Archive for November 2nd, 2008

Two ‘Heroes’ Producers Fired in Shake-Up

Struggling to find consistent ratings and leaving fans turned off by developments in the show’s third season, Heroes has parted ways with co-executive producers Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb.

Variety reports that the pair were axed because of NBC’s “frustration with the creative direction of the show.” Financial concerns might have also played a part in [...]

Microsoft Promises Xbox Live Won’t Crap The Bed Again

During the 2007 holiday season, the sudden influx of new Xbox 360 owners onto Xbox Live overwhelmed the servers and caused sporadic service outages. This left many gamers…perturbed. Well, Microsoft was angry too and they swear those sort of problems won’t happen again.

Blizzard Wants StarCraft 2 to be Mom Friendly

It’s the way of the world these days, and it seems even a famously hardcore real-time strategy series is no longer safe — the simple fact is casual gamers are on developers minds. Speaking to MTV Multiplayer, Blizzard producer Chris Sigaty said that while StarCraft 2 is certainly being made to appeal to [...]

‘Transformers’ Sequel Wraps Production

Considering that the location shooting took Michael Bay and his crew from California to Pennsylvania, down the seaboard a bit to around Washington D.C., over to New Mexico, and jetting over to Jordan, and that it had to shoot around the injury to its star Shia LaBeouf for a little while, it’s really quite an [...]