From movie-screen to your browser

Browser games are becoming increasingly popular. This year alone, item sales will be a billion dollar business. In addition, the development of browser games is less expensive than the production of a console version. Once a framework is developed or an established framework is used as a basis, the development effort is reduced to a minimum.

Hollywood, too, is taking its share of the market. More and more movie-based games are appearing. Whether you want to immerse yourself in the world of The Fast and the Furious, Wanted or X-Men Origins Wolverine – the respective game can be accessed easily and inexpensively. You can even use your browser to have adventures as detective Sherlock Holmes, who will be coming to theaters soon starring Robert Downey Jr.

The studios’ benefits are obvious. It remains to be seen, however, whether browser games using movie plots as story lines will be able to have the same long-term appeal as building and strategy games outside the movie genre.

What do you think?