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ARTS, BRIEFLY Video Game Draws Interest in Hollywood Film rights for an Electronic Arts video game that hasn’t been released yet were sold to Universal Pictures in an auction that attracted five movie studios, Variety reported. The movie rights for the game, whose working title Variety reported as Dante’s Inferno but EA declined to confirm, were sold at an auction in which Paramount, New Regency and MGM also made offers; Warner Brothers had previously dropped out of the bidding process. EA has sold the movie rights for its popular Sims and Mass Effect series and last week optioned the game Army of Two to Universal; both the Dante’s Inferno video game and the film are expected to chronicle a journey through hell.
Arts, Briefly Video Game Sales Continue to Decline * Sign in to Recommend * Sign In to E-Mail * Print * Reprints * ShareClose o Linkedin o Digg o Facebook o Mixx o MySpace o Yahoo! Buzz o Permalink o Article Tools Sponsored By By MATT RICHTEL; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF Published: June 12, 2009 In May video game sales fell to $863 million, down by 23 percent from the same period a year ago, according to the NPD Group, which tracks domestic sales. Sales of hardware (consoles and handheld devices) dropped by 30 percent, while sales of software fell by 17 percent, to $449 million. This, the third consecutive month of declining year-over-year sales, leaves scant support for those arguing that the stay-at-home-and-play industry is not susceptible to recessionary pressures. Sales also fell sharply in March and April. But the NPD Group noted that those drops might have causes other than recession. For instance, NPD analysts said at the time that March sales had fallen because Easter was in Apri
