{"id":7701,"date":"2010-09-22T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"inception-video-game-a-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/7701-inception-video-game-a-possibility","title":{"rendered":"Inception video game a possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood industry rag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118024429.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Variety\">Variety<\/a> is reporting that Christopher Nolan, director of the blockbuster sci-fi-heist-thriller Inception, is considering a video game spin-off from the movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking at developing a videogame based on the world of the film, which has all kinds of ideas that you can&#8217;t fit into a feature film,&#8221; Nolan said at a packed Rome press conference. &#8220;That&#8217;s something we&#8217;ve been talking about and are looking at doing long term, in a couple of years,&rdquo; Nolan told Variety.<\/p>\n<p>To date the film has raked in US$752 million from around the globe. Presumably, a significant fan base has developed &ndash; fans who may just be keen on an Inception video game.<\/p>\n<p>The movie already sports a viral marketing game &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mind-crime.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mind Crime\">Mind Crime<\/a> &#8211; which has attracted plenty of Facebook fans and grown a small community of maze creators.<\/p>\n<p>Video games based on movies are usually a hit-and-miss affair, with far more misses than notable hits. An Inception game may just prove successful, as the world of the film has a great scope and could provide a good environment for cerebral gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/30545\/Inception_Director_Nolan_Looking_At_Spinoff_Video_Game.php\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gamasutra\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Nolan, director of Inception, is looking at a spin-off game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}