EA's "Godfather" game

[Menno]

From the New York Post

An executive from the video-game company told an investor conference that EA was working on a title based on "The Godfather." The game would be one of the company's first "mature"-rated distractions, and a direct response to the popularity of the "Grand Theft Auto" series.

A spokeswoman for EA would say only that it was "in the early stages of development of a game about a crime syndicate."

No release date has been announced.

The other question is whether video game fans, many of whom weren't even born when Francis Ford Coppola's epic was released, will be pulled right back in. "It's still very popular," said Schelley Olhava, an analyst with IDC. "People quote 'The Godfather' all the time."


EA syphoning off of another established genre? NO WAY! [sarcasm]