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May 21, 2008

Confirmed: Ubisoft's "Avatar" videogame will be 3-D

3d A few months ago, I heard from a very good source in a position to know that Ubisoft's videogame based on the upcoming James Cameron pic "Avatar" is being made in 3-D. The idea being that the game will ship with 3-D glasses so gamers can experience something akin to the digital 3-D experience that Cameron is presenting on the screen.

However, the source who told me this did so very off the record and I haven't been able to find someone else to confirm it, which is what I would need to actually run with the story.

As CNET News reported today, though, Cameron himself confirmed that Ubisoft already has a stereostopic version of the game running with 3-D glasses.

GameSpot prints this under its "rumor patrol" and says it "remains to be seen" if it's true. And of course Ubisoft hasn't confirmed anything and the game won't come out until Christmas 2009 (along with the film), so lots can change. But based on my source and what Cameron said, I can comfortably report with certainty that the "Avatar" game will indeed be 3-D.

Now how will that work -- the type of glasses used in theaters for digital 3-D are way too expensive to ship with every videogame, I'd presume -- and how good will it look? We'll probably be waiting a long while to find out.

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