Chella Ramanan from GiN writes:
"Comic book writers and Hollywood screenwriters are being hailed as the saviours of the industry. If a game's got a proper writer on board – you know one of those guys from the latest convoluted TV plot-line being stretched into a seven season show, when really it only had enough interesting material for two – then you know it's going to have a great story and dialogue. Or is it?
The games industry seems to be intent on borrowing talent from other fields, rather than developing its own experts. Yeah, yeah, there are crossover elements. Films have pictures, so do games and comics are like storyboards for movies, ergo film and TV writers will be able to write for games."
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
