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Representatives from Activision have confirmed that the company has acquired the remaining 70% of developer Infinity Ward that it did not already own. The company took a 30% interest in the studio in May 2002, with an option to buy the rest - which it has now exercised. Infinity Ward are the developers of [...]

Boll KG, studio behind the film of 2003, House of the Dead, has announced that they’ll be making a movie based around Gas Powered Games’ RPG, Dungeon Siege:
Executive producer and director Dr. Uwe Boll, expects to begin filming “Dungeon Siege” in late 2004, and estimates a budget in the $50 million range. Interactive Film Sales [...]

There’s always been a problem in PDA and smartphone design. You want the screen to be as big as possible to make it more useful, but you want the device to be as small as possible so that people like it and feel comfortable carrying it around. This leads to inevitable tradeoffs, and [...]

Batman #620

DC Comics has announced that its Batman #620 sold out at the publisher and at Diamond three days after its in-store date of October 22. This issue features the first chapter of the six-part “Broken City” storyline by the 100 Bullets creative team of writer Brian Azzarello, artist Eduardo Risso, and cover artist Dave [...]

With Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft is introducing a set of security technologies that will improve Windows XP-based computers’ ability to withstand malicious attacks from viruses and worms.
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Bethesda Softworks announced that it has begun manufacturing The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year (GotY) edition for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft and expects the title to be in stores early next week. The Morrowind GotY includes the original Morrowind, along with content from the two Morrowind expansions: Tribunal and [...]

Atari today pushed back the release dates for two anticipated games, one of which will now miss the lucrative holiday shopping season.
The first game, the massively multiplayer online game Horizons: Empire of Istaria, was bumped back to December 9 from its original release window in November. With the extra few weeks of development, the team [...]

“Wall Street is not the only one wooing Google. Microsoft is as well. “According to company executives and others briefed on the discussions, Microsoft - desperate to capture a slice of the popular and ad-generating search business - approached Google within the last two months to discuss the possibility of a takeover.”
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