The Halcyon Company, which is developing the next movie in the “Terminator” franchise, has announced the start of a subsidiary company responsible for creating a video game to coincide with the release of the film in summer of 2009.  Halcyon acquired the rights to the films earlier this year as well as the video game rights to several Philip K. Dick stories.  According to the company, the game has been in development for several months now.  A representative from Halcyon Games has even been on the set of the film since it began shooting in Budapest.  Halcyon is confident that their game division won’t have any trouble finding distribution for the game.

Somehow I missed that “Terminator Salvation” is already being made.  What kind of a title is that?  Putting the words “Terminator” and “salvation” next to each other goes beyond the bounds of what the concept of oxymoron allows. And since we’ve seen 3 of these movies already, there’s no chance of the dramatic irony that the Terminator is going to show up and not be out to kill John Connor.  That said, if this game is half-way decent, I’m going to be looking forward to seeing what they do with the Philip K. Dick video games.  Dick’s ideas are hit or miss when it comes to films, but I think video games may be a more appropriate format for adapting the original material.

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