This is one of those times that I don’t mind admitting I was wrong. Despite my ho-humming yesterday, the “top-secret new product” that was announced at midnight is actually pretty darned cool.
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A man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store questioned the currency’s legitimacy and called police.
According to an account in the Baltimore Sun, 57-year-old Mike Bolesta was shocked to find himself taken to the Baltimore County lockup in Cockeysville, Md., [...]
The Los Angeles Times has published an article about the new Star Wars CGI-animated series (free registration required), speaking with supervising director Dave Filoni (Avatar the Last Airbender) and executive producer Catherine Winder. The article notes that most of the production of the series will be done in Singapore, where Lucasfilm has set up a [...]
NCsoft North America launched today the free-to-play MMO Dungeon Runners, the first of a series of free MMO games from NCsoft, the firm told Next-Gen today.
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MS has announced that Mad Tracks, the 3D Racing party game, will be available on the Xbox Live Arcade worldwide starting tomorrow. The game will cost 800 MS points, rather steep for an XBLA release. Click read more for the full info.PRESS RELEASEr>Ready. . .set. . .race! The 3D racing party game, “Mad Tracks,” will [...]
This October, Wizards of the Coast is rolling out Inn-Fighting: D&D Dice Game, designed by Rob Heinsoo who created the Three-Dragon Ante card game and was lead designer for the D&D Miniature Game.
In Inn-Fighting, a roll of the dice determines which bar brawling action a player makes next, such as throwing a punch, smashing a [...]
20th Century Fox and the Franklin Mint created and put into nation-wide circulation 40,000 Silver Surfer quarters to promote the release of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer last week. The U.S. Mint issued a statement Friday asserting that it is illegal to turn a coin into an advertising tool and warned that [...]
Universal Pictures has released a synopsis for The Incredible Hulk, the Marvel Studios film it will distribute next year.
Here’s how the film is described:
“The explosive, action-packed adventure in one of the all-time most popular superhero sagas unfolds with a cure in reach for the world’s most primal force of fury: The Incredible Hulk. We find [...]
Drysc has revealed some much anticipated information about the upcoming second arena season in World of Warcraft, including a date and the details about the switch-over:
We are currently planning to end the first season and begin Arena Season 2 on June 12, 2007 to coincide with a small patch. Please be aware that this may [...]
According to IESB.net, Singer is out and Silver is looking to replace him with somebody a little more, I dunno malleable? That might explain why Silver’s interested in hiring a first-timer like Joe Kosinski: So the producer knows he won’t have to deal with any delays or power struggles. (That’s [...]
