'Industry' has a new player with Master P (thanks FiringSquad) reports on a collaboration between rapper Master P and actor Seth Green to create a role-playing game with a hip-hop musical theme to fill the questionable void left by the demise of Hip-Hop Legends (story). Details are scant at this point, but here's a bit:

The video game world is bringing together the unlikely duo of rapper Master P and actor Seth Green.

Master P's P Miller Enterprises is partnering on the development of an original hip-hop-themed role-playing game with Green and Matthew Senreich of Stoopid Monkey Prods. ("Robot Chicken") and ShadowMachine Films ("Moral Orel").

"Play the Industry" will enable gamers to enter a 3-D world and then work their way through up to stardom either as an athlete, power broker, hip-hop artist or other character.

Many of the details are being worked out, including whether this will be a disc-based or online-only game. But Senreich suggested that the final product likely will be more akin to "The Sims," the popular online experience from Electronic Arts, than a fighting or shooting game.

"You can play agent, you can play mogul, you play all sorts of different characters," Senreich said of "Industry."

Although in its early stages, Stoopid Monkey and ShadowMachine already are working on a script for the game, talking with developers about taking on the project and lining up financing. The partners hope to have a developer on board in the next several months and a release by late 2009.