In one of the least plausible developer start-up stories yet seen, comic book creator Todd McFarlane has teamed up with baseball star Curt Schilling and fantasy author R.A. Salvatore to create a new studio, Green Monster Games. As several news sources have pointed out this week, the celebrity-studded outfit is promising to turn the videogame industry on its head with a radical new publishing model and innovative projects...
...although no details have been revealed. (How's that for a lousy cliffhanger?)
The rag-tag collective is not quite as bizarre as it first seems. McFarlane, of course, has form in the videogame sector, working on characters for Soul Calibur II and several Spawn adaptations. Schilling, meanwhile, is a big MMORPG fan who also apparently owns a small war game company. Salvatore's elf character, Drizzt Do'Urden, has appeared in the Balder's Gate games. Sounds like some kind of fantasy-based online RPG with edgy, flawed heroes might be in order. Vive la revolution, eh?
Actually, this is not even the first celebrity venture into the videogame business. Vin Diesel famously founded Tigon Studios back in 2002, while Steven Spielberg now has an office at EA where he's beavering away on three game projects.
