Disruption is an enticing and 
popular buzzword these days.
Every year, hundreds of start-ups venture forth, hoping their Quixotic efforts to change how an industry operates will bear fruit. Most fail, often because they’re either ignorant to several realities or choose to simply ignore them.
The truth is: Bringing about disruption is incredibly hard. And it takes an especially driven type of entrepreneur, a lot of money and even more luck and the ability to clear some pretty big hurdles.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 
is expanding its digital rollout, today announcing an agreement to buy the popular Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes websites.
The deal, which encompasses both sites, is part of Warner’s ongoing studio-agnostic initiative to grow digital content ownership. Both sites will continue to operate independently.
While royalty rates may be the first thing you think of in the face-off between Hollywood’s major content creators and outlets such as Netflix and YouTube, there’s a much bigger battle brewing under the surface.
Online video, historically, has not been something that compares well with film or television. Production budgets, if they exist at all, are lower — and due to differences in the ad model, there hasn’t been a lot of incentive to create programming that’s on par with what the studios and networks regularly release.
That’s changing, though, with both Netflix and YouTube taking tentative steps into the original content business. And while both are just beginning to explore the field, the moves already have network and studio brass on high alert.
L.A. Noire may be a video game, but it 
sure does have its toes in a lot of ponds.
One week after being showcased at the Tribeca Film Festival, the game is exploring the literary world, gathering a collection of noted crime novelists to contribute short stories set in the game’s universe for an eBook that will come out next month.
Fallout fans jonesing for more time
in the wasteland are about to get their wish.
Bethesda Softworks has announced plans to roll out three new add-on packs forĀ Fallout: New VegasĀ this summer. Each will come out simultaneously for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
For all the talk of film and video game synergy, you 
don’t see a lot of real world applications. Now, Sony’s putting its money where its mouth is.
The company will include a demo for the upcoming “Resistance 3” in the Blu-ray release of “Battle: Los Angeles”. The game is expected to hit store shelves in September.
As the repercussions and scope of recent cyberattacks
continue to grow,Ā Sony’sĀ problems are mounting.
Not only does the company have to rebuild its network infrastructure and continue to inventory what data was taken, but the revelation that another 25 million accounts were hacked will further tarnish Sony’s image ā something that could impact long-term sales.
The data breach into the PlayStation 
Network continues to worsen.
Sony announced Monday it had discovered another 24.6 million accounts had been hacked, this time in the company’s PC online gaming division. The intrusion is on top of the 77 million accounts that Sony has previously acknowledged were breached.
Google TV hasn’t exactly taken the 
world by storm, but the search giant isn’t giving up on it.
Google is expected to showcase a second generation of the device next month at its I/O developer conference. Whether the company has mended any fences with the networks, however, is less clear.
Conduit 2Ā is hardly perfect, 
but it’s much better than most shooters on the Wii. The action is fairly well paced and the boss battles are fun. More importantly, though, the game never takes itself too seriously, injecting humor into the action — such as an enemy who shouts, after you’ve been shooting him for quite a while, “That’s it! I’m through negotiating!” The story, though, is pretty thin and some moments will have you wondering what the heck is going on. The multiplayer mode is a welcome addition, given the natural fit between online play and shooters. For parents, this is an example of the Wii’s limited online capabilities working in their favor, as they can easily monitor who children are playing with.
Chris Morris: Journalist 