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By Tom Ivan
According to Variety, Paramount will partially or completely finance the games and play a role in overseeing development. Games will be based either on new Paramount movies or catalog titles and the studio is especially keen to invest in casual, handheld and mobile games due to the relatively low development costs.
"We are entering into deals now where we will be publishing games this year," said Sandi Isaacs, Paramount’s senior VP of interactive and mobile. "There's going to be a slate where in some cases we're publishing, in some cases we're co-publishing, or in others we're funding development and another publisher buys it. It's important for us to have a flexible model."
As VP of interactive development, Matt Candler will play a key role in Paramount’s videogame operations. He has previously held positions at Activision and developers Grind Games, Seven Studios and Six Studios.
Former Sega and Fox exec Luke Letizia will join Paramount as executive director of interactive licensing to oversee projects licensed to other videogame publishers.
Not counting Disney, Paramount is the second film studio behind Warner Bros. to directly enter the game publishing sector.
