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Warner Bros. Interested in More Videogame Development

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. announced yesterday that it had set up a new entity called DC Entertainment, with the stated aim of better using DC Comics intellectual property in videogames, in movies and other media. The parent company stated that “prioritize DC properties as key titles and growth drivers acr...

11 September 2009
03:05 GMT

Green Lantern Videogame Arrives Alongside Movie

It seems that the movie tie-in genre of videogames is alive and well, as various reports are saying that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has decided that it will create and publish a videogame based on the Green Lantern property, to be released to fans alongside the movie.The two products are set to be outed s...

14 July 2009
05:01 GMT

Movie Creator Sues Midway Over Sale

Lawrence Kasanoff, who is the owner of Threshold Entertainment, initiated a lawsuit against publisher Midway, which was gone through a bankruptcy process and is not set to be sold to Warner Bros. for the sum of 33 million dollars. Kasanoff is claiming that he is the one who built the Mortal Kombat brand to its curren...

29 June 2009
16:21 GMT

E3: LEGO Harry Potter Lives Through Years 1 – 4

Warner Bros., a company that is becoming more and more interested in the videogaming industry, and LEGO Group, have officially announced that they would be collaborating on creating a game called LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 – 4.The title, as the name implies, will deliver content taken from the first four books ...

2 June 2009
14:21 GMT

Warner Bros. Has Long Term Plans for Lord of the Rings

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced the first game that it would create using the Lord of the Rings franchise, recently picked up from Electronic Arts. Now, the company is saying that there is a long term plan for the intellectual property, which is focused on creating videogames suited for a wide ar...

1 June 2009
04:43 GMT

Warner Bros. Eager to Acquire Midway

Warner Bros. has made a bid of no less than 33 million dollars for the acquisition of Midway Games, which has recently declared bankruptcy. Initially, the company, which was sold to an investor for just 100,000 dollars, stated that it expected to be acquired by a suitor willing to pay at least 30 million dollars for ...

25 May 2009
03:47 GMT

Take on Aragorn's Quest in New Lord of the Rings Videogame

Warner Bros. has just announced that it intends to publish a videogame based on the Lord of the Rings franchise, the first since the license was transferred from Electronic Arts.The game will be called Aragorn's Quest and is set to be demoed at the E3 trade show, which is fast coming up. Warner Bros. is saying t...

21 May 2009
14:41 GMT

‘It’ Remake Will Be R-Rated, Gory, Terrifying

Pennywise, one of the most terrifying clowns to have ever graced the screen, as inspired by the character with the same name in Stephen King’s novel “It,” will be coming back to slay innocent children again, thanks to Warner Bros. Moreover, writer Dave Kajganich assures fans via DreadCentral, Pennyw...

7 April 2009
11:13 GMT

No More Lord of the Rings from Electronic Arts

It seems that the rights to use the content from the Lord of the Rings movies in videogames is no longer with Electronic Arts. Warner Bros., which has created the movies, has now taken back the intellectual property and is probably looking for a way to create some videogames based on them. The news came by way of a r...

16 March 2009
05:26 GMT

Warner Bros. Working on Stephen King’s ‘It’ Remake

When Hollywood lacks inspiration for a good new movie, it turns to the classics, it has often been said. This proves to be the case once more as Warner Bros. is now working on a remake of one of the most known horror TV series, based on a horror book by Stephen King, “It,” featuring Pennywise the killer c...

13 March 2009
14:24 GMT

Warner Bros. Working on ‘The NeverEnding Story’ Remake

Critics often say that, when Hollywood is running out of fresh ideas, it turns to classics either for inspiration or for the material needed to make a film. However, remaking an oldie does have its advantages, it is argued, with one of the most important being that it introduces an old film to younger audiences. Spea...

27 February 2009
06:04 GMT

F.E.A.R. 2 Demo Arrives on January 22

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, as the publisher, and Monolith Games, as the developers, are announcing that a demo version of their upcoming first person shooter F.E.A.R. 2 will be released on January 22 on all the platforms on which the game will be launched, meaning the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the ...

19 January 2009
14:12 GMT

F.E.A.R. Lost a Lot of Fans Because of Expansions

F.E.A.R. 2 is set to arrive in early 2009, on February 13, and the developers at Monolith Studios say that the game needs to bring back all those fans who have been driven away from the franchise by the expansions and ports that other companies handled in the past.The original F.E.A.R. was developed by Monolith but d...

30 December 2008
12:31 GMT

Terminator Salvation Game Is in Development

Warner Bros. announces that it plans to release Terminator Salvation – The Videogame, a title which will accompany the upcoming Terminator movie set to arrive in 2009.The game, based on the Terminator Salvation movie and starring Christian Bale, is in production at the moment. The player will be able to take on...

21 November 2008
04:56 GMT

SCi Partners with Warner Bros.

Yesterday, we brought to you the news that SCi Entertainment was facing a possible hostile takeover, with an NBC offer of 100 million dollars and with Warner Bros. being interested in acquiring the company, too. The SCi board has released a statement saying that the company is not for sale at any price, but it seems ...

25 April 2008
13:11 GMT

Pirate Bay Policeman "Not Hired During the Investigation"

The short story so far: Warner Bros. and The Pirate Bay are the plaintiff and the defendant of a copyright lawsuit in which the BitTorrent website is accused of providing access to pirated material. Nothing new until now because we've seen lots of similar cases when BitTorrent websites were sued for infringing c...

24 April 2008
02:30 GMT

"Star Wars" Makes a Comeback on the Big Screen

Hands up, those "Star Wars" fanatics among you. OK, maybe "fanatic" is a strong word - let's put a friendly spin on it and go with "enthusiastic". OK, so - "Star Wars" enthusiasts, please stand up. There's good news coming in from that galaxy far far away, and to tell the truth, I'm quite excited about...

12 February 2008
10:24 GMT

Warner Bros to Exclusively Adopt the Blu-Ray Format

The HD DVD vs. Blu-ray war has taken another turn as Warner Bros Entertainment announced that they will exclusively release their high-definition DVD titles in Blu-ray format. The company officials claim that they have picked the Blu-Ray format as a strategic decision heavily influenced by the consumers themselves."T...

5 January 2008
07:03 GMT

Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt Tools (GameCube)

Based on the multiple Emmy Award-winning animated series from Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment, and featuring the actual voice actors from the series, Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt is a third-person action adventure game, which brings the colourful and hysterical world of the Animaniacs wonderfully ...

16 November 2007
03:06 GMT

Want to Pay Just $3 For an Original, Legal DVD? Go to China!

Although China is the place where a large number of the world's consumer electronics (not to mention other products as well) are manufactured, the problem of movie piracy is an extremely important issue there, as cheap, illegal copies of original movies are available just about everywhere, at some pretty low pri...

8 November 2007
13:31 GMT

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group Acquires TT Games

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has revealed today their agreement to acquire TT Games (Traveller's Tales, independent game developers) and TT Games Publishing, the UK-based game publisher responsible for the LEGO Star Wars series, BIONICLE Heroes and other popular games."TT Games is very successful and re...

8 November 2007
08:27 GMT

Teen Titans Unlockables (PS2)

Teen Titans incorporates a variety of exciting missions and addictive game play to deliver an experience that captures the non-stop action of the highly popular series from Warner Bros. Animation. Teen Titans fuses hip anime-style visuals with awesome stunts, cool, cutting edge gadgetry and real "teen world" humor. ...

2 October 2007
06:48 GMT

Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt - Unlockables

Frustrated by being "overlooked", film director C. C. Deville steals the "Edgars" (statuettes that are a parody of the Oscars); he threatens to melt them all unless studio chairman Thaddeus Plotz gives him a lucrative contract. While carrying out his plot, Deville accidentally crashes his getaway blimp into the Warne...

29 March 2007
04:26 GMT


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