AMUSEMENT invited writer and actor Hélena Noguerra to try out the upcoming hit-game Heavy Rain, a psychological thriller.

This issue brushes a panorama of the latest experiments in storytelling in new media. In this new transmedia paradigm, digital platforms allow the actor-spectator to participate in a shifting narrative that reacts to his actions – on consoles, computers, mobile phones or in real life. In real life and in real cities, where the artists of Blast Theory base their celebrated geolocalized games, having spoken to us in an extensive interview contained in this issue.

This special feature also contains an exploration of Fan Fictions – these fan-made videos that open new ways to explore established universes – and discusses new ways to market and fund these interactive movies or series through web-community funding.

The second part of our feature explores the links and bonds between the ever-so-close media of video games and cinema. Adaptations from one to the other, structural and economic hybrids, or even imitations and mimetic behaviours (often with inconclusive results) proving that this already beaten theme still contains some subtleties to explore. The magazine’s closing pages are a proof of that, composed in a playful journal filled with interviews, analytic perspectives and theoretical papers that explore our subject even deeper.

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