It was all the common words I could think of: awesome, deep, exciting, thrilling even. Cliches, yes. But they were also words that resonated. If you eschewed most of the game demos as I did (heck, you’ll see them all at E3), the 25th Game Developers Conference in San Francisco was the most important to…
When I talked recently with David Votypka, the general manager of Kaos studios, he began to speak about how screenwriter John Milius influenced the story scenarios in Homefront. Milius is a fine writer, the screenwriter for Coppola’s epic Apocalypse Now, one of the greatest movies of the 20th century. So when THQ and Kaos brought…
Back in the late 1990s, I interviewed Danny Bilson for a pre-E3 story about movies and games in The Hollywood Reporter. Bilson told a story about sitting on a plane and meeting a videogame executive. As the story unfolded, Bilson talked animatedly about his love for games. And he got a good gig – not…
This morning, THQ announced that Apocalypse Now screenwriter John Milius has written a novel to be released in tandem with the release of the science fiction game Homefront. It’s called The Voice of Freedom. Homefront, as you’ll note in my G4TV preview, has a wild premise that’s somewhat plausible — at least to the more paranoid…
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