Time Warner intrigued by games industry, says CFO

Well duh!, with all the money it's generating everybody wants to jump on board now =D.

OK, if we all want to make it out of this topic alive we will just nod our heads and smile.

Hitman MMO confirmed

So when will we see Joystiq Podcast: The Game?

And of course, the inevitable followups:
Joystiq Podcast: The Game Appreciation Group
Joystiq Podcast Appreciation Group: The Game

and

Joystiq Podcast Appreciation Group: The Game Appreciation Group

BAD EGG

Didn't Time Warner acquire Atari in the 80's? And then-well...the rest is history. Stay away Time Warner. Please.

Imagine Vin Diesel Kart Racerz: The Fast and the Curious

Somebody fund this. Right now. I demand it.

my name is john martin, too!

Oh how soon time has forgotten Time Warner Interactive, publisher of such amazing titles such as "Dick Vitale's Awesome Baby! College Hoops" for Sega Genesis in 1994, and other gems.

Actually, Area 51 (the arcade machine) wasn't half bad.

I did some work for them, back in the day.

Um, Time Warner used to be involved with video games. Anyone remember the home ports of Primal Rage and the puke inducing Rise of the Robots?

Official Future History of Time Warner games division: Time Warner will buy a game developer with a strong track record of succssful games.

Use pointless corporate speak to rationalize the massive reorganization in which profits go to time warners executives bonus's and programmers bonus's are paid with coffee mugs.

Replace current executives with "our people" who will walk in and demand massive changes to current projects in order to prove their in charge no matter how much it cripples game play.

Drive anyone with talent out of the company these people will then go and start a new Game company that will have develop a brand new successful franchise.

Time Warner will coast on the dead husks of franchises it has run into the ground until it liquidates the studio citing "unfavorable market conditions" rather than the more truthful "gross executive incompetence"


If this future history sounds suspiciously like past history you've heard of remember Time Warner is an entertainment company and hasn't had an original Idea since 1983. Their entire plan was a remake of "How to piss on the gaming industry" written by Electronic Arts copyright 1993.

I imagined some suit wearing 50-year-old busting into a board meeting, out of breath, and saying: "GUYS! Guys! This thing, like, GAMES for your TELEVISION, I think it's taking off, and the time is NOW!"
"Games for our televisions? Stop talking nonsense."
"Fools! Gone are the times of our youth! We must look to the future! And the future is in the TV game!"