• VOTD: J.J. Abrams Discusses Storytelling With Valve Co-Founder Gabe Newell

    By Russ Fischer February 13th, 2013

    When filmmaker J.J. Abrams appeared on stage a week ago with Gabe Newell of Valve Software, the two dropped a bomb: their companies will work together on several potential projects, one of which could be a video game, and which may also include films based on Valve game series Portal and Half-Life. Their announcement of…

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    If There Were To Be A Half-Life Movie, Game Developer Valve Might Make It

    By Russ Fischer August 30th, 2010

    Why don't game developers make their own movies based upon the video games they create? The first answer to that question should be: "they're busy making more games." But there are a few cases where very high-profile development studios might be able to pull together the resources to make a game-based film, and do so…

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