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Five decades after Godzilla first rose from the ocean, this monstrous movie star is about to take a break from show business.
Hit by slumping box office sales for the iconic series, Japan’s Toho Co. is planning to shelve its Godzilla films after this year’s finale.
Toho studios’ executive producer, Shogo Tomiyama, said Thursday that [...]

Collectors have made an online rush to buy BellSouth’s boxy old pay phones that have been refurbished for home use, after the Atlanta-based company decided to pull out of a coin-operated phone business that had withered in the wireless age.
“It’s a novelty. You just don’t usually see pay phones in people’s homes,” said Hugh [...]

Testers are reporting that Microsoft is blazing down the path toward a release candidate for Windows Update 5.0. The new Windows Update will coincide with the launch of Windows XP Service Pack 2, and is a piece of a larger company-wide effort to improve the patching process. A friendly reminder, you should be checking [...]

Starting March 13th, ABC Family will modify its weekend morning Jetix lineup. The movie and Medabots will be removed, and in its place the network will add Spider-Man and, in a surprising move, Gargoyles. All shows will air in hour blocks with the exception of Power Rangers, which splits the hour between classic “Best of” [...]

Beyond quarterly figures from Microsoft, NPD figures and so on, hardware sales for the Xbox aren’t gone into often, and even less with respect to unit sales in Canada. Earlier today however, in an article run on Canada.com on some of the non-gaming uses some users are putting Xbox to (Linux, ROMs, watching Divx, etc), [...]

Atari sends word that Unreal Tournament 2004 is gold, and that Epic’s multiplayer shooter sequel is due in stores “worldwide” on March 15:
Unreal Tournament 2004 was developed by Epic Games in conjunction with Digital Extremes. The game builds on the success of past installments, taking the franchise to the next level with the introduction of [...]

Just as Sony puts the finishing touches on its $200 million production of “Spider-Man 2,” Marvel Enterprises is already crooning about “Spider-Man 3.”
News comes as the marketing push for “Spider-Man 2,” which bows July 2, is about to kick into overdrive. Studio is lining up new corporate sponsors and ramping up its worldwide marketing [...]

Microsoft Game Studios quietly updated its games section with an all-new Dungeon Siege 2 page. The page, in addition to reiterating previous information on the game, finally pins a release date down for the game. Formerly set with a date sometime during 2004, the page shows that Dungeon Siege 2 will ship during Holiday 2004. [...]

Looks like a very modern update for “Green Hornet”, juding from this very early take on the Green Hornet logo that looks to be from Miramax. With the film still a year off, there’s plenty of time for concept logos and art, though this seems to be in step with the statements that Kevin has [...]