Nifty survival horror game Pacific Drive is getting turned into a TV show

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The survival horror indie hit Pacific Drive is getting turned into a TV show,
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. Director James Wan, who is best known for Saw and Aquaman, has scooped up the rights to the game, though that’s about all we know. There’s no casting news yet, or even information as to which streamer or network it will premiere on. It’s time to play the waiting game.

Pacific Drive is
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on the survival horror genre. It’s a first-person driving sim that tasks players with exploring a supernatural version of the wilds of Washington. It’s like Twin Peaks, if it was set entirely in the driver’s side of a beat-up station wagon. The game has been lauded since its release back in February,
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Best Debut Indie Game at The Game Awards, among other accolades.


We are in something of a golden age for video game adaptations. Peacock’s Twisted Metal
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and the Fallout show
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. The Super Mario Bros. Movie was one of the biggest animated hits of all time and Sonic the Hedgehog
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. Let us also not forget The Last of Us, Arcane and Five Nights at Freddy’s. Let us do
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.

This is to say that Pacific Drive is far from the only forthcoming video game adaptation. The horror-tinged fishing sim Dredge
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and there’s a cartoon coming out
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. Even The Legend of Zelda is getting a live action film, as is Minecraft. Are video games the new superheroes?

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