As revealed earlier this week EA have signed a deal with the United Talent Agency, giving the developer access to Hollywood’s hottest actors, writers, producers and directors. 20th Century Fox has already confirmed it’s working on a big-screen adaption of The Sims and an animated TV spin-off of the Wii and DS counterpart MySims.

Sarcastic Gamer has received the exclusive first draft of ideas for the MySims cartoon, including character designs, locations and scripts. Hit the jump for the lot!

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Edge Online (formerly Next Generation) is reporting that Electronic Arts have signed a deal with the United Talent Agency in Hollywood to bring their franchises to the big screen. The deal with the acting and writing agency will allow EA unparalleled access to scriptwriters, actors, producers and directors so their IPs can be converted to a less interactive, more watchable format.

Hit the jump for more on this, and prepare to cower under your seats once you find out what franchise EA has lined up for your nearest cinema first.

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Love Guitar Hero?  What if I told you that you could enjoy the same engaging gameplay, with notes that sound exotically off-key.  Interested?  Then the latest addition to the promotion of the new movie “The Love Guru” with Mike Meyers (Tomorrow, June 20th) ought to give you a reason to dust off your curly-toed shoes and hammer out a few licks.

The flash game is purposely as silly as it is hysterical with two tracks and two difficulties to choose from.  From the non-infectious Rock the Ashram to the age-old favorite Don’t Stop Bhagavan, its sure to please or offend music genre gamers from all walks of life.

Even if for the purpose of mild curiosity appeasement, have a peak for yourself here.

Nice to see another instance where gaming gets a nod as being a viable method of reaching consumers.  Maybe we aren’t so frickin odd after all.

The official UK PlayStation magazine features what appear to be the world’s first screenshots of Bond’s first video game outing since the mediocre From Russia With Love (based on the Sean Connery film and starring pop star Natasha Bedingfield for reasons one can only try to comprehend). The new game, based on the upcoming movie Quantum of Solace, will feature Daniel Craig in the starring role and will take on the gadget-free, adrenaline-surged style of the newer films.

More on this (relatively) exclusive news after the jump!

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Videogames are making a lot of money these days. Point of fact: The video game industry made over one billion dollars last month. Granted it was mainly due to GTA IV, but impressive none the less. It is therefore inevitable that more people in the entertainment industry are going to want a piece of that “pie.” Boom Blox for the Wii was the brainchild of famed director Steven Spielberg. Gore Verbinski, the director of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, is set to helm the Bioshock movie. I have no problem with either of these gentlemen being involved in the gaming industry. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the Pirates movies and Boom Blox has received a warm critical reception. However, with the good inevitably comes the bad. No, I’m not talking about Uwe Boll (though he is by no means good). Who is the latest individual looking to get involved in the industry?

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Our favorite movie director is at it again. Uwe Boll, known for the masterpieces Bloodrayne and Postal, caught wind that a particular multi-million dollar MMORPG was being made into a movie by Legendary Pictures. Not one to be overlooked when decisions about a video game movies are being contemplated, Mr. Boll went straight to the makers of the game and asked to make it.

What did they say? I’m sure you know, but why not take the jump to find out?

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Once again John Riccitiello, EA’s CEO, has stepped up to a microphone in order to tell us all what the future holds. As easy as it is to dismiss everything the man says for the simple fact that he heads up one of the most “infamous” companies in the industry, he may actually be right on the money this time. For the most part anyway…

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Not long ago, Uwe Boll, answering questions about what was, at the time a small online petition, asking him to stop making awful game movies, told the media that if that petition ever had a million signatures on it, he’d vow to end his film making career. That was about 150,000 signatures ago. Now, in this video on Youtube, he appears to be getting a little nervous.

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