Blumhouse Launches Video Game Division

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Blumhouse Games will work with independent developers to create “original, horror-themed games” for console, PC, and mobile. The outfit will target productions with smaller, “indie” budgets, which it describes as below $10 million.

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Blumhouse, founded by producer Jason Blum, has been instrumental in making horror one of the most profitable and reliable genres in film in recent years....Its astonishing run of hits began with Paranormal Activity in 2007, and includes the Insidious series, the Purge series, David Gordon Green’s Halloween series reboot, The Black Phone, this year’s M3GAN, and a forthcoming reboot of The Exorcist from Green.

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Blumhouse has tapped a couple of experienced game industry pros with very relevant experience to lead its new games label. President Zach Wood has done stints at Iron Galaxy, Arkane Studios, and Sony’s Santa Monica Studio, where he worked with external developers on smaller games like Hohokum and The Unfinished Swan. CFO Don Sechler headed finance, operations, and strategy at Sony’s PlayStation publishing division, working on the deals that brought a huge range of games to PlayStation platforms, and was instrumental in reforming Sony’s attitude to financing indie games in the 2010s.

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