There’s a lot of video games set to get TV or film adaptations in the next few years, and even more that seem like they’d be ripe for the picking. Bungie’s Destiny franchise seemed like a viable candidate, especially after the studio was acquired by PlayStation in 2022, but it sounds like any plans to bring the games to a new medium are have currently been dashed. Will the Fallout TV Series Radiate the Tone of the Video Games? According to Forbes’ Paul Tassi earlier in the week, Bungie was reportedly “tossing around” ideas for an animated Destiny series on Netflix before things fell apart.. Allegedly, this was in development prior to the aforementioned PlayStation acquisition, during which Sony said it would help Bungie “nurture the IP they have in a multi-dimensional manner.” (For extra context, this statement was made a few weeks before the Uncharted movie released and became a decent box-office success.) In regards to why it didn’t go forward, Tassi wasn’t sure, though he did say it just may not have gone farther than the scripting phase. Destiny 2: Is There Any Way A Destiny Show Is Still Happening At This Point? Before Sony bought Bungie, the developer brought on Derrick Tsai as its transmedia head. Tsai was a producer and director at Riot who helped pave the way for Arcane to get made and become a hit over at Netflix. He departed around this time last year, after which the studio hired Warner Bros. alum Gabriel VanHuss to serve as the Destiny’s head of linear media. VanHuss holds that position to this day, and his duties involve expanding the franchise in TV, comics (which it’s previously done), movies, and so on. It’s hard to know where this hypothetical show currently stands: Bungie’s currently focused on the Final Shape expansion dropping in June, its new Marathon game, and still reeling from its highly publicized layoffs (to say nothing of possibly working on Destiny 3). According to Tassi, if the hypothetical show isn’t fully dead, it’s not coming “anytime remotely soon.” The idea of Destiny getting a TV show seemed like a cool idea two years ago, but it’s a little more dicey now. Bungie’s hoping to turn things around for both Destiny 2 and the company at large with Final Shape, and revealing a TV show weeks after the expansion drops could easily take things from “we’re so back” to “oh, it’s over” in a heartbeat. The series certainly has the potential to thrive in other mediums, but it’ll unfortunately have to be a waiting game until the smoke clears around The Final Shape. [via Eurogamer] Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who. Source link By Nakisisa George
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Love that #fallout has been successful on TV. Thought it was going to be hard to eclipse #TLOU but it seems to be on the right track. From a people perspective we are seeing more and more requests for crossover talent between interactive entertainment and broader media. It’s exciting! It also helps that our global gaming, media and sports practice is set up to support this trend! ;) #transmedia #executivesearch #interactiveentertainment #videogames
Success of Fallout proves video game adaptations have gone mainstream
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Disturbance in the Force: 505 Games (Digital Bros) GameDeveloper: 505 Games owner Digital Bros to cut 30 percent of its staff. Digital Bros' next move is to focus less on big-scale projects and more on established franchises and re-releases of already popular games." "Digital Bros, the owner of publisher 505 Games, revealed its plans to make reductions in the coming weeks across its various studios. Approximately 30 percent of its larger staff will be laid off, and the company confirmed these cuts will have "no significant impact" on its financials for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. These cuts come as Digital Bros hopes to "adapt to this new and evolving competitive scenario" of players being "more selective in terms of new games. Consumers [are] increasingly reverting to well established Intellectual Properties and playing these same games for longer periods." The implication here is the company's most recent games may not have hit their intended individual sales targets. Among 505's releases for 2023 include Ghostrunner II from October, spring's Crime Boss: Rockay City, and Miasma Chronicles from May. As far as what specific studios or departments would be impacted, no specifics were given. However, Digital Bros noted its various subsidiaries will bear the brunt of these layoffs. Moving forward, the company will focus on releasing sequels and new versions of previously released (and successful) titles, while also releasing "a limited number of new larger budgets productions. [...] To prioritize high-quality and long-standing successful titles, [we have] reconsidered the number of projects under development." At time of writing, Digital Bros' press release makes no mention of projects being canceled or studios closing down. Publishing-wise, 505's immediate future includes Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes, Control 2, and the latter's multiplayer spinoff currently dubbed Project Condor." GameDeveloper: https://lnkd.in/gQNji4kU ----- "505 Games Parent Company Digital Bros Laying Off 30 Percent Of Staff" GameInformer: https://lnkd.in/g4AAtz_3
505 Games owner Digital Bros to cut 30 percent of its staff
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Why did we choose NetEase Games, what does stepping out of our comfort zone mean, what kind of game are we making, what are our plans for the studio to grow? In case you missed it, last week David Vonderhaar sat down with GamesIndustry.Biz to answer all these questions, and more. https://lnkd.in/grm8RbMj 🗣 "I was really, really impressed by the NetEase ecosystem, the totality of everything behind you that supports you.” 🗣 "Running a studio is not the same thing as designing one part of a video game. You have to think about everything all the time." 🗣 “[Our game] is a co-op first-person shooter, and it's not going to be about killing a lot of people all the time. It's more nuanced than that." 🗣 "I feel like the pressure should be on the people who are not trying to innovate, not the people that are trying to." #BulletFarm #NetEaseGames #Gaming
Call of Duty's David Vonderhaar on stepping out of his comfort zone with new studio BulletFarm
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Hogwarts Legacy was released on Feb 10, 2023. It has now sold 22 Million copies in just 11 months. Expect a LOT more Harry Potter from WBD. WBD and WBIE are now all about the franchises, and live service, and games as a service. ----- "‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Sold 22 Million Copies in 2023: Warner Bros. Discovery Games Boss Talks Year’s Top-Selling Title and What’s Next" (Jennifer Maas) "“Hogwarts Legacy” crossed 22 million copies sold by the end of 2023, with approximately 2 million of those units selling during the December holiday season, according to Warner Bros. Games. With all that time and money and magic spent on the game, Haddad and Co. are already working on follow-up additions to the Potterverse’s video game world. That includes the previously announced title featuring Quidditch (the wizard sport that was left out of “Hogwarts Legacy,” to fans’ chagrin), which is currently in the beta-testing phase, but also “a series of other things” that are currently unannounced and “will let the fans be part of this world and stories and characters in deeper and deeper ways,” Haddad says. But the Harry Potter games are far from the only focus at Warner Bros. Games, where marching orders from on high, namely streaming and gaming chief J.B. Perrette, WBD CEO David Zaslav and even CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels, has been to prioritize Warner Bros. franchises and IP above all else in the pursuit of global gaming domination. Aside from “Hogwarts Legacy,” the biggest example of that in 2023 was “Mortal Kombat 1,” which launched Sept. 14. Haddad says that game release garnered “more players for that franchise” across all of the studio’s available “Mortal Kombat” games, including mobile games, than they have “ever had before in its 30-plus year history.” Coming up, Warner Bros. Games will be launching “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League” on Feb. 2, which Haddad calls “one of our most ambitious projects ever,” and the wide release for free-to-play brawler game “MultiVersus,” which features Warner Bros.-owned characters ready to battle. Looking ahead further, the studio has a single-player open-world action Wonder Woman game in the works, as well as games that will be canon additions to James Gunn and Peter Safran’s planned relaunch of the DC Universe. “A very consistent message coming from the executive layer of Warner Bros. Discovery is the importance of franchises,” Haddad said. “There’s a unique and important role games have in keeping our franchises relevant, resonant and exciting because there’s plenty of fans and plenty of people consuming content where games are their starting point, it’s their preferred form of content.” Haddad says the path to that is “the accumulation of keeping live games launched with new content, keeping our mobile games services vibrant, and large launching new content.” Variety: https://lnkd.in/ehHkf7h5 #gameindustry #videogames #gamepublishing #warnerbros #wbd #wbie #liveservice #gamesasaservice #gaas
‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Sold 22 Million Copies in 2023: Warner Bros. Discovery Games Boss Talks Year’s Top-Selling Title and What’s Next (EXCLUSIVE)
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From Variety: In the two years since Netflix launched its first games, the company has assembled a collection of 80-plus titles — but only a handful of those have been based on the streamer’s #TV shows or movies, like a “Stranger Things” puzzle game and a “Queen’s Gambit” chess app. Now Netflix is bringing out four new exclusive games, each based on popular originals on the service, betting that the titles will play big among fans of those #entertainment franchises. The lineup includes “Chicken Run: Eggstraction,” from U.K. animation studio Aardman (Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep), set after the events that take place in made-for-Netflix movie “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget“; an interactive-fiction game tied to hit series “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”); narrative role-playing game “Shadow and Bone: Enter the Fold,” based on the fantasy series; and “The Dragon Prince: Xadia,” an RPG based on the animated show. Netflix’s strategy with its #games portfolio is still to provide a broad smorgasbord of genres and gameplay formats, on the theory that they provide a value-add to the core video subscription, said Leanne Loombe, VP, head of external games at Netflix. But it’s now leaning more heavily toward games based on Netflix shows and movies, as well as recognizable gaming franchises, she said. That’s after the company saw games for Netflix originals, specifically reality TV hits “Too Hot to Handle” and “Love Is Blind,” perform above expectations. Loombe noted that the “Chicken Run” and “Dragon Prince” games are come from the same studios that created the Netflix originals. Overall, the scale of Netflix’s games and its investment in the sector “is still relatively small,” Loombe said, comparing it to the early days of the company’s original TV and #film production. Netflix tries to synchronize the release of a game with a related show or movie but “it’s not always possible to do day and date,” Loombe said. #gaming #streaming
Netflix Launching Games Tied to Originals ‘Chicken Run,’ ‘Dragon Prince,’ ‘Shadow and Bone,’ ‘Money Heist’
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Disturbance in the Force: Deviation Games (Sony) Nothing is safe. Anything can be on the chopping block. ----- 2024: GamesIndustryBiz: "PlayStation-backed Deviation Games closes. The studio had been developing an original IP for PlayStation before it was cancelled" (Christopher Dring) (March 9, 2024) "New AAA game developer Deviation Games is closing, the studio announced. It was formed in 2020 by Jason Blundell and Dave Anthony, two development veterans best known for the Call of Duty: Black Ops franchise. By 2021 it had over 100 employees, and the studio signed a deal with PlayStation to create an original AAA IP for the company. But the project hit challenges. Blundell left the developer in 2022, and then in May last year the company went through a significant round of lay-offs. "It is with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of Deviation Games," chief HR and operations officer Kriste Stull announced on LinkedIn. "I want to express my deepest gratitude to our entire team. Thank you for all your hard work, dedication, and contributions to Deviation; I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have worked with each and every one of you. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz in 2021, Dave Anthony spoke enthusiastically about their PlayStation partnership. "It's absolutely mind-blowing. For us, we have never been in a situation like this before, where we've got everything we could possibly ask for. From day one of the studio we have complete financial security for years and years to come. "Now, with this partnership with Sony, we can be ourselves. And not only that, when we bring people into the studio, we can promise them that this is our culture. And we can fearlessly create and innovate and be groundbreaking." GamesIndustryBiz: https://lnkd.in/g2iHVU5H ----- "Deviation Games: "PlayStation has a culture where it's fearless to create" The Call of Duty veterans and Sony's Hermen Hulst discusses the new studio and their partnership" (Christopher Dring) (June 14, 2021) The company revealed its partnership with Deviation Games on another new IP. Deviation is a new team led by Call of Duty: Black Ops leaders Dave Anthony and Jason Blundell. Blundell adds: "Just to make Hermen Hulst, (PlayStation Worldwide Studios) blush a bit more. Sony's background, its facilities, the things that it opens up to us has been amazing. I don't want to give away the secret sauce, but Sony has the ability to speak to game developers in a way that we're used to talking. That's really where the magic happens. Not only do we have all these facilities, and this history of game development at Sony, but also they can speak in the way that we speak. And they know how to deal with imagination and how to embrace risk and how to manage it." https://lnkd.in/gbAZvvsc #gameindustry #videogames #gamedev #gamelayoffs #disturbanceintheforce #sony
PlayStation-backed Deviation Games closes
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Fallout 4 launched in 2015. Today, it's the #1 game in Europe. To achieve that, it had to hit a 7,500% week over week gain. There were also THREE other Fallout games in the top 10. Transmedia, FTW. #1 - Fallout 4 #2 - Helldivers 2 #3 - EA Sports FC 24 #4 - GTA V #5 - CoD MW3 #6 - Red Dead 2 #7 - Hogwarts Legacy #8 - Fallout 76 (2018) #9 - Fallout: New Vegas (2010) #10 - Fallout 3 (2008) ...people who were born when Fallout 3 came out...are driving now. ...and, not to be overlooked: Fallout Shelter (mobile, 2015) hit #7 on the US iOS free games chart (highest ranking since 2018)...and showed dramatic increases: Revenue: $80,000/day (up from $20,000 pre-TV series) Downloads: 60,000/day (up from 20,000 pre-TV series) Quick History: One of the many reasons that transmedia didn't work so well in the past, is because all too often, there was a belief that the game and the movie/show needed to be released at the same time in order to maximize impact. That's not what happened. What happened: The movie/show had a hard, immovable premier date. Someone printed posters...therefore, it was locked. This was often way sooner than a good game could be built...so either an existing game would get re-skinned, the scope of the game was massively reduced, or the game got launched before it was fully baked...and you got runny brownies. The most recent (full) Fallout game was launched in 2018...yet here we are. Last of Us 2 came out in 2020...but HBO's brilliant series launched in 2023. League of Legends came out in 2009...Netflix posted Arcane in 2021. Btw...lest anyone forget, Arcane's first two episodes premiered on Twitch...to over 7MM viewers. Over 5,000 channels co-streamed it. Transmedia done right...is not about tying day-and-date launches. It's about ensuring quality production at both ends, knowing (and truly caring about) your source content...and knowing (and truly caring about) your audience. Congrats to Prime Video & Amazon Studios...congrats to Bethesda Game Studios...congrats to gamers and viewers. Now...when is Season 2...and when is Fallout 5? ...hopefully, not the same day. https://lnkd.in/gqw-PnKY
Fallout 4 jumps to No.1 across Europe following TV show launch
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Great insights from #transmedia pioneers @ Skybound on how to maintain appeal while adapting an interactive medium like #videogames into a passive one like #Films/TV #series. Goldman highlights how paramount intrinsic game and show quality are to the initiative's success, and how day & date transmedia releases do not necessarily serve the wider franchise and may even be detrimental to multiplayer social games / live service #IPs a la #Fallout. A few personal favorites: - "Focus on the bedrock of [your] franchise – the video games themselves – before seeking expansion elsewhere. [...] If you don't have an awesome game, you don't have any advantage in making a TV show compared to any completely original pitch from somebody else. " - "There's this concept of ‘primary and ancillary’ but you can't think that way anymore – everything is primary. [...] If you have a great show and you make an okay game, the gamers are going to roast you, and if you have a great game and you make an okay show, no one's gonna watch it." Looking forward to future developments in that space! Full article available here: https://lnkd.in/e3Z5U_gd #entertaintment #marketresearch #gaming #movies #franchises
Skybound predicts video game TV and movie love-in could last for ten years
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Congrats Crash Bandicoot. 20 million copies from 2017 to 2024 is phenomenal. it might even be N. Sane. This is across PC/Steam, Switch, PS4, and XB1. No current gen consoles and its still selling. Sidenote Sony's 1990s PS1 era mascot went from Universal to Vivendi to Activision to Microsoft. And a new Crash bandicoot? It would benefit Microsoft Xbox the most to cross publishing it on all of PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo platforms. Publishing rights are strange things. ----- Wikipedia: "The series was originally produced by Universal Interactive, which later became known as Vivendi Games; in 2008, Vivendi merged with Activision, which currently owns and publishes the franchise." Wikipedia Crash: https://lnkd.in/gEGqydaH Wikipedia Crash Trilogy: https://lnkd.in/gkFy6sWQ ----- Game Developer: "Crash N. Sane Trilogy sales jump to 20 million copies At this point, the N. Sane Trilogy may be the best-selling Crash game across the character's almost 30-year history." The Crash Bandicoot series keeps going strong, as the Crash N. Sane Trilogy has now sold 20 million copies. Activision Blizzard's been cagey on the game's performance since it sold 10 million copies in 2019. But the new milestone shows it's still drawing people in, and it may be the most successful Crash title ever. In April, a Toys for Bob developer quietly revealed the studio's sequel, Crash 4: It's About Time, sold 5 million copies since its 2020 launch. Depending on the the game, earlier entries (per individual Wikipedia pages), reportedly sold between 1 and 6 million copies. Why has N. Sane done so well? Being remasters of the original three games helps, given the nostalgia held for those original PlayStation titles, as does them going on sale on a continuous basis. The game's sales may also be caught up in Toys for Bob's recent split from Activision Blizzard: whatever its next project is, there's an audience that would very much like Crash to return to his uncompromised, single-player platformer roots. With Crash now under Microsoft's control and dormant franchises like Fable and Perfect Dark (and Prince of Persia over at Ubisoft) getting a second shot, players are now doing their best to get the bandicoot back in the spotlight." Game Developer: https://lnkd.in/gerx_4S7 #gameindustry #crashbandicoot #gamedev
Crash N. Sane Trilogy sales jump to 20 million copies
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Ermmmm .... isn't the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League a AAA live service game that sucked because of its bad live service experience? "Perrette said Warner wants to take a more "holistic approach" with its four core franchises—Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and DC—with a particular focus on "expanding into the mobile and multi-platform free-to-play space, which could give us a much better and more consistent set of revenue." To that end, Warner has a number of free-to-play mobile games set to roll out later this year." Okay, but hey, wasn't SS:KtJL a AAA live service game that bombed? What lessons were learnt there? "Despite the growing exhaustion in some quarters with the live-service model, it also figures prominently in Warner's plans: "Rather than just launching a one-and-done console game, how do we develop a game around, for example, Hogwarts Legacy or Harry Potter, that is a live service, where people can come in and live and work and build and play in that world on an ongoing basis?" Nope, they learnt nothing. "Speaking at the recent Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference, Warner Bros Discovery executive JB Perrette said the company wants to expand more into free-to-play and live service games in order to avoid the "volatile" ups and downs of big-budget game releases." Baldur's Gate 3: Strong writing, thousands of possible endings. SS:KtJL is linear as hell. Helldivers 2: How to make live service co-op work. (I mean like have you seen it???? SS:KtJL is also strong graphically, with okay game play .... when it works, when you get in and doesn't crash on you) So WB is put off by the price tag of putting in AAA effort vs just putting in AAA money; and has a knee jerk reaction by putting their faith in Freemium, Pay2win, Microtransactions games with low cost, low risk - and probably very low quality of engagement. Now this is not a bad overall approach, Games Workshop used this approach to their portfolio of assets. And they had some good hits, AND many duds. And it is usually the AA games that make it.
Warner Bros aims to increase focus on free-to-play and live service games because 'disappointments' like Suicide Squad make the big-budget business 'very volatile'
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