Hollywood Courting the Gaming Industry

beatleadam writes "In a trend that we all seem to already be hyper-aware of... 'The video game industry was once an afterthought in Hollywood, at most an ancillary source of revenue like action figures. The people passionately developing the computer-based form of entertainment were seen as dorks compared with the celebrities. Not anymore. Now that games have matured into a $11 billion business, topping movie box-office sales and siphoning television viewers, the lucrative and increasingly influential genre has attracted more star power than ever.'" We did another story about this a month ago.

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Vice City

[thebra]

Ray Liotta .... Tommy Vercetti (voice)
William Fichtner .... Ken Rosenberg (voice) (as Bill Fichtner)
Tom Sizemore .... Sonny Forelli (voice)
Dennis Hopper .... Steve Scott (voice)
Burt Reynolds .... Avery Carrington (voice)
Robert Davi .... Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez (voice)
Gary Busey .... Phil Cassidy (voice)

To name a few from GTA:Vice City and I thought it made the game funnier.

bull$hit

[The Lynxpro]

"In a trend that we all seem to already be hyper-aware of... 'The video game industry was once an afterthought in Hollywood, at most an ancillary source of revenue like action figures. The people passionately developing the computer-based form of entertainment were seen as dorks compared with the celebrities. Not anymore. Now that games have matured into a $11 billion business, topping movie box-office sales and siphoning television viewers, the lucrative and increasingly influential genre has attracted more star power than ever.'"

Does anyone not know the history of the videogame industry on Slashdot? Try 1976. That was the year Warner Communications (think Warner Bros. Pictures) purchased Atari, Inc. By the early 1982, Atari accounted for 3/4's of Warner's profits. So in your analysis, you are 22 years off on the video game industry's importance to Hollywood.