How Epic Games sees the new convergence of games and Hollywood | The DeanBeat

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We’re still mourning E3, but I’m looking forward to the GamesBeat Summit 2023 event ahead, which will feature Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead. And while there isn’t anything to contemplate about E3, there is still a lot to reminisce about the recent Game Developers Conference. And in particular, I still have quite of few things to note about Epic Games’ State of Unreal event.

During the event, the Epic Games team showed off Unreal Engine 5.2, and they showed the latest advances in digital humans with demos of works such as Project M and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. After that, I interviewed them about the convergence of games and Hollywood.

We talked about how they have worked in games and film and have often thought about the coming together of these two industries.

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It’s exemplified more than ever as game properties are converted into great TV shows like HBO’s The Last of Us. The Super Mario movie is out now and Tetris recently debuted on Apple TV. The list goes on with Arcane, Uncharted, Sonic the Hedgehog, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Dungeons & Dragons and more.

Whether they’re critically acclaimed or not, these films and shows are drawing viewers. And it’s a common occurrence for creators to conceive of worlds and to have those become both films and video games. As Anna Sweet of Bad Robot Games noted, there are different doors into these worlds.

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