目前，电影界和游戏界的互动越来越多，都互相依赖各自在专业领域的影响力来推动他们在电影或者游戏业的新业务。

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德国游戏开发与发行商Bigpoint宣布获得了环球影业Universal Pictures旗下木乃伊电影Mummy film的游戏开发版权，将用于开发基于浏览器的多人角色扮演免费Web游戏。该游戏和电影一样是埃及探索性游戏，同样要对抗那些古老的恶灵。

Universal Pictures的木乃伊电影目前为止已经有了很多延伸版本，比如小说、主题公园、电子游戏等等。

Bigpoint创始人兼首席执行官Heiko Hubertz对该电影的游戏版充满了期待。

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German online games publisher and developer Bigpoint announced that it’s working on The Mummy Online, a free-to-play, browser-based MMORPG centered around Universal Pictures’ The Mummy film franchise.

As with the movies starring Brendan Fraser, The Mummy Online is set in Egypt during the first half of the 20th century. Players will take on the role of adventure seekers with customizable talents and skills, exploring environments and meeting characters from the films as they battle against each other and “ancient evil”.

Universal Pictures has extended The Mummy property beyond films many times before with novels, theme park attractions, and video games for a variety of platforms, but this will be the first time the franchise has appeared as a massively multiplayer online game.

Schell Games (Pixie Hollow), the Pittsburgh-based studio helmed by Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio’s former creative director and The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses author Jesse Schell, is developing the title in multiple languages with the Unity game engine.

“We are excited to adapt this popular film franchise for the global online games market,” says Bigpoint CEO and founder Heiko Hubertz. “By leveraging our mastery of browser-based games technology and Universal Pictures’ popular entertainment property, Bigpoint is quickly becoming one of the leading publishers of licensed games.”