Simpsons, South Park deals on its wishlist.
A number of publishers have recently proclaimed that the traditional movie tie-in’s days are numbered. Not only do they routinely getting a critical shoeing but people just aren’t buying them anymore.
Not so, says Telltale Games, the developer behind the recent Back to the Future game and a forthcoming Jurassic Park title, among others. Its CEO claims that if done right, licensed titles can be both commercially and critically successful.
In February, THQ boss Brian Farrell claimed that the “‘see the movie, play the game’ experience” no longer worked, while former Take-Two CEO Ben Feder announced last year that “licensing content is dead”.