Now that we've processed all of the big news coming out of last week's E3, we've had time to look at some of the smaller stories we might have missed, this being one of them. According to a May 10th article out of Variety, Regency Enterprises and Titan Productions went to E3 to find a partner to create a video game based on the 1995 bank heist film Heat, which starred Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Val Kilmer.

Next, a May 11th Gamespot article reported that Gearbox Studios (developer of the Brothers in Arms games, along with the PC port of Halo) is on board with Regency and Titan to create the game, which will be a prequel or a sequel to the film. According to Gamespot, Michael Mann, the film's director, is in talks with Gearbox to oversee the game's development. Also, Titan Productions claims to be in "advanced stages with representatives for Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Val Kilmer to be part of the video game sequel." Interesting, since Pacino denied EA any rights to his part in "The Godfather: The Game".

If this does all pan out, we are told to see the game for next gen consoles in 2007...which, in video game world, means 2008.