Paramount expands games focus
Paramount Pictures is building out its video game publishing and development department, according to Variety. The studio will be taking a more hands-on role in development and financing.
An emphasis will reportedly be placed on casual and mobile games since that’s where costs are lower and adoption is rising. They’ll still be producing full console titles but that’s not where the focus will be.
The move is primarily motivated by the desire to create games that are more fully integrated with movie properties from the studio. By developing them itself, Paramount can produce the title in a more timely manner (since it can go with a design for the game as soon as it’s approved for the movie) and basically build it in a much more grassroots, organic manner.
The decision follows an announcement from corporate sibling Nickelodeon that it would be launching some 600 branded online and mobile games based on its TV properties.
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