When Hollywood tries to get into games, it often doesn t end well. Sometimes, it doesn t even start well.
Veteran developer and Turtle Rock Studios founder Mike Booth was well aware of this last year when he accepted a job with director J.J. Abrams production company Bad Robot to be the general manager of Bad Robot Games Studio. I actually explored this topic pretty thoroughly before I joined Bad Robot, because there haven t been a whole lot of great success stories with this sort of combination, Booth tells
GamesIndustry.biz in a recent conversation. This goes way back to when CD-ROMs were brand new and Hollywood and games thought they could merge together, but not a whole lot of exciting things happened there.