EA to publish new Star Wars games from DICE, BioWare and Visceral
Electronic Arts has announced that it has signed a multi-year deal with Disney to develop and publish new games based on the Star Wars universe for core gaming audiences. More...
Electronic Arts has announced that it has signed a multi-year deal with Disney to develop and publish new games based on the Star Wars universe for core gaming audiences. More...
LucasArts, the game development studio and publishing arm of LucasFilm, will shut down after over 30 years in operations thanks to a decision made by LucasFilm's new owner Disney. More...
It's not a Pixar movie, even though it has John Lasseter as executive producer, but Disney's Wreck-It Ralph looks like it might be the ultimate gaming movie, featuring everyone from Bowser to Bison More...
The state of New York has removed its registered sex offenders from the online gaming services of companies including Microsoft, Sony, Apple, Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. and Disney. More...
With the passing of Apple founder Steve Jobs, the future of the company he created is sailing into unknown territory under the leadership of CEO Tim Cook. More...
A former executive from Blizzard and Cryptic Studios has just been named as the new head of Disney Interactive's Marvel Comics games division. The company announced today via an email press release that Bill Roper... More...
Disney Interactive has decided to shut down the UK-based Black Rock Studios, one of its internal game development studios. The shut down, as reported by VG247.com, means that 40 team members are now out looking... More...
Microsoft knows that to successfully launch Windows 8 to the consumers, you must execute a near flawless media campaign leading up to the platform release. Because of this, Microsoft has pulled in a director from... More...
The secret military special operations force SEAL Team Six gained a ton of great publicity as the team went into Pakistan to go after, and eventually kill, terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden. Now, in an... More...
Hulu may have reimagined television content on the Internet almost three years ago, but lately the video-on-demand website's business has not been doing as well as its owners would have liked. And now The Wallstreet... More...
Streaming media company Netflix has signed a deal with the Disney-ABC Television Group that will bring streaming content from ABC, Disney, and ABC Family to Netflix customers. Also included with the vast number of television... More...
Unlike other members of the Blu-ray Association, who always withdraw from HD DVD votes, Walt Disney Home Entertainment, a major Hollywood studio and one of the strongest backers of Blu-ray disc format, voted for approval... More...
Walt Disney Co, the No.2 U.S. entertainment company, said on Monday it plans to enter the Japanese mobile phone market early next year using local carrier Softbank Corp's network. Disney, which plans to halt its... More...
The Walt Disney Company has been censured by the UK advertising watchdog for not making clear that a children's mobile phone game cost £5 in its advertising. Disney broke Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) rules on... More...
The Walt Disney Company plans to pull the plug on its branded cell phone service by the end of the year saying there were problems getting the phone into large retailers. "We decided that changing... More...
Social networking, a phenomenon which has experienced enormous growth since MySpace brought it into the mainstream, apparently has become so profitable that even Disney, mastermind behind animated classics such as Snow White and the Seven... More...
YouTube says it's now really close to trialling the video fingerprinting technology it has reckons will put an end to its status as a copyright renegade, which won it a $1bn lawsuit from Viacom. The... More...
Cable operator Comcast is investigating how hardcore pornography was broadcast during a popular cartoon program on the Disney Channel. Customer Paul Dunleavy would also like to know. He was stunned Tuesday morning to find his... More...
Walt Disney has confirmed that it has found backdated stock options at Pixar prior to its acquisition in January 2006 and has cleared Steve Jobs (CEO of Pixar at the time) of any wrongdoing. "The... More...
Walt Disney has signed a deal with Macrovision to distribute Disney-branded games in Europe and Australia via Macrovision's games network, effectively extending Disney's reach in the downloadable casual games market. The games currently available on... More...
At CES 2007, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced the massively multiplayer Pirates of the Caribbean will be coming later this year. The title will be available thanks to the redesigned Disney.com website that is aimed... More...
The Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday became the latest Hollywood studio to offer movies for sale via the Internet by providing films like recent thriller "Flightplan" to CinemaNow, the online service said. CinemaNow, which is... More...
Disney will soon offer shows like Lost and Desperate Housewives for free online, the AP reports. The shows will be available the morning after they air, and will be hosted in... More...
Walt Disney Co. has already sold more than 1.5 million digital downloads of television shows such as "Lost," "Desperate Housewives, and "Kim Possible" through Apple's iTunes, but the company is also looking to target iTunes... More...
The post-Eisner Walt Disney is close to buying Pixar Animation Studios in a deal that could allow Steve Jobs and his team to exert significant creative influence at the entertainment giant, reports The Wall Street... More...
The Walt Disney Company is adding content from its ESPN channel and ABC sports to the shows it already sells on Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iTunes online music and video store. Walt Disney said on... More...
Comcast said Wednesday that it has withdrawn its multibillion-dollar bid to buy Walt Disney after investors and Disney executives failed to embrace the acquisition. "I'm very comfortable with our decision to withdraw... More...
Microsoft will not get involved in any potential acquisition of Disney, the software maker's chairman said late Wednesday. Bill Gates was responding to a question from Channel Thirteen's Charlie Rose about Comcast's... More...
Cable TV giant Comcast announced Wednesday that it was launching a surprise $66 billion bid to merge with Walt Disney, a deal that would create one of the largest media and distribution companies in the... More...
Microsoft and the Walt Disney Co. have struck an alliance that will see the two companies working closely together to develop digital media content and delivery systems, the companies are expected to announce Monday. ... More...
Pixar Animation Studios Inc. said Thursday it ended talks with Walt Disney Co. to extend a five-picture deal for Disney to distribute Pixar films. Pixar, the computer animation pioneer founded by Apple... More...
Video game creator American McGee, who most recently brought a twisted retelling of "Alice in Wonderland" to gamers, has turned his imagination on The Wizard of Oz, says The Hollywood Reporter. Jerry Bruckheimer... More...
The latest 'Hollywood buzz' has Apple CEO Steve Jobs in line for a position on the board of Walt Disney Co. According to the New York Post, the company is looking for a new second-in-command... More...
Last year, when the Walt Disney Co.'s feature animation unit, in Burbank, Calif., announced that it was using Linux for digital animation work, speculation grew that Adobe Systems Inc. would finally port its products to... More...
That is the warning Walt Disney will issue this August when it begins to "rent" DVDs that are set to become unplayable after two days and that therefore do not have to be returned. ... More...