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WoW movie still needs a writer, Blizzard's CGI team won't be involved

by Samuel Axon Nov 21st 2008 at 11:00AM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Culture, News items

When you've just released an expansion pack that sold more copies than most major stand-alone releases, all in less than 24 hours, you know you're sitting on a goldmine of a franchise. Blizzard, of course, is aware of this, what with World of Warcraft getting a licensed miniature game and a coming feature film adaptation.

And speaking of the feature film adaptation, we have some elusive news about that. MTV's Multiplayer blog had a chat with Blizzard's Frank Pearce about the project. The scoop is that the studio, Legendary Pictures, is still looking for a screenwriter and director. Obviously, that means the movie is very early in development.

MTV also asked Pearce if Blizzard's own world-renowned CGI animators would be involved in producing the special effects for the movie. Pearce said that the suggestion has "come up in discussions but it's not something we've really considered because it takes so long to generate just the brief amount of footage that we create for the game."

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Tags: animation, blizzard, cgi, computer-animation, director, film, frank-pearce, interview, legendary-pictures, movie, screenwriter, world-of-warcraft, world-of-warcraft-movie, wow, wow-movie

Impressive Huxley cinematic trailer surfaces

by Samuel Axon Jun 23rd 2008 at 7:00PM

Filed under: Trailers, Video, Huxley, New titles, News items


German website PCGames.de is hosting a new trailer (and several screenshots from said trailer) for Webzen's massively multiplayer online first person shooter (what a mouthful) Huxley. If you've not heard of the game, all you need to know is that it runs on Unreal Engine 3, is developed in Korea, and features large-scale, instanced PvP battles.

The trailer doesn't show any gameplay footage (but past ones have). It just shows a really well-orchestrated cinematic sequence. It looks very Unreal or Gears of War. Unfortunately, all the dialogue is in Korean, so we have no idea whether or not it reveals any interesting story elements.

Note that a giant worm-like monster makes an appearance at the end. That might imply that players won't just be fighting each other. Huxley recently found a Western publisher, so we're looking forward to seeing for ourselves.

[Via Blues News]

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Tags: cgi, cinematic, fps, huxley, mmofps, pc-games, pc-gamesde, pcgamesde, trailer, unreal, unreal-engine-3, video, webzen

LotRO's Smeagol is sneakin' in the Lorebook

by Samuel Axon May 25th 2008 at 9:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Lore

The Lord of the Rings Online's Book 11 introduced Gollum as a character with whom players could interact. His cameo appearance was a fun addition, albeit a minor one. Turbine hasn't forgotten him, though; he's the subject of the Lorebook entry most recently featured at the official LotRO website.

The entry tells the "sad and perilous" tale of an innocent little fellow who was consumed by his "precious" -- the One Ring which at first seemed pretty and innocent, but which drove him to murder. We all know the ring is neither pretty nor innocent. As Gandalf said: "it wants to be found," and the one who's looking for it is none too pleasant.

Gollum is one of the classic characters in English language literature. And if you're a fan of the movies as well as the books, then you'll surely agree that Gollum is the greatest CGI character in film history. Don't even get us started with that Jar Jar guy.

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Tags: cgi, gollum, jar-jar, lord-of-the-rings-online, lore, lorebook, lotro, one-ring, turbine

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