Archive | January, 2010
Ubisoft and 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising Integrate Stereoscopic RealD Format Into James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game
Technology from World’s Leading 3D Entertainment Brand Promises Plug-and-Play 3D animation Console Gaming Experience RealD, the world’s leading 3D technology provider for cinema and professional applications, announced today that Ubisoft, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox Licensing), has licensed and integrated the company’s proprietary stereoscopic RealD Format into James Cameron’s Avatar™: The [...]
Continue reading...‘No Animals Were Harmed’ in ‘Puppy Bowl VI’
29. January 2010
Playful Pups, Bunny Cheerleaders and Hamsters Flying a Blimp For the sixth consecutive year, Animal Planet’s “Puppy Bowl” television animation program — started in 2005 as an alternative to the Super Bowl — has earned the American Humane Association’s “No Animals Were Harmed”® end-credit disclaimer. This year’s “players” include 43 puppies and 20 kittens providing halftime entertainment. [...]
Continue reading...Guitar Hero’s February Downloadable Content Lineup Packs a Powerful Punch With Fresh Music From Top Bands
29. January 2010
Heavy Metal Powerhouse Black Sabbath Debuts Master Tracks as Compatible Guitar Hero(R) 5 and Band Hero Downloadable Songs Guitar Hero Music Library Further Expands with Hit Songs and New Music from 30 Seconds To Mars, Breaking Benjamin and Third Eye Blind Guitar Hero® cranks up the heat in February with a strong lineup of weekly downloadable songs [...]
Continue reading...Marvel Studios and Columbia Records Power Up AC/DC Music Promotion for ‘IRON MAN 2′ Motion Picture Soundtrack
27. January 2010
Worldwide Video Premiere of ‘Shoot To Thrill’ Today, January 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. EST AC/DC’s Music to be featured in ‘IRON MAN 2′; Band to Release AC/DC: Iron Man 2 Album on Monday April 19, 2010 Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC’s music will be featured in Marvel Studios’ “IRON MAN [...]
Continue reading...Marvel Studios and Columbia Records Power Up AC/DC Music Promotion for ‘IRON MAN 2′ Motion Picture Soundtrack
27. January 2010
Worldwide Video Premiere of ‘Shoot To Thrill’ Today, January 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. EST AC/DC’s Music to be featured in ‘IRON MAN 2′; Band to Release AC/DC: Iron Man 2 Album on Monday April 19, 2010 Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC’s music will be featured in Marvel Studios’ “IRON MAN [...]
Continue reading...Record-Breaking Collection of Pokemon Memorabilia Appears in Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition
27. January 2010
12,000-PIECE COLLECTION FILLS COLLECTOR’S FAMILY’S ENTIRE HOUSE! Twenty one year-old Lisa Courtney from Hertfordshire, England is celebrating this week after being officially recognised as the individual with the largest Pokemon animation memorabilia collection in the world, having accumulated 12,113 different items over 13 years. Her incredible record-breaking collection, which is still growing in size, has [...]
Continue reading...Surrogates Comes to Blu-ray and DVD, Atonement on Blu-ray, Plus More
27. January 2010
“Vfx were really in a supporting role on this and we focused a lot on Bruce Willis’ surrogate character and finding his look and making him consistent through the movie, which took a long time,” concedes Mark Stetson, vfx animation supervisor. “They assigned the work to Synthespian Studios, Jeff Kleiser’s company, where they scanned a digital [...]
Continue reading...Built-in Video Capture to Ship with Just Cause 2
25. January 2010
PlayStation players to publish their greatest achievements to YouTube Square Enix London Studios, a part of Square Enix Europe, today announced that the video game Just Cause® 2 for the PlayStation® 3 will ship with a built-in video capture feature, allowing players to record clips of their greatest in-game exploits and upload directly to YouTube®. With some [...]
Continue reading...Atari and Del Taco Offer Fans Limited Edition Cups & Early Free Access To Star Trek(TM) Online
25. January 2010
Atari, Inc., one of the world’s most recognized video game publishers, and Del Taco, the nation’s No. 2 Mexican quick serve chain, announced today a special promotion allowing eager fans early access to the highly anticipated MMO, Star Trek Online. Created by acclaimed developers Cryptic Studios™, Star Trek Online for PC is set to release [...]
Continue reading...Snatch Mr. Fox on DVD/Blu-ray in March
25. January 2010
Academy Award-winning Hollywood heavyweights George Clooney (*Up In The Air*) and Meryl Streep (*It’s Complicated*) lend their voices to the hilarious, heartwarming and dazzling stop-motion animation Adventure from visionary director Wes Anderson (*The Royal Tenebaums*) *Fantastic Mr. Fox*, arriving as a Blu-ray Disc/DVD Combo Pack and on DVD March 23 from Twentieth Century Fox Home [...]
Continue reading...Red Bull Music Academy Radio iPhone App
23. January 2010
Never lacking for energy, Red Bull explores its music side with the Red Bull Music Academy Radio iPhone application. Unlike your normal music experience wherein you will just shuffle your music library, the new Red Bull music iPhone mobile application will give a different look to listeners by showing them what they are checking on their [...]
Continue reading...Up, Mr. Fox, Coraline Land BAFTA Nods
22. January 2010
Avatar, An Education and The Hurt Locker have each received eight nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010. The 3D animation District 9 has seven nominations; Inglourious Basterds and Up in the Air have six nominations apiece; and Coco Before Chanel, Nowhere Boy, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and Up [...]
Continue reading...Robot Chicken Gets Two-Season Pick-Up
22. January 2010
Robot Chicken creators/executive producers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich have made a deal with Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim for a two-season, 40-episode pick-up for Seasons five and six. Robot Chicken, the highest-rated original animation series on Adult Swim, began airing in February 2005 and remains the top-rated original on the network. The series has been Emmy-nominated [...]
Continue reading...DJ Hero Ranks as Highest Grossing New IP in the U.S. and Europe for Calendar 2009
20. January 2010
Activision Blizzard, Inc. announced today that DJ Hero™ was the #1 new intellectual property by revenue in the U.S. and Europe for calendar 2009, according to The NPD Group. The video game has garnered critical acclaim, securing more than 15 Best Music Game Awards in the U.S. alone and was featured in more than [...]
Continue reading...Uncharted 2, Flower, Assassin’s Creed II Lead Finalists for the Tenth Annual Game Developers Choice Awards
20. January 2010
Dragon Age: Origins, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Demon’s Souls Included In Nominations for the Game of the Year Award in Industry’s Prestigious Peer-Based Video Game Awards Organizers have revealed the nominees for the tenth annual Game Developers Choice Awards, the leading peer-based video game industry awards. Nominations this year are led by Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2, with [...]
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29. January 2010
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