Anthony Puzo, son of Godfather creator Mario Puzo, has taken Paramount to court for allegedly not paying revenues on the Godfather videogame.
Puzo is claiming for $1 million in damages, after he agreed with his father in 1992 to pay up a share of revenues from any sold or rented audio-visual productions containing Godfather elements.
"In material breach of the audio-visual products agreement, Paramount has failed and refused
John Riccitiello has been talking freely about The Godfather II. At the William Blair & Company's investor meeting on Tuesday, Riccitiello said that EA's Redwood Shores studio is at work on a sequel to The Godfather game, which released in 2006.
"It's a game that I think we'll be talking a lot about this fall," Riccitiello told investors. "You can play this game both at the street level, much like a GTA-style game, but you can
EA Games has dropped word once again that a sequel to last year's quite-good Godfather game is in the pipeline.
Reported on Gamasutra, EA Games head, Frank Gibeau, had this to say during a response to a shareholder question yesterday asking about how EA deals with mature titles:
"The appeal of those types of games is growing as the demographics start to open up for that older demographic... We make products like Godfather 2, Army Of Two, Crysis - a lot of products that appeal to that older
The funny thing about inventing a genre of videogames is that, until it becomes completely played out, every game that emulates your formula is going to be attached to your name. Games that feature a wide-open, freely explorable world, for example, will have a hard time avoiding the label of "Grand Theft Auto clone," especially if their worlds are littered with vehicles to steal and drive.
In the six years since Grand Theft Auto III, a slew of games have tried to become "the next GTA," but so
The Xbox 360 version of The Godfather is just a week away from release, so EA has been kind enough to send along some graphic new screens of criminals doing what they do best: terrorizing the neighborhood with Tommy guns, beating down victims with flaming 2x4s and murdering people in cold blood. They're yours to view in all their graphic glory simply by tapping the Images tab above.
In accepting this generosity from the fine upstanding men and women at EA, be advised that you now owe them a
We got a new video (click the Movies tab above) of some of the beefed up high-speed chases in the 360 version of EA's 1940s themed mob-sim The Godfather. We also acquired a few new screens to round out the package, so while the video is buffering, why not check 'em out by hitting the Images tab
EA delivered some screens to us from The Godfather, the original gangsta game where you must forge a crime syndicate in 1945-55. Made over for the 360 in glorious high-resolution, this new version includes improvements to racket truck heists, extortions, targeting and more. Also added to the suped up next-gen edition are new missions, contract hits, environments and key character interactions, so even if you've already built a hulking criminal empire on your Xbox or PS2, there's new ground to
