Mar 4
Eckō Entertainment is makin’ a Dexter Game!
Ecko Entertainment, best known to the gaming industry for its very ironic game Marc Eckō’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure–wherein you play as a dude that’s trying to stand up against big corporations (unlike the clothing company that Eckō himself has created, of course)–announced today that they’ll be making a game based off of last year’s surprise hit Dexter. So long as he still has a witty observational monologue, I’m cool with it. Hit the jump for the full press release, yo.
March 4, 2008 – New York, NY - Marc Ecko Entertainment today announced it has entered into a production agreement with Showtime Networks to design a videogame based on the Emmy® and Golden Globe® winning hit television series “DEXTER”. Marc Ecko Entertainment will develop the property for interactive media in close collaboration with Showtime Networks to guarantee its faithfulness to the spirit of the groundbreaking show.
DEXTER follows Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood spatter expert for the Miami Dade Police Department whose perfectly respectable persona hides a dark compulsion: he is a serial killer who hunts down people who have escaped justice.
“DEXTER is the extremely rare TV show with enough layers of action and tension to translate perfectly into a compelling videogame,” said Marc Fernandez, Vice President of Marc Ecko Entertainment. “Our game designers, writers, and artists are going to give Dexter’s morally complex world the kind of interactivity that gamers will love.”
“DEXTER is one of the most popular shows on SHOWTIME with a particularly strong fan base among gamers. It’s a very logical jump to create a game with the website IGN.com naming it 2007’s ‘Best Television Program’,” said Len Fogge, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Digital Media and Research at Showtime Networks. “We’re confident Marc Ecko Entertainment’s team has the unique talents to take Dexter to the interactive space in the right way.”
Marc Ecko Entertainment handled the production side of 2005’s Getting Up and is currently working on an untitled project with developer Human Head. The Dexter game is in pre-production and Showtime Networks and Marc Ecko Entertainment are in talks with a handful of developers to bring the game to life. More details will be announced in upcoming months.
Sorry, other Dexter. Eventually they’ll make a good game based off of you. Mark my words!
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It’s a funny coincidence that this news came today. Just an hour ago, one of my lab students said that I look like Dexter (the one with the laboratory), which is weird, because I don’t think I’ve ever told them that I call myself that on the Internet, and I don’t even have orange hair. I guess it’s just being a short guy in a labcoat that does it.
Must be, Dex. Must be.
I love the show, but I don’t have high hopes for this game.
And they better not call it Marc Ecko’s Dexter.
Nah, it’d be Marc Ecko’s Dexter: Contents Under Dextsure.
Dammit, I lol’d