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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land The dystopic, autocratic world of The Hunger Games hasn’t really been well-represented in video games just yet. There are ways a traditional game could work, but for the time being the only official version of Panem we’ve got is on Facebook.
This one was just too easy. I mean, who hasn’t imagined the characters from Suzanne Collins’s young adult novels interacting with the disembodied Mario head of Mario Teaches Typing 2?
The Hunger Games came out in theatres recently, setting new box-office records and drawing millions of eager fans. The film had two tie-in games announced, one on iOS and one on Facebook.
At the end of a nearly 13 minute interview, Peter Travers, the eminent film critic from Rolling Stone asks Josh Hutcherson, who plays Peeta in current box office smash The Hunger Games to sing the song currently on his mind. OK, Hutcherson says, just one problem: The song has no lyrics.
The Hunger Games opened last Thursday to sold-out theatres. Bringing in over $US150 million in ticket sales in the US alone, it claimed the third-best opening weekend in terms of revenue in the history of blockbuster cinema.
Sooner or later, we’re going to get a video game based on The Hunger Games. No film can be as popular as this one, raking in just under $155 Million opening weekend, and not bring a huge amount of tie-in products in its wake, video games included.
Forgive me, I had not heard of The Hunger Games before I posted an item about Canabalt‘s creator and mentioned he was making an iPhone game coinciding with the film’s release. That was a week ago. Since then, I could not avoid the topic if I tried, and not just because of its understandable appeal to video gamers.
The Hunger Games is out today, in more ways than just the film release and yesterday’s iOS game.
