Archive for November 6th, 2008

Dollhouse Debuts In Feb. On Fridays

In a surprise move, Fox announced that it will debut ’s much-anticipated but troubled SF series Dollhouse in a problematic Friday-night timeslot on Feb. 13, 2009, following Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which also moves to Fridays from Mondays on that day.

New “Trek” Film Will Have Burger King Tie-In

Next year’s “Star Trek” will feature a licensing tie-in with the fast-food chain Burger King according to TrekMovie.
Burger King confirmed the tie-in earlier this week during their quarterly investor conference call. CEO John Chidsey stated “we believe our movie lineup with The Pink Panther, Star Trek, and Transformers will resonate with super fans and [...]

Halo Wars Dated

MS today announced that Halo Wars, the much-anticipated Halo RTS, finally has a date. Sort of, anyway. February 2009 is the new narrowed-down released window. You have a one out of 28 chance of getting the date right. Click read more for the full info.
PRESS RELEASE
Today, Microsoft Game Studios and Ensemble Studios announced that the [...]

Activision CEO Explains Why Ghostbusters and 50 Cent Were Dropped

Following the merger between Activision and Vivendi to form Activision Blizzard, it was announced that a number of games — including high profile titles like Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend — were being dropped. Disappointing as it was, it was a mind-boggling decision to many gamers, given that Activision decided to retain the rights [...]

Turbine To Announce Console MMO Projects Next Year

The LOTR dev team over at Turbine has revealed that they will be announcing MMO titles for the consoles early next year. Jeff Steefel, dev over at the studio, told Videogaming247 that they were working closely with the companies to deliver MMOs to console gamers. The process is still early on, though, so do not [...]

Fallout 3 Sells Big

Bethesda Softworks Announces Successful Launch of Fallout 3 is the press release with some very large numbers from the launch of Fallout 3 that make it hard to dispute their use of the word “successful.” Bethesda announces having shipped approximately 4.7 million copies of the post-apocalyptic RPG sequel for Windows and consoles, saying this represents [...]

Robin, Nightwing, Birds Of Prey Canceled

According to the publisher, the February-shipping issues of Robin, Nightwing and Birds of Prey will be the final issues of the respective series.
As well as being the final issues, Robin #183, Nightwing #153 and Birds of Prey #127 will end eras for Batman-related titles, as each stretches back at least nine years.
The three [...]