In today’s Gold Box Deal of the Day, Amazon is offering the Marvel Heroes Collection for $27.99, 60% off the $69.98 MSRP. The collection includes all the Fox-based Marvel films: X-Men, X2, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Daredevil, and Elektra. Not all the movies are quality…
Generally speaking, it’s safe to say that developers play their competitors’ games. The same goes for competitors’ betas, too, although at times they’ll be prevented from doing so by an NDA. Back in August, EA Mythic GM Mark Jacobs discussed the topic of Blizzard employees being in the Warhammer Online beta with MTV Multiplayer. He…
Google bests third quarter income estimates, topping $1.35 billion at a time when financial analysts are concerned about weakness in the online ad market. Google’s solid financial and paid click results indicate keyword advertising on search engines is alive and well. Industry experts will now look to Yahoo next week to see if display advertising…
Yesterday Paramount Pictures released six new photos from JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek (if you havent seen them yet, click here). Entertainment Weekly premiered their extensive cover story earlier. We have three more new photos (one from Yahoo, one from AICN, and one from /film reader Franco L). We’ve also decided to break down the EW…
Wired has posted an interview with Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime, with a few coments on DRM, World of Warcraft and a little hint about Blizzard’s next MMO. Wired.com: … You guys have had a lot of job postings, things that hint at a “next-gen MMO.” It’s a “secret,” but it’s not a very well-kept secret.…
In a recent article on Gamasutra (via Game Politics), Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said he believes half of the people who protested Spore‘s digital rights management (DRM) were actually pirates, "and the other half were people caught up in something that they didn’t understand." Additionally, he believes, if given the chance to have a…
gDespite Iceland being hit particularly hard by the teetering global economy, CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson would like to assure EVE fans (and everyone else) that they’ll be just fine, and that "Iceland is full of tough people, the rest died off centuries ago." It might even make it less pricey to go to Fanfest! Tweet…
Paul W.S. Anderson tells the UK’s Sunday Sun once he’s completed writing a remake of The Long Good Friday (set in modern-day Miami), he "will probably write Resident Evil 4." The last update on a fourth entry came in July when Anderson told MTV that he was in talks with Sony to resume the adventures…
According to DailyGamesNews, Microsoft is the target of a class action lawsuit in California, alleging that not only have too many Xbox 360s failed, but that the company concealed the fact to "compete with the pending launch of Sony’s Playstation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii gaming systems." If it loses the suit, Microsoft would have to…
Environmental friendliness has been all the rage for a while now, but consoles still have a reputation for being energy guzzlers. Now the Environmental Protection Agency aims to change that. Good Clean Tech is reporting that the EPA aims to introduce new energy requirements for consoles starting July 1, 2010. Among them are an auto…
