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"J.J. Abrams is working on becoming the geek's favorite director; Abrams and Valve Software's CEO announced the two were collaborating on making Half Life and Portal into movies, among other projects.\nAbrams and Valve's Gabe Newell held a joint talk at the DICE conference in Las Vegas Wednesday on the subject of \u201CStorytelling Across Platforms: Who Benefits Most, the Audience or the Player?\u201D. According to Wired, the pair made the announcement they were working together at the end of their keynote, which kicked off the games industry conference.\nNewell and Abrams would also collaborate on a game produced by Abrams' production company, Bad Robot, who will also head up the production of the two films if they become a reality. \nAbrams is already probably one of the busiest directors in Hollywood. His next installment of the Star Trek reboot, Into Darkness is coming out later this year, and it was just announced he'll direct Disney's foray into the Star Wars universe with Star Wars: Episode VII. \nGame blog Gamasutra has an in-depth interview with Abrams, where he said Valve \" is obviously one of the greatest minds and producers of games that I've experienced. Their games have awesome humor, inspiring scope and characters that make you laugh and think.\" \nIn that same interview, Abrams says he has been influenced recently by games with great stories, like Limbo and Journey.\nWould you like to see Half-Life and Portal as feature films? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. \nImage via Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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