The Twilight franchise is a giant cash cow. The books, movies and even ... underwear have sold like crazy but one sector the franchise hasn't touched yet is the videogame market. Games analyst Nick Gibson spoke about the possibility of a Twilight game series and believes that a game based on the wimpification of vampires could "easily present a seven-figure exploitation opportunity." Nick goes on to say that the videogame would be a hit with the ladies, especially on the Wii and DS.
CVG points out that there may be a videogame actually in the works as BrainJunk Studios has acquired the license for Twilight based games. Also, there was that Twilight Scene it!, which Papa Burch loves.
Whatever the case, I just used this story as an opportunity to post the header image. Yup.
Twilight video game absence has 'cost millions' [CVG -- Image]
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2:00 PM on 03.19.2010
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Though I will call this, a "Heavy Rain" inspired Twilight game would have girls X'ing to Edward all night long.
Edward is so dreamy -sigh-
SOMEONE GET ON THAT.
Header image of the week, sir. Well played.
WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME?
You just won at the internet this hour! You are exactly the type of innovator this company needs!
Hopefully Nick Gibson will give us more useful tips on what companies are missing out on. He didn't really look into the issue though to see if any game dev teams had the rights to even make a game on Twilight.
He seems about as useful as Michael Patcher though...
My God, how they'd sell.
Shake the Wii like it's Dracula's cock to increase the sparkle meter!
o and gotta say...Twilight games always seemed inevitable, but I pray they never see the light of day to sparkle in.
Though the boxart better be holofoil...
Yes, make millions of actual gamers loss faith in humanity.
The only people who care about Twilight = teenage girls.
Teenage girl gamers are a relatively small demographic. Game would sell like 50 copies.
I really do.
ps: there's a scene it twilight for the wii
I congratulate you on trying to put a positive spin on this, but no... Just no. People have made the same comments for reading. "It's better than people reading nothing, right?" But it's not.
If all you're feeding yourself is 'junk food', how the hell does that lead a person to eat something better? Twilight games will just suck, not just literally sucking as in bad, but suck more money from the wallets of teenage girls who are just fixated on some concept of love that just isn't real and isn't healthy.
Bad enough that the gaming industry is propped up by the male fascination with violence - of which I confess I am guilty of as well. No need to make it worse right now.
Japan is probably way ahead of you in all of these regards twilight. Get the makers of Rapelay on this straight away!
Period.
UGH... just when i thought i had seen the worst of shovelware, i read THAT
@Everyday Legend: i concur
@Hamza: but why are you staying awake for 24 hours?