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Disney Teams Up with EA on Star Wars Video Games
A month after shutting down game production at Lucasfilm subsidiary LucasArts, The Walt Disney Co. said Monday that it had entered multi-year deal with Electronic Arts Inc. to develop new “Star Wars” video games.
It’s the End for LucasArts (1982-2013), Though What Have We Lost, Really?
For some reason it’s not just news but front page headline news that Disney just shuttered LucasArts, a video game developer and publisher that used to make terrific video games.
To Infinity and…Skylanders? Disney’s Bold New Toy-Game Maneuver
“Disney Infinity” is an intrepid, ostensibly industry-upending venture by Walt Disney Co. to merge games and toys by capitalizing on the studio’s vast roster of beloved storybook characters.
Disney Is ‘Face Cloning’ People to Create Terrifyingly Realistic Robots
The Hall of Presidents is about to get a whole lot creepier, at least if Disney’s researchers get their way. That’s because they’re “face cloning” people at a lab in Zurich in order to create the most realistic animatronic …
Why Disney Is Fighting with Redbox and Netflix Over a Movie No One Wanted to See
“John Carter” was one of the biggest film flops of all time. The special-effects-heavy sci-fi epic set on Mars turned out to be an epic box office failure in the U.S. for Disney, leading to a shakeup of company executives. Even as audiences largely ignored the film, “John Carter” finds itself at the center of a battle between …
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All Hail Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, King of E3 2012
What’s the biggest story at this year’s E3 games confab in Los Angeles? Most people would pick Nintendo’s Wii U console, I assume, though Microsoft’s aggressive reinvention of the Xbox 360 as an all-purpose computing device is an …
When I Think About My Computer, I Touch Myself
No, eww, I don’t mean in the Divinyls sense — I’m talking about touching real-world objects like chairs or doorknobs, or even parts of your own body, say your ears, to signal your computer or other computing devices. A team at …
ABC’s ‘Nightline’ Goes Inside Facilities of Apple Supplier Foxconn
It looks like media pressure has prompted Apple supplier Foxconn to do something unprecedented — open up its factories to ABC’s Nightline. The program will air tomorrow, Tuesday, February 21, at 11:35pm EST.
As Forbes points …
Mass Media + Cloud Storage = All the Same Mistakes?
What if Hollywood tried to create its own content cloud, but the Internet didn’t want to use it? That’s the problem emerging with news that Netflix has dropped out of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, a move that could …
Disney Strikes a Video Deal with YouTube
Can’t beat ‘em? Join them. Disney and YouTube have reportedly struck a deal that helps both companies gain better traction in the online market.
The two companies have agreed to spend a combined $10-15 million producing an original video series that will be distributed on a co-branded channel on Disney and YouTube. Disney, who will be …
Disney-ABC Expands Streaming Deals with Amazon, Netflix
Now you’ll never have to miss an episode of Grey’s Anatomy, wherever you are and whatever device you’re using, as Disney and ABC not only extended their existing deal with Netflix, but also expanded their agreement with Amazon, meaning that Kindle Fire users have even more shows to stream on their new devices.
The expansion of the …
