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The New Zealand Herald and many others such as Yahoo/AP are reporting that Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has swept the Oscars by winning in all the 11 categories it was nominated in. Good to see Peter Jackson finally got the Best Director award! The official Oscar site has a full [...]

A few images of the original Star Wars trilogy DVD box set due in September of this year. I use the word images because it appears there will be three distinct different packaging themes. One theme titled “The Final Conflict” will have Darth Vaders helmet on the box. The “Jedi Vs. Darkside” box art has [...]

There’s a Star Wars Battlefront Q&A on SWBattlefront.net chatting with Jens Andersen of Pandemic Studios about Star Wars Battlefront, the upcoming Force-powered multiplayer shooter. Among other things, the conversation discusses vehicles, weapons, player classes, NPCs like the Jedi, as well as a good bit of detail about the sizes of the battles and the types [...]

George Lucas is legendary for bringing digital technology into the movies, but his next release may drive fans to digital piracy instead. The first three Star Wars movies are scheduled to come out on DVD this September after years of delays, but the releases will include only Lucas’ modified 1997 versions of his trilogy. The [...]

Hercules is no more in the videocard market. They are also out of the LCD market. The word is that on both markets they got to little workspace to work with. Both ATI and Samsung (producer of the LCD screens) are not willing to let Hercules build products according to the Hercules way.
The Hercules [...]

The April issue of Wizard Magazine features a brief but insightful interview with Iron Man screenwriters Alfred Gough & Miles Millar. While neither scribe spilled the beans on the movie’s plot, Millar did reveal that Tony Stark won’t become the Armored Avenger in quite the same manner he did in the Marvel comics.

“It had to [...]

Microsoft is readying the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) upgrade for release in mid-2004. The upgrade will address many of the security problems that currently plague the company’s flagship operating system.
For example, the current Internet Connection Firewall is disabled by default and most users find it difficult to configure. In WinXP SP2 the feature [...]

In a recent interview attended by IGN FilmForce, filmmaker David Goyer has confirmed plans to bring Marvel’s Merc-With-A-Mouth, Deadpool, to the big screen, with Blade: Trinity star Ryan Reynolds tapped to play the title role.
“I want to do something else with Ryan Reynolds because I really loved working with him and New Line wants to [...]

It was hinted on GameGossip all the way back in October, but now it’s official. John Romero, now with Midway, is working on the new Gauntlet game for the company. Not much is known about the game currently, other than Romero is supervising its development. I think Romero has served his time for the fiasco [...]

Vivendi Universal Games has announced that it will ship Counter-Strike: Condition Zero for the PC to retailers on March 23. Co-developed by Valve Software and Turtle Rock Studios, the mostly single player game features an offline career, weather effects, “special enhancements” for online play, including improved graphics. Customers who pre-order at EB, Gamestop, Best Buy, [...]