-emptive move to acquire TV rights to Ruiner, a new video game title from Devolver Digital and Reikon Games. DJ2 Entertainment co-founder and CEO Dmitri M. Johnson, whose company discovered the game and partnered with Luc Besson’s Europacorp shortly after its September release, is executive producing along Besson and with DJ2’s Stephan Bugaj. Described as John Wick meets The Matrix, Ruiner is a cyberpunk action game set in a world where a brutal… Read

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‘Hitman’ Series In Works At Hulu From ‘John Wick’ Creator Derek Kolstad

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EXCLUSIVE: Fox 21 and Hulu have teamed for a television series based on Hitman, the global best-selling video game from IO Interactive. A pilot script will be written by Derek Kolstad, creator and writer of the John Wick action film series who also penned the third one that will be released in 2019. Kolstad will be an executive producer along with Adrian Askarieh and Chuck Gordon. The project will be overseen at Fox 21 by Bert Salke, Jane Francis, Gloria Fan  and Kira… Read

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Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Jumps To Paramount With Neal Moritz & Tim Miller

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Neal Moritz has made one of his first moves since landing at Paramount Pictures from his longtime Sony home, with his new studio nabbing movie rights to Sonic the Hedgehog, the iconic Sega video game franchise. The pic was set up by Moritz and Deadpool director Tim Miller at Sony in 2014 as a hybrid live-action/CG-animated feature; in the new incarnation, Mortiz and his Original Film will produce, and Miller is among the executive producers. Jeff Fowler will… Read

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