Traditional media companies looking to 
profit off of the video game industry may need to rethink their methods. A panel of industry executives and analysts at the Digital Hollywood conference noted late Tuesday that the old ways of making money from the industry just don’t work any more.
“Licensing content is dead,” proclaimed Take Two Interactive Software CEO Ben Feder.
Want a sign of how strong the iPad is? The device, 
which releases its 3G version Friday, has caused Microsoft to blink – and cancel its plans for a tablet device of its own.
Gizmodo, which broke the news about Courier – a folding, two screen tablet that seemed to show a lot of promise, now has discovered that the Redmond, WA-based company has decided to halt development on the project.
So far, the only games we’ve heard about 
that will take advantage of Move, Sony’s motion sensor controller, have been internal studios. Now, Disney has joined the team.
Disney Interactive Studios plans to utilize the Move in “Toy Story 3: The Video Game”. It’s part of a broader relationship between the two. The game will also feature content and gameplay that’s only available on the PS3, which some may view as a notice to Nintendo, which has been the home to the vast majority of child-friendly games this console generation.
Foursquare, a location-based application that rewards points and badges to users, is one of the fastest growing iPhone apps on the market. 
Now, another company is taking the framework of that technology and blending in films.
Miso focuses on the films you’re watching on your iPhone/iPod/iPad, awarding avid users who check in and share their favorite shows badges tied to genres and sub-genres of film and television.
Less than two months after the founders of Infinity Ward sued Activision over (among other things) unpaid royalties, over three dozen staffers of the development studio are following in their footsteps. 
38 current and former employees of Infinity Ward have filed suit against the publisher, saying Activision has withheld royalty payments game “in an attempt to keep the employees hostage so that Activision could reap the benefit of the completion of Modern Warfare 3.”
Microsoft is looking to expand the footprint of its Windows 7 Media Center – and that could have folks at Tivo real nervous. 
The company today announced that it was releasing what amounts to an embedded version of Windows 7 to OEM manufacturers for use in systems other than PCs. The Media Center is front and center among the elements Microsoft trumpets in its announcement, noting that it can be used in set-top boxes, connected media devices and consumer TVs.
The debate over whether violent video games are bad for minors is going in front of the Supreme Court. The Court on Monday agreed to review a California law that bans the sale or rental of violent games to children.
It’s a bit of a surprise move by the Court, which many expected would decline to hear California’s appeal of the case after last week’s decision overturning a ban on depictions of animal cruelty for being too broad. (Experts say the wording of both laws in question were similar.)
Netflix isn’t the only movie rental service 
that has agreed to delay giving its customers new releases. Redbox has struck a deal with Twentieth Century Fox and Universal to wait 28 days before offering movies in its machines.
The agreement might cost Redbox some customers, but it will ultimately save it money. The studios have agreed to sell the company DVDs at a lower price. The agreement is pretty much instantaneous and will begin with Universal’s “It’s Complicated,” and Fox’s “Avatar”.
Stories about film studios that have had YouTube rip down videos
featuring copyrighted works are a dime a dozen, but it’s not that often that you see the surfers of the Web unite in protest over it.
Constantin Films is in the middle of a PR disaster for just this reason, though. The German production company has asked the streaming video service to remove the hundreds of parody videos that used the climatic scene from its film “Downfall”.
Chris Morris: Journalist 