Welcome to Lost in Translation‘s quick – wait, not so quick – series of adapting games to television and film. The series grew, but now it’s time to wrap up. Part I – Video Games Part II – Boardgames Part … Continue reading
Welcome to Lost in Translation‘s quick series about the ins and outs of adapting games to television and film.* As seen since the first post, if something is popular, someone else will want to adapt it to a different medium. … Continue reading
[Note: This is not the column I hinted at last week. That review is still coming.] Nineteen forty-four was not a kind year to British citizens. World War II was still going on, and people living within airstrike distance of … Continue reading
The game Battleship is a venerable one, dating back to a pad-and-paper release by Milton Bradley in 1931, and even that game may have just been a codification of a game that existed before then. Milton Bradley released Battleship again in … Continue reading
Board game adaptations aren’t new, but we’re going to see more coming over the next few years. How successful the coming movies are as adaptations will depend on how well they depict game play. Not necessarily the mechanics of the … Continue reading
This is part of a new category of posts designed to explore business ideas, properties, etc. that we here at Fan To Pro think MORE can be done with. The idea is to look at media properties, technology, games, entertainment, … Continue reading