Category Archives: Variety – Technotainment
January 31, 2012 Gamemaker THQ gets delisting notice from Nasdaq
Video game publisher THQ, which has worked closely with several Hollywood studios throughout the years, is facing a delisting on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The company, which has partnered with many Hollywood studios, including Dreamworks and Disney in recent years, has filed an 8K form with the Securities and Exchange Commission, announcing it has received [...]
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January 30, 2012 ‘Indie Game – The Movie’ to highlight Game Developer’s Conference
Typically, the entertainment highlight of the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is the Game Developer’s Choice Awards – one of the video game industry’s more prestigious award ceremonies. Those will still be handed out this year, but attendees are likely to be more excited about the announcement that Indie Game – The Movie will be [...]
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January 27, 2012 Google Music adds key backup feature
Google Music hasn’t been making a lot of noise lately and is, in some ways, in danger of being overshadowed by other cloud music sites. But the Internet giant has roared back with the addition of a key backup feature for users. Starting immediately, Google Music users are able to instantly restore their music collection [...]
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January 26, 2012 Nintendo braces for first corporate loss, Wii-U confirmed for this year
Nintendo’s financial year won’t end until the end of March, but the company is bracing investors for its first-ever financial loss – and it’s going to be a massive one. By the time the year ends, the company expects to post an $837 million loss – a much worse number than the $258 million shortfall [...]
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January 25, 2012 Mixed news on Netflix earnings
While Netflix saw its net income take a hit in the fourth quarter, the news wasn’t all-bad. The company beat estimates and more importantly saw its streaming business grow, despite a series of events in 2011 that were one PR disaster after the next. Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog
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January 19, 2012 Apple’s play for the schoolyard
Apple’s latest announcement may have nothing to do with the entertainment industry, but it’s a clear signal that this tech giant is interested in branching out far beyond its current fields of interest. At a press conference today in New York, the company rolled out a new version of iBooks that is squarely targeted at [...]
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January 18, 2012 Changes coming to LED TVs?
While LED TVs provide a brighter (and arguably better) picture than their LCD counterparts, consumers aren’t embracing them at a pace the industry or analysts have been expecting. That’s likely to result in some changes to the sets – and they don’t sound especially encouraging. NPD reports set makers are reducing the number of LEDs [...]
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January 17, 2012 Max Payne 3 delayed – again. Take-Two earnings to suffer
The oft-delayed Max Payne 3 has hit another roadblock and been pushed back again – and the delay is going to push publisher Take-Two Interactive Software into the red. The company’s Rockstar Games division announced this morning that the game, originally set to launch this March, would now not bow before May. That marks the [...]
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January 9, 2012 4K sets officially arrive
We’re likely to hear a lot about 4K before the end of today – press conference day at CES – but the first couple of sets have already made their debuts. LG has announced a trio of 4K sets, measuring 60, 72 and 84 – yes, 84 – inches). Each boasts a staggering resolution of [...]
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