Guillermo del Toro "Will Never Again Get Involved With Video Games"

Writer/director Guillermo del Toro has a flair for visuals that would transfer wonderfully to the video game medium, but after two separate attempts to make a game have failed (most recently, the collapse of Silent Hills for Konami), del Toro is giving up on gaming completely.

In an interview with ShackNews, he says:

“I have proven to be the albatross of video games. I joined THQ, and THQ goes broke. I join Kojima, and Kojima leaves Konami. I have decided, in order not to destroy anyone else’s life, I have decided I will never again get involved in video games. Otherwise, I’ll join someone and his house will explode, or something...if I join another video game, World War III will start.”

So it seems like he's made up his mind and he's truly finished with gaming. Based on his previous experiences, I can't say I really blame him. I guess that means that whatever he and Hideo Kojima are working on together is not a new game after all. It's a shame that we'll never get to see what he could do in that medium, since he's such a stellar visual storyteller; whatever game he did would have been legendary, but now it'll be just another "what if" scenario that geeks discuss with a sense of longing, alongside his version of The Hobbit and his take on At The Mountains of Madness.