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(opens in new tab) When news broke recently that The CW – the US network mainly aimed at yoof audiences – was planning a small screen version of ultravoilent Japanese film Battle Royale (the one that’s like a very bloody version of The Hunger Games ) many were left wondering …

Left 4 Dead 2 on PC is open to fan modification. Indeed, it’s encouraged by Valve, who not only released the tools to enable gamers to do so, but even pledged to promote one user-created map each week for the foreseeable future. One such mod is ‘Cold Stream’ – a …

The NPD Group (opens in new tab), as reported by MCV Pacific (opens in new tab), has unveiled the ten best selling games of 2012, where only three of which were actually released in that year. The remaining seven were all games of 2011, leaving only Max Payne 3, Mass …

Indie Bundles are all the rage these days – or rather “were” all the rage in 2011 – and it was only a matter of time before 2011’s independent developer craze shook hands with 2012’s big fad, Kickstarter. The mastermind of the project, Evgeniy Kolpakov, is asking for $45,000 to …

There’s been a lot of talk surrounding Nintendo these days suggesting that they should give up their handheld system efforts and flee with their valuable IP to the App Store to make a quick killing. However, according to Nintendo’squarterly earnings (opens in new tab)release, it sounds like they’re doing quite …

Like action? Aliens? Great big mushroom-cloud explosions? Then get yourself over to Blockbuster today, where you can rent Battleship before it’s released anywhere else. And while you’re there, you can trade in any old or unwanted DVDs, Blu-rays and games for cold hard cash, or Blockbuster account credit, with the …

The Bourne Legacy has released a new featurette in which cast and crew help explain how the new film fits into the universe established by the original trilogy. As director Tony Gilroy explains, the ambition informing the project was to create a larger conspiracy than the one seen in the …

The Possession , the forthcoming horror film produced by Sam Raimi, has released a spooky new motion poster featuring Natasha Calis as a young girl undergoing some rather demonic changes. The films sees Em (Calis) have her life turned upside down when she buys a mysterious antique box at a …

The woes keep coming for Blizzard as it has beenrevealed (opens in new tab)that a fairly simple exploit allows players complete invulnerability by entering a series of commands with the Wizard. The bug was spotted and reported on Blizzard’s Diablo 3 forums (opens in new tab) and the fanbase quickly …

(opens in new tab) Fringe co-creators and Transformers , Star Trek and Mission Impossible 3 writersAlex Kurtzman %26 Roberto Orci are developing a new TV show based on The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow . According to Deadline , Len Wiseman ( Underworld , Total Recall remake) is set to direct …