Digital Domains. el estudio de Michael Bay, comenzará a desarrollar videojuegos

What could filmmaker Michael Bay possibly have left to accomplish after wowing movie-goers with such (debatable) smash cinema sensations as Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor, and this summer's Transformers? According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, Bay wants to bring his special brand of big-screen explosions to the world of video games.

Bay's first video game project, a first-person shooter with a budget of $25 million, is just one step in a process of transforming Digital Domains, Inc from a well-known Hollywood special effects group to an all-out production house. Digital Domains has previously done special effects work for Titanic and The Day After Tomorrow. They also worked on the recent Gears of War television spot. As the co-chairman of Digital Domains, Bay is at the forefront of attempting to move them into the position of a group that can "capitalize on the convergence between games and feature films."

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Digital Domains is planning to spend over $100 million in the next three years buying equipment and hiring around 100 new employees, mostly game programmers. They currently plan to develop four or five games over the next two years, though the only one mentioned in the article is the $25 million unnamed FPS

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Digital Domain's president of the commercial division, Ed Ulbrich, summed it up: "We're not just talking about the convergence of film and video games. It's no longer a theory."