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Astro Boy Stars Play for Game
Freddie Highmore and Kristen Bell, the stars of the upcoming CG-animated movie Astro Boy, will reprise their roles for D3 Publishing’s tie-in Astro Boy: The Video Game. As in the movie, Highmore plays boy robot Astro Boy while Bell plays Cora in the game, which takes players on an epic [...]
Ontario Invests in Toronto Ubisoft Studio
Video game giant Ubisoft is coming to Canada, announcing plans to open a major video game studio and create 800 high-quality jobs over the next decade. The studio will open in Toronto, which the company chose for its competitive tax environment, talent pool and connections to the film industry. The [...]
WB Completes Midway Assets Purchase
Warner Bros. has completed its purchase of the assets of Midway Games, including the rights to such well-known gaming franchises as Mortal Kombat, Spy Hunter and Joust. The studio picked up the assets in bankruptcy court for $33 million in a deal approved last week by the judge, reports Variety. [...]
THQ, Sony Execs Join MTV Games
MTV Games has appointed two industry veterans to executive positoiins. Scott Guthrie, previously executive VP of publishing for THQ, is now executive VP and general manager of MTV Games. Also joining the company as senior VP of sales is David Cox, previously senior director of sales and merchandising for Sony [...]
Nick’s AddictingGames Honors Online Favorites
Nickelodeon’s AddictingGames Showdown honored Saturday night online video games chosen by the public in 10 cool and oddball categories ranching from Greatest Escape Game to Best Performance by a Robot. The winners were announced on a Nick TV special hosted by Jerry Trainor, who plays Spencer Shay on the net’s [...]
Alfred Hedgehog Video Game Detected
Young video game players soon will join TV viewers in exploring The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog. A video game based on the animated series will launch in January for the PC and the Nintendo Wii platforms. The game is a joint production of Gaumont-Alphanim, Muse Entertainment and Tribal Nova. Based [...]
Disney’s G-Force Brings 3-D to Gaming
First the movies went 3-D ‘ now get ready to start wearing glasses to play the latest videogames. Disney Interactive Studios’ G-Force game, based on the upcoming movie, hits in July and will support 3-D stereoscopic play in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms, reports the U.K. gaming site [...]
Miyamoto Tops Gamemakers’ Hero Poll
Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of such classic games as Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and F-Zero, has topped a survey of game developers’ industry hero. The survey, commissioned by the Develop Conference in Brighton, England, polled 9,000 game developers across the globe. The results were compiled [...]
E3 News: Sony, Nintendo Move on Gear, Game Titles
Videogame giants Sony and Nintendo kicked off the first day of E3 by announcing a slew of new titles and more than a few twists on the hardware as they looked to gain favor with the gaming industry. Nintendo held its press conference early, announcing sequels and updates to popular [...]
E3 Returns With New Maturity, Same Old Excitement
E3′s return to the Los Angeles Convention Center this year is also a return to the show’s roots. Once known for its big splashy displays, scantily clad booth babes and eardrum-challenging audio output, the show returns from a two-year experiment as a scaled-back media and trade event a little more [...]
BBC Says Good-Bye to...
The BBC Trust has confirmed that children’s programs will no longer be shown...
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