Hollywood's love affair with the video game world is trundling along. In a week where Sony announced that it was adapting Supermassive Games' Until Dawn into a feature film, the GDC 2024 State of the Industry report dropped in with a noteworthy statistic: 25 percent of developers at triple-A game studios say the games they're working on are being adapted to TV or film.
That number drops if you scan the whole of the video game industry, with a still-respectable 10 percent of industry professionals saying they're courting the same offers. Like it or not, such adaptations would have an effect on the cultural impact of video games and the art of developing them.
But reading that statistic raises a dark thought: while game execs and media moguls sign multimillion-dollar deals to bring big stories like The Last of Us to the big screen, how will the developers who labored on the game reap the benefits?
Read the full editorial by senior editor Bryant Francis over at Game Developer.