Dexter The TV Series To Become a Game

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Dan Webb
March 4, 2008 – New York, NY - Marc Ecko Entertainment today announced it has entered into a production agreement with Showtime Networks to design a videogame based on the Emmy® and Golden Globe® winning hit television series “DEXTER”. Marc Ecko Entertainment will develop the property for interactive media in close collaboration with Showtime Networks to guarantee its faithfulness to the spirit of the groundbreaking show.

DEXTER follows Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood spatter expert for the Miami Dade Police Department whose perfectly respectable persona hides a dark compulsion: he is a serial killer who hunts down people who have escaped justice.

“DEXTER is the extremely rare TV show with enough layers of action and tension to translate perfectly into a compelling videogame,” said Marc Fernandez, Vice President of Marc Ecko Entertainment. “Our game designers, writers, and artists are going to give Dexter’s morally complex world the kind of interactivity that gamers will love.”

"DEXTER is one of the most popular shows on SHOWTIME with a particularly strong fan base among gamers. It’s a very logical jump to create a game with the website IGN.com naming it 2007’s ‘Best Television Program’," said Len Fogge, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Digital Media and Research at Showtime Networks. "We’re confident Marc Ecko Entertainment’s team has the unique talents to take Dexter to the interactive space in the right way.”

Marc Ecko Entertainment handled the production side of 2005’s Getting Up and is currently working on an untitled project with developer Human Head. The Dexter game is in pre-production and Showtime Networks and Marc Ecko Entertainment are in talks with a handful of developers to bring the game to life. More details will be announced in upcoming months.
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  • Hmm for some reason when i saw the title I thought it meant Dexter's Labratory. I have heard of the TV show but I dont really get how this could be tunred into a game. A repeat of Lost, prehaps?
  • I am a rather big fan of the show, however I'm skeptical as to how great a video game about it will really be. However, if this game turns out to be good, I'm definitely excited for it.
  • Dexter is a great show. But Lost is a great show too and that game sucked donkey nuts. time will tell on this one.
  • I loved Dexter..I hope they can pull this one off :S
  • i see this being a mix of csi and hitman which if done well will be pretty cool
  • Damn, I thought Dexter's lab was coming... This Dexter sounds interesting though.
  • lol Haze, Shinobi...me too. Noooooo DeDe! I guess we can but wait and wonder.
  • Damn! Why couldent it be Dexter Laboratory! u_u
  • I clicked into this thread expecting it was about Dexter's Laboratory. Thanks for nothing Webb. :p
  • I'll be interested in the general public reaction about taking on the persona of a serial killer. I'm assuming the usual suspects will make their obligatory stink over the matter.
  • @ everyone expecting Dexter's Lab: Same here. :P
  • i love the show but every show that turns into a game is awful. Lost and CSI already showed that on the 360 alone
  • this could be really fun. I would also love to see the Futurama game that came out for PS2 ported over to the 360. I love futurama, but because I'm a total point whore, I won't play it cause there's no achievements :(
  • There's so many good shows, I wish they'd do more. Plus they're usually amazingly easy points cause there's zero depth to the game. That's fun too :)
  • Hopefully the achievements will be as easy as Lost and CSI.
  • Hopefully it will follow the book more closely than the show. Either way, I'll probably buy it, considering I'm a huge fan of both.
  • Haha I thought, Dexter's Laboratory also. Doy, I can't say I've heard of this show.
  • dexter is about solving crimes, then killing people yourself, how can it not be fun
  • awesome i love the show cant wait to see season 3 and the game can be amazing if they do it right
  • its a pretty good show, id say you guys should check it out but its NOTHING like dexters lab :P
  • ...so I don't get to chase Dee Dee out of my Laboratory?
  • Killer66250, it's nothing like CSI. I love Dexter, but I don't think a game will be right.
  • thats cool the show rocks! i also think prison break would make a great game anyone else?
  • Noooooooo I wanted Dexter Lad:D
  • i love the show could make a good game something like a modern day assasins creed tink about,gathering info on the suspect who escaped custody going out and killing him in a room coverd in plastic...awesome.not sure about the marc ecko company though!
  • the show is bad ass and i def could see something like scorcher said "Modern day assassins creed"
  • Yeah I thought it was Dexter's Laboratory.
  • I love the show Dexter, but I have a sad feeling it will be much like the crappy CSI game.......
  • love the show cant wait
  • damn! who else thoght it meant Dexter's laboratory. lol
  • lol everyone seems to think it's Dexter's Labratory. I to thought this. I loved that old Cartoon. I never heard of this other Dexter. *Remembers the Intro music to Dexter's Labratory.* Good times.
  • crap...this is my favorite show on tv....and now its gonna be tarnished....o well
  • interesting show, but I am not sure how they will make it into a suitable game.
  • I haven't watched the show, but I've heard it's really good. I need to get off my butt and watch it...on my butt....well you know what I mean.
  • ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!?!??!? THAT SUCKS!!! i haven't even seen the show, but this game will suck.
  • i thought it was dexter's lab here as well....LOL..... well, let's kill someone......
  • I, too, thought it was Dexter's Lab. lol.
  • wtf no dexters lab. booo
  • i wouldnt get my hopes up. it would take a lot of skill to get the psychological part right and i doubt Ecko has it in them.
  • Though I love the series I also have my doubt about how this will translate into a game. It would have to be a sort of mix between an adventure game, a investigation game (CSI like) with light bits of action (Dexter basically never shoots anyone buts sedates them and then cuts them up). Also, how would these "cut"-scenes be translated into the game? this would definitively be something the critics will be very happy to attack on. Wait and see I suppose...
  • This is so strange i watched my 1st episode of Dexter last night and it was pretty good, the 1st season is being rerun on ITV in the UK, looking forward to this game.
  • Dexter is awesome, I'm sure the game will be playable enough. Looking forward to it, but it will be a long way off.
  • Ha, I'm not that different to anyone else. Dexter's Laboratory would have been a fun game... This sounds good. Looking forward to it.
  • Screw this crap, if its not Dexter's Lab then I want the Harvey Birdman game!
  • I don't watch the show but I know what it's about and I think a game would work really well from it, the story would probably go a bit odd and it'll have alot of issues concerning people wanting to ban it because it'll basically come of as some sort of cross between Hitman and Manhunt
  • Sweet. Can't wait to murder for the right reasons. Haha
  • 5 years later and still no game? :(
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