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Aliens: Colonial Marines Must Feel Authentic, Developer Says

Aliens: Colonial Marines received a launch date earlier this week and now Gearbox Software, the developer of the game, has revealed a few more details about its strategy concerning the tactical shooter. Aliens: Colonial Marines has been in development for quite some time, as part of a collaboration between Fox, Sega...

23 May 2012
17:41 GMT

Fox, Sony, Warner Bros and Others Possibly Hacked

A hacker called UR0B0R0X claims to have breached the official websites of Fox, Sony, Warner Bros, and 17 others, leaking some sensitive data from their servers. The data leak includes names, email addresses, usernames and password hashes that are allegedly taken from Sony Pictures, RPM Productions, Addisonin Interac...

19 March 2012
05:56 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Benefits from Fox Creative Freedom

The developers at Gearbox who are working on Aliens: Colonial Marines have been given a lot of freedom by 20th Century Fox, the company that holds the rights to the intellectual property based on the well-known series of movies. Brian Martel, who is the chief creative officer at Gearbox, has talked to Gamespot abo...

23 August 2011
17:41 GMT

Hackers Go After Fox, Steal Employee Passwords

A group of hackers has managed to compromise several systems belonging to Fox Broadcasting Company and stole the passwords to its employees' email accounts.The same attackers also took responsibility for recently stealing and leaking the personal information of 250,000 US residents who singed up for X Factor aud...

13 May 2011
13:23 GMT

Personal Details of 250,000 X Factor USA Auditionees Possibly Stolen

Fox has notified around 250,000 US residents who signed up for X Factor auditions that their personal details might have been compromised after a hacker broke into its systems.In an email sent to individuals possibly affected by this security breach, the company noted that exposed information might include their name...

5 May 2011
09:18 GMT

Karaoke Revolution Glee Only Covers Season One of the Show

Konami Digital Entertainment, as the video game publisher, and Twentieth Century Fox, as the holder of the original intellectual property, are announcing the launch of Karaoke Revolution Glee, a title which simulates the most interesting dance and musical numbers seen in the television series.The game includes conten...

10 November 2010
04:17 GMT

Fox Coming Out with New Celebrity Prank Show

Fox network has started work on a new reality show that will be halfway between “Punked” and “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancée.” The show will actually be a contest where people get to bring celebrities home and present them as their fiancés, The Hollywood Reporter says, and it&rsquo...

30 March 2010
09:20 GMT

Fox Working on Werewolf Series ‘Howl’

Vampires are taking over Hollywood: not only are long feature films (“Twilight,” to name just one and the most successful to date) setting the international and domestic box-office on fire, but television shows on the same topic are also seeing a spike in popularity. To join in on the fun and get a share ...

5 December 2009
05:51 GMT

Family Guy Upgrades to Windows 7 RTM

Family Guy is about to explore a case of “polygamy,” as Microsoft and FOX will introduce a marriage to Windows 7, in addition to that of Peter and Louis Griffin on a special edition of the show. The Redmond company, in collaboration with FOX One, has upgraded Family Guy to the latest iteration of the Wind...

14 October 2009
03:27 GMT

Fox Botches Up Twitter TV Experiment

Despite all the enthusiasm, maybe Twitter and TV don't really mix that well. What sounded like a potentially good, or at least innovative, way to use the microblogging platform to add value to a TV show rerun while also harnessing the social nature of the medium turned out to be a miserable failure. Earlier this...

5 September 2009
04:40 GMT

Fox to Feature Tweets During Reruns for Fringe and Glee

For some reason TV and Twitter seem to go together. With several TV shows in the works based on the microblogging site and even some of the well established ones like the Today Show introducing some Twitter elements it looks like TV can't get enough of it. And now Fox is taking it one step further with the intro...

31 August 2009
10:00 GMT

Justin.TV Deploys Better Anti-Piracy Tools

Online video sharing sites have always been plagued by the problem of copyrighted material being uploaded without consent from the owners. It took YouTube years and millions of dollars to get the problem under control and it still hasn't completely eradicated it. Justin.TV, the up-and-coming live video streaming...

13 August 2009
09:48 GMT

Prison Break Game Rises from the Dead

There was talk about a Prison Break videogame some while back but the project apparently never got off the ground to full blown development. But now Kock Media has entered into an agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising regarding a project targeting both the PC and current gen consoles related ...

12 August 2009
05:56 GMT

Latin American Video Site Mundo Fox Shows Promising First Month

While Hulu continues to gather users and content in the US, Fox, one of the three major networks backing the video site, has launched its own video-on-demand site in Latin America, called Mundo Fox. The new site offers content from Fox's Latin American Channels with more than 800 hours of content already availab...

13 July 2009
06:42 GMT

'24' Is the First TV Series to Go Green

Fox company executives will announce today that the popular show “24” will be the first television series to turn completely carbon-neutral. The decision comes after officials at the network analyzed scenes involving car chases and explosions, and deemed that the amount of greenhouse gases they emitted wa...

2 March 2009
05:56 GMT

ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC Bring More HD to iTunes

Apple has issued an official report telling iTunes fans that all four of the major networks today are offering primetime programs in HD on the iTunes Store. Apple also used this opportunity to reveal that people using the iTunes Store on their Mac, iPod or Apple TV have downloaded some 200+ million TV shows to date.F...

16 October 2008
09:33 GMT

CTIA Wireless 2008: Fox Entertainment Launched Its Impressive Mobile Portal

Fox, the giant American TV and film company, announced the launch of Fox Entertainment Mobile Network, a new web portal for mobile phones. The new portal was unveiled during CTIA Wireless 2008 (1 - 3 April, Las Vegas), and it is set to bring one of the widest ranges of TV programs and video content ever made availabl...

3 April 2008
17:06 GMT

Rent Movies Through iTunes

We've all got used to buying music online and, for some time now, buying it without all the DRM crap and using it as we consider fit. One can also buy movies (only those distributed by Walt Disney at the moment) straight from the iTunes store, the favorite shopping place of every Apple fan you and I know.Accordi...

28 December 2007
07:58 GMT

9 Facts About Foxes

In many cultures, a fox is the symbol for a cunning person; in others a vixen is the symbol for the lascivious woman. But what do you really know about this animal?1.During the Ice Age, 400-650,000 years ago, the red fox and polar fox split from a common ancestor, Vulpes alopecoides. 2.Foxes can live solitary, in cou...

22 November 2007
16:29 GMT

The World's Northernmost Inhabited Land

Humans conquered the entire Globe, but to the poles, the climate is too harsh to sustain human populations. So, a question rises: till which latitude can humans live?Well, it appears that the northernmost inhabited land is not Greenland, but the Svalbard archipelago, located north off Norway. Svalbard is made of 5 bi...

30 August 2007
15:06 GMT

Microsoft - Top Parent Company, Google - Top Brand

Market researcher Nielsen//NetRatings released a new report concerning the top 10 parent companies as well as the top 10 brands in July 2007. As we expected, the Internet giants Microsoft, Google and Yahoo fight for the supremacy of the Internet and all of them share the first three positions. But, despite this inter...

16 August 2007
09:46 GMT

Vixens Are Not Faithful

If you're a monogamy adept, do not try to find it in nature, too. Even in cases of classical monogamy, it has been proven that the brides go outside the wedlock. The newest busted myth is that of the foxes. Researchers have considered foxes, wolves and coyotes (the dog like carnivores in the Canidae family) to b...

26 July 2007
06:36 GMT

YouTube Hacker Arrested By The FBI

The FBI managed to catch the famous YouTube pirate who uploaded three episodes of "24" on the online video sharing service even before they were released by Fox. At that time, the Twentieth Century Fox officials sent a subpoena to the parent company Google to require more details about the user who uploaded the clips...

5 June 2007
16:46 GMT

Global Warming and Ice Predators

Can it be that simple: no ice, no polar bears?In the International Polar Year (IPY), Norwegian researchers at the University of Tromso will start four projects investigating how climate change due to global warming affects Arctic's predators, like the the Arctic fox, now an endangered species. "We will collabora...

28 May 2007
07:21 GMT


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