Rango director Verbinski making Kinect XBLA game

By Robert Purchese Published 7 December, 2011

MS deal "is not limited to video games".

Gore Verbinski's Blind Wink production company will make a Kinect Xbox Live Arcade game for 2012.

Verbinski directed the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films. His production company's debut work was acclaimed animated film Rango.

The XBLA Kinect game will be the "initial offering" of an exclusive partnership between Blind Wink and Microsoft.

"The deal will include, but is not limited to video games, empowering transmedia production company Blind Wink to develop across all Microsoft platforms and reach a variety of new audiences and markets beyond the traditional media distribution methods," the press release read.

Blind Wink will develop the XBLA Kinect game internally, but there's no word on what it will be - nor what Verbinski will contribute.

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This is a picture of Rango, not Gore Verbinski.

Microsoft Studios general manager Matt Booty said Xbox 360 gamers can "look forward to innovative and creative games from the mind of Gore Verbinski".

Verbinski's comment was non-committal as to his role.

"Audiences consume content very differently today," he apparently said. "As an idea house, we at Blind Wink are looking forward to our partnership with Microsoft. Their various platforms give us access to new methods of distribution, allowing us to extend into emerging markets and connect more directly with the audience."

Gore Verbinski has had dealings in video game land before. He was once down to direct the slowly moving BioShock film project, but soon stepped back to a producer role to allow director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo control.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • rotmm #1 6 months ago

    I wasn't a fan of any of the Pirates games and if I'd known Verbinski (before I saw it) was involved in Rango I probably wouldn't have given it a second look. But I didn't know and it is such a great film... one I've watched half a dozen times already.

    Not that this has anything to do with the main point of the article here. ;)

  • Subdominator #2 6 months ago

    I'm sure it will be just as great as that Peter Jackson project Microsoft announced a couple of years ago.

  • orangpelupa #3 6 months ago

    maybe interactive silly and funny movie with kinect?

    but that will be big in filesize :( (for the audio assets)