It’s clear at this point that J.J. Abrams will not be satisfied until he has control of every nerdy property in existence. Yesterday, at the DICE Summit, a Las Vegas gathering of video game execs, Abrams and Gabe Newell, founder and director of revolutionary game developer Valve, announced a partnership during a joint keynote address called “Storytelling Across Platforms: Who Benefits Most, the Audience or the Player?”
Valve is best known for the Half-Life series, which changed first-person shooters as we know them, and Steam, their games network which has been at the forefront of digital distribution. Abrams is, of course, best known for needlessly withholding every detail about his cliched movies right up until their release.
Quoth Abrams: “There’s an idea we have for a game that we’d like to work with Valve on.” Quoth Newell: “We’re going to figure out if we can make a Portal movie or Half-Life movie together.”
