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MMOGs With Television, Movie Add-Ons

Posted by Zonk on from the omg-bbq dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek has an exclusive interview with James Cameron. In it, the director reveals plans to design a massively-multiplayer online game (MMOG) alongside his next film, Project 880. There's also exclusive news that Ron Howard's upcoming reality show, XQuest, will have an MMOG component. Gamers will be able to interact with the contestants in the show (the game will be similar to Eve Online), and winners at home will be in the next season's show."

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  1. Useless by Uukrul · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is going to be a new MMO that is going to be a the best ever....
    Why they bother to make another one?

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    My city: Barcelona.
  2. Re:Point of no Return by lxs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Industry executives obviously missed the memo spelling out the fact that you can't have everyone playing every MMORPG out there - it just isn't gonna happen.

    We got the memo alright, but the GREAT NEWS is that EVERYONE is going to play OUR GAME. Dave in marketing told me so himself.

  3. Re:TFA crashes internet exploder by gronofer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try telnet to port 80. Mature software doesn't crash.

  4. well... by DiscoNick · · Score: 3, Funny

    Better James Cameron than Uwe Boll!

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  5. The Most Dangerous Game by jabelar · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about this then? -- a Survivor like reality show where armed robots hunt the humans and are controlled over the internet as part of a first-person shooter multiplayer online game. Then people would realize that the most dangerous animal is really teenagers with computers ...

  6. Re:Movie based games by flyingsquid · · Score: 2, Funny
    When I go to the store and see a game that's based on a movie, I don't even give the box a second glance. There have been so many bad movie-licenced games (and it seems that every single movie has one) that it's just not worth trying them anymore.

    I don't know about that. The "Passion of the Christ" first person shooter has some awesome graphics. Though the weapons are kind of limited. Actually, you don't really get any weapons, you just get beat up by Romans. But I thought the graphics made up for what it lacked in gameplay. Though I still haven't beat it- no matter what I do, I always die at the end. And I suppose, if you're really into the action games, "Bridge on the River Kwai" wasn't that exciting, but I thought the physics models involved in the bridge-building was quite sophisticated. Also there's some pretty good buzz about the upcoming "Brokeback Mountain" MMORPG.