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      Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: a video game that will whip film fans into a frenzy

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 11:15 · 1 minute

    MachineGames’ long-awaited tie-in looks set to deliver the most authentic Indy adventure yet. And with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on board, hold on to your hats for an unforgettable ride

    It’s the spring of 1977, and George Lucas is petrified. Having just wrapped work on his third feature film, Star Wars, he retreats to Hawaii, unable to face the early reviews. Yet as he frets in a five-star resort, Lucas bumps into another Hollywood hideaway – Steven Spielberg. Making sandcastles together under the Maui sun, Lucas pitches Spielberg a story that riffs on the simpler era of 1950s’ serials, an action-packed spectacular about a James Bond-esque archaeologist. This crypt-robbing Casanova’s name? Indiana … Smith.

    The hero’s moniker certainly benefited from some finessing, and the action-packed Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) raked in $354m at the box office. Yet as great as Indy’s influence was on cinema, it might have had an even bigger one on video games. It inspired Lara Croft’s tomb-raiding antics and Uncharted’s wise-cracking Nathan Drake. There have also been games starring Indy himself, most notably LucasArts’ brilliant graphic adventures from the early-90s, but it’s been decades since the last interactive Indiana Jones adventure that wasn’t made of Lego . This December, he’ll finally get another crack of the gaming whip with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, from the studio behind Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus – in a game that actually looks like the films.

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      “We run a business”—why Microsoft’s Indiana Jones will be on PS5

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 21 August - 21:32 · 1 minute

    So I'm not stuck on Xbox, eh?

    Enlarge / So I'm not stuck on Xbox, eh? (credit: Bethesda)

    Bethesda's Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is the latest game from a Microsoft subsidiary that will make its way to the PlayStation 5. The game will hit Sony's console in the spring of 2025, Microsoft announced yesterday , months after a planned December launch on Xbox Series S/X and Windows.

    In an interview with YouTube channel Xbox On , Microsoft's Phil Spencer expanded on that decision, implying that multiplatform releases for Microsoft gaming properties were important to the Xbox division's bottom line. "We run a business," he said, "It's definitely true inside of Microsoft the bar is high for us in terms of the delivery that we have to give back to the company, because we get a level of support from the company that's just amazing in what we're able to go do."

    Phil Spencer's comments come about three minutes into this interview.

    Amid massive layoffs that have hit Xbox and other gaming companies in recent months, Spencer noted that there's "a lot of pressure on the [game] industry" these days. "[The industry] has been growing for a long, long time and now people are looking for ways to grow," he said. "And I think that us, as fans, as players of games, we just have to anticipate there's going to be more change in how some of the traditional ways that games were built and distributed [ars] going to change... for all of us."

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      ‘That train sound? It’s a hovering mothership!’: legendary Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt reveals his secrets

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 15 August - 05:00 · 1 minute

    Burtt, the man who created iconic moods in George Lucas’s sci-fi blockbuster, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Alien and WALL-E, explains the nuts and bolts – and hammers, ceiling fans and squeaky doorknobs – of his trade

    When Ben Burtt Jr was invited to look at the concept art for Star Wars before filming began, he says he heard the lightsaber as much as saw it: it was the sound of a film projector. “I was a projectionist at a theatre,” he says. “I could hear a projector motor – not when it’s running the movie, but as it sat still: a musical humming. Fifty per cent of the lightsaber is that projector. I mixed it in with the buzz of a television tube.” So when you hear one of Burtt’s most famous sound effects, you are listening to cinema.

    Yet it’s only one part of an amazing aural universe that Burtt has created, as instantly recognisable as John Williams’ theme music. Where would Star Wars be without the sound of Han Solo’s blaster – made by hitting a high-tension wire with a hammer? Or the plaintive yowls of Chewbacca – a melange of vocalisations and animal recordings? The voice of R2-D2 is Burtt himself. “I was trying keyboards with electronic effects, and it didn’t have life. It wasn’t coming from something alive; something that was thinking. It’s only when I was able to channel a voice element into it that it changed. It’s about 50% vocal, 50% electronic.”

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      Xbox : une nouvelle conférence annoncée avec le jeu Indiana Jones en vedette

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 10 January, 2024 - 07:00

    Developer Direct Xbox Janvier 2024

    La firme de Redmond nous donne rendez-vous la semaine prochaine pour découvrir un live Developer_Direct chargé en annonces.
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      Ces 3 Lego en promotion feront des heureux à Noël

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Saturday, 16 December, 2023 - 09:53

    [Deal du jour] Pour exposer ou pour jouer, les Lego sont des cadeaux incontournables des fêtes de fin d'année. Voici quelques sets en promotions qui combleront les amateurs de belles choses, et les plus jeunes fans de briques.

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      Disney fait trop de suites, et pour trop cher

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 1 December, 2023 - 13:30

    Disney Trop De Suites Trop Cher

    Quelques jours après s'être adressé à ses employés au sujet d'une année particulièrement rude pour ses activités, Bob Iger revient face à la presse sur les raisons de ces échecs au cinéma.

    Disney fait trop de suites, et pour trop cher

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      Ce soir à la TV : Indiana Jones et le Temple Maudit ou la création du PG-13

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 13 November, 2023 - 16:30

    Indiana Jones 2 Pg 13 États Unis

    Indiana Jones est l'une de ses sagas qui aura marqué l'histoire du cinéma. Ce que l'on sait moins, c'est que le second volet a fait naître une nouvelle classification des œuvres aux États-Unis.

    Ce soir à la TV : Indiana Jones et le Temple Maudit ou la création du PG-13