By: Eddie Makuch Collectible card game Scrolls, the first post-Minecraft game from Mojang, will launch through a paid beta next week. Gamers can grab the game for PC and Mac on June 3 for 13/€15/$20. The paid beta for Scrolls was originally intended to launch by the end of April. No reason why given for the delay. Scrolls will launch in the wake of Minecraft’s runaway success. The … Continue reading Scrolls hits open beta next week
By: Erren Van Duine The second entry in GameTrailers’ Timeline series – focusing on Kingdom Hearts – is finally here. The video runs nearly an hour in length and runs through the entire Kingdom Hearts series, before placing each title in its perspective order in the timeline. You can view the video through GameTrailers.com here. We’ll be sure to update this post when a YouTube version … Continue reading GameTrailers’ Kingdom Hearts timeline video
By: Dara Kerr In a pretrial hearing for the antitrust lawsuit, a judge says the Justice Department will be able to show direct evidence that Apple “facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of e-books.” Pressure seems to be mounting for Apple in the e-book lawsuit brought against it and five publishers by the U.S. Justice Department. With less than two weeks before the trial is … Continue reading Judge: Evidence shows Apple colluded to fix e-book prices
By: Sean O’Connell Dennis Lehane’s name is becoming a proven brand in Hollywood as more A-listers gravitate to the author and screenwriter’s prose … and his past works. Ben Affleck broke on the scene with an adaptation of Lehan’s best-selling Gone Baby Gone. The two plan to collaborate again on a feature-length version of the author’s book Live By Night. And now Lehane’s locking up another powerful … Continue reading Leonardo DiCaprio Wants Dennis Lehane To Pen Travis McGee
By: Zorine Te The Xbox One console will contain a non-replaceable 500GB hard drive, Microsoft has confirmed in an interview with Engadget. Microsoft’s senior director of product planning, Albert Penello, confirmed that the console would contain an internal 500GB hard drive that cannot be upgraded. By comparison, the Xbox 360 console offered hard drives with varying degrees of capacity and allowed users to replace the hard … Continue reading Xbox One contains non-replaceable hard drive
By: Erren Van Duine Square Enix’s 10th anniversary teaser page – which disappeared the day after it went live nearly a couple months ago – has resurfaced this morning. This time, however, it seems to have some sort of countdown – although as of this writing is unmoving from 00:46:49. The text on the page has a few changes from the original: “As of April 1, 2013 … Continue reading Square Enix 10th anniversary site reopens with a countdown
By: Eric Eisenberg Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens both made a strong move to push themselves out of “child star” status when they appeared alongside a cornrowed James Franco in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, and now their fellow Disney alum, Zac Efron, is trying out some darker material for himself. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the High School Musicalactor has landed the lead role in Narc, a new crime … Continue reading Zac Efron To Become An Informant In True Crime Drama Narc
By: Eddie Makuch Alan Wake and Max Payne developer Remedy Entertainment today announced Quantum Break, an all-new game that will be exclusive to Microsoft’s just-announced Xbox One system. According to its announcement, Quantum Break “blurs the line between television and gameplay, integrating the two into one seamless, uniquely immersive experience.” Remedy Entertainment has been hiring for next-generation game development since March 2012. The studio’s most recent … Continue reading Alan Wake dev reveals Xbox One-exclusive Quantum Break
By: Martin Gaston Sony’s shares jumped up 8 percent immediately after rival hardware maker Microsoft formally unveiled its next-generation Xbox One console. At time of writing, Sony shares on the New York Stock Exchange are up 8.35 percent on where they were before Microsoft took to its custom-built stage at its Redmond campus to announce the successor to the Xbox 360. Sony shares are currently … Continue reading Sony shares leap 8 percent after Xbox One announcement
By: Nick Venable Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) has a pretty long and varied resume, bouncing from one genre of movie to the next and regardless of the final product he serves his purpose and usually goes unscathed in criticism. I’m not sure we’ve seen him channel anything that would make him a good lead in a thriller though. But that may soon change. He’ll … Continue reading Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson To Star In Psychological Thriller Ape
