Avid Gamer Steven Spielberg Teams Up With EA

Posted on October 14, 2005

Steven Spielberg is teaming up with Electronic Arts' production team in L.A. to develop three original video games. In a press release statement Spielberg said he has playing games for years.

Beginning this year, with offices located on site at EALA, Spielberg will work directly with EA's development teams to offer his signature style of storytelling to the concept, design, story and artistic visualization of the new games. EA will own the intellectual properties and the game franchises will be developed, published and distributed worldwide by EA. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

"I have been playing EA games for years and have watched them master the interactive format." said Steven Spielberg. "Having watched the game industry grow from a niche into a major creative force in entertainment, I have a great deal of respect for EA's understanding of the interactive format. I'm looking forward to working closely with the team in Los Angeles."

Variety's EEG News says the initial game is expected to be a sci-fi or action adventure game. With Hollywood's most successful director moving into video games we can expect budgets for blockbuster games to get bigger and bigger. And hopefully with Spielberg applying his storytelling skills to these three EA projects the games will get bigger and better as well.

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