New FPS will also be film, comic

By Dan Pearson Published 18 March, 2009

Blacklight snapped up for franchising.

In a furious bout of middle-fingering to the face of the credit crunch, developer Zombie has announced that its forthcoming strategic FPS title Blacklight will also be turned into a film and a comic book series.

Kotaku reports that the idea was originally just to produce the game, but media brokerage company Union reckoned that they saw the potential for a film based around the game's universe too. They sold the IP rights to Fox Atomic, who will now be overseeing the game, film and comic book adaptations.

In fact, it was the revelation of this deal which lead to the game's actual announcement, much in the same way that Dante's Inferno was hastily unveiled following the news of the film's production.

The game itself is a near-future affair, with the usual men-in-helmets, dropships and ravaged urban environments which the future always seems to hold. It's set in a mythical city in Kajikistan, which, along with the fact that Zombie also made America's Army (and Saw), makes us believe it'll probably be the good old US army pulling the world's collective arse out of the fire again.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, we'd just like to see a game where an international terrorist/anarchist/improbably crazed minority plot is foiled by a team of Belgian chess enthusiasts. Just once.

No dates have been announced for any of the productions just yet, and the best information suggests that the game will be 'multiplatform'. More details as we get them.

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About Dan Pearson

Dan Pearson joined Eurogamer in 2006 before moving over to GamesIndustry in 2010. He covers all areas of the business and spends much of the rest of his time shouting at his cat and killing dwarves in poorly constructed fortresses.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • PearOfAnguish #1 3 years ago

    Derka derka Mohammed Jihad. There's trouble in Bakalakadaka Street and America is here to save the day.

  • Baranga #2 3 years ago

    It's set in a mythical city in Kajikistan

    Flop confirmed.

  • Baranga #3 3 years ago

    @farticusmaximus:

    Merchants of Brooklyn was just released on Steam... but it's incredibly buggy.

  • Gnort #4 3 years ago

    Hard to imagine what could be so special about the fiction to inspire comic and film spin-offs irrespective of the success of the video game.

    However, if we are going to solve all the world's problems (again) by shooting everything that moves and finding the blue key to open the door to the level exit, I'd rather it was done by men in helmets riding in dropships. I'd prefer to see a game where a crazed minority plot is foiled by Belgian chess enthusiasts, as long as they foiled the plot like Belgian chess enthusiasts, rather than by becoming an unstoppable engine of first person death like Gordon Freeman.

  • Octoroc #5 3 years ago

    Blacklight? Wow I can't wait for this. Light is normally bright, but this new "Blacklight" sounds special and good.

  • sneetch #6 3 years ago

    Not that there's anything wrong with that, we'd just like to see a game where an international terrorist/anarchist/improbably crazed minority plot is foiled by a team of Belgian chess enthusiasts.

    Nice. I'll buy two.

    Congratulations Adelbrecht! Your King's Indian Defense has saved the world. Again!

  • M_of_the_sys #7 3 years ago

    Great. Another FPS. Woohoo...

  • [TR] #8 3 years ago

    @Gnort:

    Are you questioning the ability of a great scientific mind (MIT and so on), hired to push around a scientific cart with scientific materials into scientific devices with scientific beams, to become the sole hope of an entire planet and, as such, figure out in seconds how to use any weapon he comes across, out-smarting and out-gunning soldiers, stealthy tech-ninjas and alien invaders alike?

    On topic, though, I quite enjoyed the Dead Space comics. Not so much the animated movie, but both added something to the game's story. Of course I liked the game, so that helps to enjoy the rest.