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Multiplayer for Batman: Arkham City Would Have Affected Single Player Story

The developers at Rocksteady seem to have seriously considered adding a multiplayer mode to last year’s Batman: Arkham City, but found out early on that the resources needed to create it might actually make the single-player story less compelling. Speaking to the Official PlayStation Magazine in the United Kin...

13 February 2012
10:21 GMT

Warner Bros. Admits Removing File-Share Content Without Owning Copyright

Warner Bros Pictures, the Hollywood movie studio, admitted recently that due to failed filtering mechanisms, they removed materials that did not belong to them from the Hotfile file-hosting service. According to TorrentFreak, the Hollywood movie studio was given access to the systems of the file-host to take down wh...

11 November 2011
15:11 GMT

Lollipop Chainsaw Gets New Batch of Screenshots

Right after serving gamers with an over the top trailer for the upcoming Lollipop Chainsaw, Warner Bros. and Kadokawa Games have delivered a fresh batch of screenshots depicting the new zombie game and the lovely heroine, Juliet Starling, as she braves her way through the legions of zombies that have invaded her own ...

2 November 2011
03:32 GMT

War in the North Trailer Shows Off the Witch-King of Angmar

The developers at Snowblind Studios and publisher Warner Bros. have launched yet another trailer for their upcoming The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, showing off the power of the Witch-King of Angmar, one of the big bad bosses of the title.The Witch-King will not be a central part of the new Lord of the Rings ...

28 October 2011
09:31 GMT

Batman and Saints Row Are Coming to Origin in November

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that its Origin digital distribution platform will begin to offer titles from other companies, like Warner Bros. Interactive, Capcom and THQ, starting with the month of November.Electronic Arts is bragging that the new agreement means that 'top new releases&rdqu...

28 October 2011
09:04 GMT

Ra's al Ghul Arrives in DC Universe Online

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it has launched a new update for its MMO DC Universe Online, one which will see Ra's al Ghul, one of the most cunning enemies Batman has ever battled, return to Earth in order to enact his revenge on the population and on the superheroes that have fought him.Players w...

20 June 2011
10:31 GMT

LEGO Universe Gets New Characters, Weapons, Pets and Missions

The LEGO Group and Warner Bros., the two companies that are in charge of development for the MMO LEGO Universe, have announced that players have managed to complete construction on the Nexus Tower, the biggest player-made building in the video game, and that, as a reward, new content will be delivered to players in t...

25 May 2011
08:23 GMT

Gotham City Imposters Now Official, Multiplayer Oriented and Download Only

Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and developer Monolith Productions have announced that they are working together on the development of a new game called Gotham City Imposters, which will fit into the Batman universe. The game will be delivered on the Xbox Live service for the Xbox 360, the PSN for...

17 May 2011
10:02 GMT

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Attracts 5 Million Viewers

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution and Machinima.com have announced that there were more than five million people watching the Mortal Kombat: Legacy web exclusive series that the two companies launched last week, accompanying the launch of the new video game in the same franchise. The web series will be made up of ...

21 April 2011
15:11 GMT

Anonymous Revives Operation Payback, Targets Record Labels

Anonymous has resumed its DDoS campaign against the recording industry by targeting the record labels represented by RIAA in the LimeWire case.Last fall a judge issued a permanent injunction effectively terminating the development of LimeWire, one of the oldest P2P file sharing applications around.The ruling came as ...

29 March 2011
04:03 GMT

Green Lantern Comes to the 3DS on June 10

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced that it is working with DC Comic to launch its first video game for the new Nintendo 3DS handheld, called Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, set to arrive on June 10. The game will also be released in a 2D version on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360...

25 March 2011
15:41 GMT

New Batman Imposters Game Might Come to Xbox Live Arcade

Publisher Warner Bros. and developer Rocksteady have already talked quite a bit about their upcoming Batman: Arkham City action adventure title but it seems that fans of the comic book detective could get a chance to play him again soon in a game which will only be delivered on the Xbox Live Arcade. XBLAFans has rev...

15 February 2011
17:31 GMT

DC Universe Online Comes on January 11, 2011

Sony Online Entertainment, as both the developer and publisher, has announced that the long-awaited superhero based MMO DC Universe Online is now gold and will be launched on both the PlayStation 3 home gaming console from Sony and on the PC on January 11, 2011.The game will sell for 59.99 dollars on the PS3 and for ...

23 December 2010
05:22 GMT

Mortal Kombat Will Be As Aggressive, More Accessible

Series creator Ed Boon has confirmed that Mortal Kombat 2011 will be shown at the upcoming Pax Prime conference and that the fighting game franchise will be reinvented in the new installment, allowing for fans to enjoy themselves while also attracting players who have so far found it too complicated.Mortal Kombat was...

1 September 2010
18:31 GMT

LEGO Harry Potter Boosts Revenue for Time Warner

Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has announced that the launch of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 – 4 was one of the main revenue drivers for the company for its second fiscal quarter of the year. The company says that the adventures of the well known characters from the book series that has been turned into mo...

5 August 2010
03:55 GMT

Anti-Piracy Tool Patent May Land Warner Bros in Trouble

Back in 2003, German-based company Medien Patent Verwaltung (MPV) previewed and disclosed its anti-piracy tools for Warner Bros, Technicolor and Deluxe at their request. Now, after seven years, the company decided to file a patent-infringement lawsuit against all those companies mentioned above. MPV claims that War...

29 May 2010
06:54 GMT

Warner Bros Officially Announces Super Scribblenauts for Autumn

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has officially announced that 5th Cell Media is developing a new title, called Super Scribblenauts, set to arrive during the fall of this year. The platform of choice for the new title will be the Nintendo DS and Warner says that the new game will take all the innovative feature...

19 May 2010
13:31 GMT

The New Batman Game Won't Venture into Arkham's Asylum

Batman: Arkham Asylum managed to prove that comic-book superheros and their games were anything but dead and that the genre could still produce some genuinely good products. The game scored big time not only with the critics, but with the fans as well, and even won a world record, Guinness awarding it the title of "M...

16 December 2009
03:06 GMT

Clash of the Titans Game Announced

A remake of the Hollywood classic movie Clash of the Titans is in the making and due to arrive next year, but what is of more interest to us is that it will be accompanied by a video game that's part of the franchise. Namco Bandai Games America Inc. and Warner Bros. Interactive, a division of Warner Bros. Home E...

14 October 2009
05:29 GMT

Batman Lands 2.5 Million Copies Sold

One of the most acclaimed games of this year, Batman: Arkham Asylum, proves its worth in hard cash and sales figure. Eidos, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and Rocksteady's third-person action adventure with stealth elements managed to rake up almost 2 million units sold in just 2 weeks after its August ...

22 September 2009
04:32 GMT

Square Enix Might Be Interested in Eidos

Eidos Interactive is quite a popular company these days, not with fans, as they haven't received Tomb Raider: Underworld with wide-open arms, but with other companies, which are interested in buying the British developer and publisher of games.We've already reported on the fact that Electronic Arts and Ubis...

5 December 2008
11:01 GMT

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Delayed to 2009

Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the two parties involved in bringing the Harry Potter universe to videogames, are now announcing that the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game will not be released in 2008, but will rather be launched at the same time with the movie based on the...

9 September 2008
16:41 GMT

Turbine and Warner Bros. Partner for Lords of the Rings Online Expansion

Turbine and Warner Bros. announce that they are partnering up to release The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria for retail in North America. It seems that the announcement is a direct result of Warner Bros. pumping more than 50 million dollars into the development of Turbine earlier this year. The announcement ...

4 August 2008
16:11 GMT

The Dark Knight's Fight Against Online Piracy

Since the core audience of the newly released Batman movie is made up mainly of tech savvy, PC oriented people, it became imperative for Warner Bros to enforce tight security measures so that a pirated copy of the movie would not leak out on the Internet and spoil the official launch. If a pirated copy were to hit th...

28 July 2008
03:26 GMT

Universal Is Going into Videogame Development

Universal is announcing that it is setting up a videogame studio to handle development for some upcoming projects. Universal had a stake in Vivendi Universal, even if that company was not focused on games based on movies, but the merger between Activision and Blizzard means Vivendi Universal is now virtually out of t...

25 July 2008
14:06 GMT

Speed Racer Comes to PlayStation 2 Consoles

If you are one of the many people who enjoyed the movie Speed Racer, or one of the extremely numerous fans of the anime, you will definitely be excited to hear about Warner Bros' decision to release the video game version of the saga, too. However, unlike the two other episodes, Speed Racer: The Videogame will n...

21 July 2008
02:42 GMT

Lego Batman Detailed at E3

Games in the Lego series are always highly anticipated but, unfortunately, they don't always manage to rise up to the expectations (as it happened with the recently released Lego Indiana Jones). Warner Bros is trying to right the wrongs by launching a new exciting game this fall: Lego Batman. And if we are to ju...

18 July 2008
06:14 GMT

Angelina Jolie's Wanted Movie Turns Into a Video Game

Universal Pictures released the movie Wanted on the 27th of June and it is has already earned $192 million in worldwide box office thanks to its triple-A cast (James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie) and overall quality. It seems that we, all the gamers out there, will get an extra treat from the movie gian...

17 July 2008
03:12 GMT

Warner Bros Interactive Names New President

Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive, part of the Warner Bros. Entertainment consortium, stated that it has hired a new president in the person of Martin Tremblay, who has previous experience as president of Vivendi Worldwide Studios and, before that, as head of the Ubisoft Montreal game studio.The main task of the new...

7 May 2008
03:24 GMT

Infogrames Acknowledges Move on SCi

Infogrames keeps on making the headlines, only months after David Gardner, ex-Electronic Arts, and Phil Harisson, ex-Sony, were put in charge of the company. Even as an offer to acquire all outstanding stock of American Atari, Inc. is still pending, the France-based company confirmed that it was behind an offer made ...

30 April 2008
14:26 GMT

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Confirmed, Teaser Trailer Released

On Friday, we have reported rumors regarding a possible release of a Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe game, where the likes of Sub Zero, Scorpion and the others were supposed to fight against Batman, Superman and other DC Comics superheroes. We have analyzed the rumor, found Ed Boon's website that was filled with s...

21 April 2008
03:25 GMT

Key Witness Hired by Pirate Bay's Lawsuit Rival

The Pirate Bay is again brought in the spotlights, but this time to what seems to be one of the most important glitches of the lawsuit versus the copyright holders: Jim Keyzer, the chief police investigator who was responsible for the investigation of the case, was recently hired by Warner Bros, one of the companies ...

18 April 2008
08:41 GMT

CES 2008: Toshiba Runs Low on Friends, Releases HD-DVD-Enabled Notebook

Sure thing, Toshiba has had its share of adrenaline rush these days as its old friend Warner Bros turned its back on the HD-DVD format in favor of the shinier Blu-Ray. As of May 2008, Warner Bros will stop releasing its high-definition titles on HD-DVD media. The Japanese corporation is however hard to kill and knows...

7 January 2008
06:54 GMT

Download Xbox Games and Play Them on Your Xbox 360 Through the Fall Update

It appears that we'll witness an Xbox 360 major system update on December 4, courtesy of Microsoft and it'll bring a couple of hot new features we're sure you'll dig. One of the most important is the possibility of downloading original Xbox games and playing them on your Xbox 360. They'll be...

13 November 2007
09:57 GMT

Glu Mobile Announces Partnership with Warner Bros

Mobile games publisher Glu Mobile announced it has entered a mobile content partnership with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. The agreement gives Glu Mobile the worldwide rights to develop, market and distribute mobile games and content based on new film releases as well as games and content from Warner Bros. Ente...

3 May 2007
08:43 GMT

Happy Feet Goes Mobile

Hong Kong based Artificial Life, Inc. one of the leading providers of award-winning mobile 3G technology and applications, recently announced the signing of a mobile game development agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. The parties agreed to develop ...

24 April 2007
04:49 GMT

300 : The Mobile Game

If you're the kind that goes to the movies rather often, then it's impossible not to have heard of 300, the movie that was based on Frank Miller's graphic novel telling the tale of the 300 brave Spartans that died in a battle against Xerxes and his mighty Persian Army. While the film continues to conqu...

24 March 2007
05:06 GMT


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