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Despite garnering fairly lukewarm reviews across the board, Alice In Wonderland was hugely lucrative for Disney, so much so that a sequel always seemed inevitable. The original’s $1 billion worldwide take was at least partly down the presence of star name Johnny Depp, and so Disney will be thrilled to …

Konami and Bohemia Interactive have become the latest gaming companies to be targeted by hackers. Just one week after Nintendo confirmed that hackers had managed to break into the Club Nintendo website on more than 23,000 occasions in the previous month, Konami and Bohemia said they’d detected unauthorised website logins …

The new head of Xbox is 20-year Microsoft employee Julie Larson-Green. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced a large-scale reorganization for the software giant in a letter to employees (opens in new tab), including a new Devices and Studios Engineering Group responsible for Xbox. Larson-Green will be accountable for all …

Cinema’s creepiest doll is back in business in the first trailer from Curse Of Chucky , the latest installment in the long-running Child’s Play horror franchise. The sixth film in the series comes after a nine-year hiatus, but Brad Dourif is back on board once more as the voice of …

Sony has submitted a new trademark application for ‘PlayStation TV’, having previously held the trademark for six years until it lapsed last September. As spotted by an IGN reader, the application was made with the United States Patent and Trademark Office last month. While Sony has already released a PlayStation …

Marvel has confirmed that both Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World will be heading to Comic-Con, while making an intriguing reference to Phase 3 of its cinematic output. As well as confirming the aforementioned sequels, the official press notes promise that the Marvel panel will include …

Your PS4 can play games, sure, but don’t you want it to simulate the feel of dozens of miniature robots squirming around within your grip? Well, you’re in luck (also very strange), because Sony announced this week that the PlayRoom augmented reality suite will come included with every console. PlayRoom …

Elysium has released a new trailer, in which Matt Damon sets about trying to save humanity in a dystopian future where the poverty gap between rich and poor is wider than ever. While the deprived underclass are forced to scrape a living on the ruined husk of planet Earth, the …

UPDATE: Zynga confirmed the news in press release. Don Mattrick will take over as CEO, and Mark Pincus will continue as Zynga’s chairman of the board and chief product officer. The head of Xbox is leaving Microsoft, according to a report from tech news site AllThingsD. Interactive Entertainment Business president …

Vin Diesel’s Riddick is back for an eponymous third outing, and a new poster’s been released as a reminder. Featuring Diesel crouched down and ready for action (blade: check; space goggles: check; heavy-duty walking boots: check), the poster sports the slightly bemusing tagline, ‘Survival is his revenge’. We’re guessing that …