That’s right. We all know Showtime’s friendly neigh­bor­hood ser­ial killer named Dex­ter and we like watch­ing over his shoul­der while he’s “work­ing”. That’s prob­a­bly due to a darker, voyeuris­tic side deep inside. Any­way, the show is well received and it even got a few awards, TV Pro­gram of the Year among them. No won­der they’re gonna make a video game based on the TV series. The series itself is based on the novel Darkly Dream­ing Dex­ter by Jeff Lindsay.

Accord­ing to Len Fogge, Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, Mar­ket­ing, Dig­i­tal Media and Research at Show­time Net­works, Dex­ter has a par­tic­u­larly strong fan base among gamers, so it’s a very log­i­cal jump to cre­ate a game. Mark Ecko Enter­tain­ment will take care of the pro­gram­ming part and it will work closely with Show­time to take Dex­ter to the inter­ac­tive space. The Hol­ly­wood Reporter writes that the game is being designed for mul­ti­ple plat­forms, includ­ing the Playsta­tion 3 and Xbox 360.

Unfor­tu­nately, the game cur­rently is in pre-production so there’s noth­ing to dis­cuss yet. Still, I can’t help myself. I have to think of an obscure mix of Hit­man and an adven­ture game. Since Dex­ter does a lot of plan­ning that’s now shown on TV that’s some­thing the player will have to do in the game. In my opin­ion that’s a key fea­ture and it’s quite rem­i­nis­cent of Hit­man. Dexter’s day work seems to have a lot in com­mon with CSI so it’s prob­a­bly more than an edu­cated guess that this part of the game will have an adven­ture touch. Ah, enough spec­u­la­tion. I’ll try to keep on top of that game.