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Warren Zide (American Pie) is bringing to life The Harvard Zombie Massacre, buying up the comedy-horror spec script by newcomers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, says Vareity.
Zide will produce through his Parallel Zide with Ryan Lewis executive producing. Shooting is planned for early next year. [...]

Wizards of the Coast has announced a sweeping redesign of its Magic: The Gathering products beginning with its Shards of Alara block, which premieres this fall. The changes include the size of sets, the rarity scheme, the composition of boosters and Fat Packs, Intro Packs instead of Theme Decks, and the associated publishing schedule. [...]

Marvel is pleased to unveil superstar artist David Finch’s cover to Ultimates 3 #4, the next chapter in the sold-out series that has fans everywhere buzzing!
 

 
The dream team of Eisner-winning, Emmy-nominated writer Jeph Loeb (Hulk, television’s Heroes) and the acclaimed art team of Joe Madureira & Christian Lichtner continue the March on Ultimatum as [...]

Variety is reporting that Holding Pictures has acquired the rights to Steve Niles’ graphic novel Wake the Dead and has hired Jay Russell (The Water Horse, Ladder 49, Tuck Everlasting) to direct from a screenplay by James V. Hart (August Rush, Hook, Bram Stoker’s Dracula).

Published by IDW, Wake the Dead, a modern re-imagining of [...]

Okay, maybe we’re exaggerating just a tiny bit with that number. Actually, word has it there could be up to 20 more robots in the sequel; this based on a throwaway line written by Roberto Orci on Don Murphy’s message board. He says, "I’d love and think we could almost barely manage ten on each [...]

Xbox and Xbox Live product manager Aaron Greenberg admitted in a recent interview that Microsoft should have explained XBLA’s delisting process a little better.
Greenberg told MTV Multiplayer’s Patrick Klepek:
“The reality is we’re not removing any games from the service, if you will. They’ll always be there for purchase. Think about a book on Amazon. It’s [...]

The voice acting cast of The Simpsons has signed a four-year deal with Fox, resolving a standoff which has delayed production of the next season of the show and curtailed the number of episodes from 22 to 20 (read Toon Zone News’ earlier coverage).
Other than noting that actor Dan Castellaneta has been named a consulting [...]

Today’s Age of Conan Update Notes! The US servers are now offline for the update and expected downtime is 5 hours. The EU servers have already gone through their updates and are back up again.
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Fixed some more server and client crashes.
An issue which could make [...]

For years, Microsoft hasn’t really had serious competition in the general-purpose applications space. But if Adobe succeeds in transplanting its Acrobat brand into word processing and online services, Microsoft could have a fight on its hands.

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Rising online game firm Trion World Network is partnering with the Sci Fi Channel in a new co-development deal.
Trion, which is currently working towards releasing its first game, told Next-Gen back in 2006 that its approach to gaming is akin to "interactive television."
Monday’s announced agreement with cable network Sci Fi makes [...]