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Publishers Are Supporting Rentals to Eliminate Second Hand

In the long running fight against the second hand market for video games it seems that big publishers like Electronic Arts and Ubisoft are now interested in making the rental market more attractive via retailers like Blockbuster.Gerry Butler, who is the commercial director at Blockbuster, told MCV that, “We hav...

22 November 2011
10:27 GMT

Blockbuster Offers Unlimited Rentals for Gears of War 3 Buyers

Entertainment oriented retail chain Blockbuster has announced that all those who come into its stores in order to buy a copy of Gears of War 3, the latest third person shooter from developers Epic Games and publisher Microsoft, will be able to also get unlimited in-store rentals for both movies and other video games....

21 September 2011
09:59 GMT

Blockbusters Continue to Power Gaming Industry, Says Activision

Activision Blizzard has managed to post another set of good quarterly financial results and the publisher sees this as a vindication of its blockbuster powered business model, one that will not suffer any changes in the near future. Eric Hirshberg, who is the chief executive officer of Activision Publishing, has t...

4 August 2011
10:38 GMT

Rumor Mill: PlayStation Vita Launches in the United Kingdom on October 28

A flyer that is distributed by the United Kingdom based locations of the retail chain Blockbuster shows a launch date of October 28 for the new PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony. The last Friday of October is said to be the day when gamers would be able to pick up two different models of the Vita in stores. S...

2 August 2011
18:41 GMT

Weekend Reading: Call of Duty and the Over Reliance on Blockbusters

Call of Duty: Black Ops is now out, leading to more than 1 million players enjoying it at the same time on Xbox Live for the Microsoft home console soon after launch and probably leading to Activision preparing extensive press releases about the huge sales numbers posted in the first week.And already fans and comment...

13 November 2010
12:51 GMT

Christopher Nolan Wants an Inception Video Game

Christopher Nolan, the director of the biggest movie of the year, Inception, has revealed that he is currently looking into developing a video game, based on the extremely popular and thought-provoking movie.According to Nolan, a video game based on the film might actually work, if it is given enough development time...

22 September 2010
02:57 GMT

HP, Blockbuster and Lite-On Plan Affordable Multimedia PC

HP's Envy 14 may have only just entered stores, but there seems to be no rest for the world's largest supplier of personal computers. In fact, Hewlett-Packard may be plotting and scheming as we speak, seeking to increase its hold on a certain market segment that has, so far, not grown as quickly as one may...

28 June 2010
07:54 GMT

Blockbuster to Launch Apple TV Rival

Blockbuster, movie rental giant, is taking a blow (and certainly not a bow) at Apple's digital media receiver, the Apple TV. The company is planning to introduce a set-top device similar to Apple's in the near future. It will compete with the Apple TV directly, as Movielink has developed a strong partnershi...

14 April 2008
08:53 GMT

Nintendogs Sells More Copies Than Halo!

Are you familiar with Wikipedia? Everyone is these days, but what the site lacks is reliability, specially since anyone can edit the content that's available on the world-famous Wiki. Get a decent number of complaints and any fake info will be changed. However, there's a funny list of "best-selling video ga...

4 October 2007
04:26 GMT

Box-Office Magic with Harry Potter

Everyone talked last week about the "Transformers" movie and how much of a success that was and how it's gonna be the beginning of a beautiful franchise and all that. Well I say the "Transformers" movie didn't quite stand out to the task because it was topped by a children's film. Although Harry Potter...

16 July 2007
10:57 GMT


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