Italy for Movies has just become even richer: the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism’s recently-launched national portal for locations and movie production incentives, created by Istituto Luce Cinecittà in collaboration with the Italian Film Commissions Association, now boasts a database of videogames set in Italy.
Video Games
Playable Matera: an interview with Digital Lighthouse
A new video game set in Matera, the European Capital of Culture 2019, has been recently announced. An innovative way to discover the beauty of the old town and the so-called “Sassi di Matera”.
Museum Development. Playing with museums
The Naples National Archaeological Museum enters the videogame world with the forthcoming Father and Son, the latest addition to the long, ongoing path through which museums have been exploring the language of videogames.
Wheels of Aurelia, a road trip through Italy
Santa Ragione’s Wheels of Aurelia is a road trip game set on the Roman road “via Aurelia” during the turmoil of the 1970s and focuses on the socio-political scene of the decade.
The Town of Light: a video game set in Volterra’s ex-mental hospital
In 2014 Volterra’s ex-mental hospital becomes the source of inspiration for The Town of Light, a video game by LKA.it, an independent studio founded by Luca Dalcò.
Monteriggioni and the Assassin’s Creed effect
The project derives from the study of exemplary cases such as Assassins’s Creed II, a video game released in 2009 and set during the Italian Renaissance, in cities like Venice, Florence, San Gimignano, Forlì and Monteriggioni.
The Italian games market: statistics by AESVI
According to the last statistics published by AESVI (the Italian Games Industry Association), the Italian video games market closed the year 2015 with a turnover of almost one billion euros (952,172,036 euros) and a positive trend (+6.9%), compared with 2014.