There was a time when licensed games were seen as a quick cash-in and nothing more. The idea behind them was that fans of a movie, TV show or comic book would buy the game wanting to elongate their current obsession by taking control of their favourite characters in pixel form. "It'll be like I'm ET," thought naive children in 1982 only to experience an abysmal Atari game that had been stitched together in just five weeks to make the Christmas market.
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.
