No this isn’t madness, it was probably always going to happen. However it has been confirmed that Brash Entertainment intend on releasing games based on SAW and indeed 300, as well as several other movie licences.
Brash Entertainment have managed to whip up funds of $400 million in order to back their games which are all promised to be based on movies. They have five studios to work with, and are currently working on twelve new titles, two of which are the aforementioned SAW and 300.
The first batch of games will been seen this holiday season, thanks to Warner Bros. and their distribution abilities (they have also started distributing for Codemasters and Eidos). Brash Entertainment also have another forty games currently in development, something which is no mean feat.
Brash Entertainment enter a sticky world of licence games. Usually dominated by EA with Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, with Activision having Spider-Man on board and THQ partnering Pixar Films. Brash Entertainment hope to muscle in on the big boys, which isn’t a bad thing at all, as it might just start to encourage the bigger developers to produce better film-to-game conversions.
Hopefully all goes well for Brash Entertainment and they produce some quality games. However, jumping straight in with people who have some strong licences at their disposal seems madness…