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The Humble Bundle is back, this time offering up nine classic Star Wars titles, with the promise of more to be added over the next couple of weeks, all to raise money for charity. Pay what you want games include Knights of the Old Republic and Jedi Knight Academy. Those …

Marvel may have played it cool at the time when the Avengers Age of Ultron trailer leaked on to the internet ahead of its scheduled reveal during an episode of SHIELD. However, an intensive investigation has been taking place behind the scenes, showing that Marvel isn't going to let this one …

PewDiePie, perhaps the world's most well known and certainly the most well subscribed Youtuber and Let's Player, is currently signed to the Disney owned, Maker Studios, in a deal that's likely worth a lot of money to the Swedish born gamer. However his contract with the promotional company is up …

If you didn't think accessing the videos of the world's most subscribed Youtuber Pewdiepie was easy enough before, now you can do so through his official iPhone app, which gives you access to his videos and lets you select your favourites in a pseudo-bro playlist. Developed in conjunction with Maker …

The World of Warcraft movie is due to finish filming in just two weeks time from now but it still won't be coming out for around two years. The film will take 20 months in post-production in order to “get right” according to Legendary Films CEO, Thomas Tull. The reason for …

Following from the recent Star Wars VII cast announcement, Lucas Film has revealed that it is in the process of re-working the older movies in to interactive story books for smartphones and tablets, starting off with The Phantom Menace. The books will be titled Star Wars: Journeys, the first one …

Microsoft Studios Vice President, Phil Spencer, has expressed some interest in making a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Anniversary edition, something I'm sure a lot of fans of the RPG series would like to see happen. Image Credit: RetroGamingAus Things started off when a fan tweeted the Microsoft …

Some fans of the company and of the movie series will no doubt find cause for concern in the report that Pixar may very well be making a Star Wars movie, but from Disney's perspective, taking your still most well respected (mostly) studio and letting it go nuts on your …

What little hope we had left of seeing the Star Wars 1313 project come back to life is now gone as Disney has officially abandoned the trademark,an update on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website has revealed: “No Statement of Use or Extension Request timely filed after Notice …

If your young one wants a tablet, you don't have very many options as not many tablets are designed with kids in mind but film studio, Dreamworks, is looking to change that as it plans to release its own tablet, the ‘Dreamtab', later this year. For this release, Dreamworks will …

Twitter Co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has just taken over from Judith L. Estrin, former Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems, on Disney's board of Directors. Estrin had to move aside as she had already served the maximum 15 years allowed on the board. Disney announced its latest board member at a press …

One of the biggest drawbacks with touch screen input technology, is the fact that you have to look at it to figure out what you're pressing and for the very sensitive ones, it's hard to tell if you've touched something you didn't want to until it's too late. Disney of …

Netflix users in the UK are pretty underprivileged compared to our American cousins (which is why I'd normally recommend you change your DNS settings to gain access to the bigger library) but in terms of Disney movies, not any more: the catalogue of films has now been added to the British …

Disney, the new owners of the Star Wars franchise, has already farmed out the license for video game development to a new company and guess who it is? Everyone's favourite always-on publisher, Electronic Arts! Hurray… right? This license is pretty all encompassing too, giving EA the right to develop games across …

Disney has moved its mouse pointer to “shut down,” and then clicked firmly on Lucasarts, ending the life of the long time great studio that brought us classics like the Monkey Island series, Indiana Jones point and clicks, Maniac Mansion and a lot of Star Wars games – plus my …

In a move that is likely to give Netflix a big leg up against its worldwide competitors, Disney has announced that in the future its new movies will be showcased on Netflix first and its back catalogue will also be made available on the streaming service. Unfortunately for those of …

We've had movie adaptations of video games before: Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Pokemon, Street Fighter, DOA, Mortal Kombat; and they're all pretty horrible. However unless you're a fan of Press Start – and even that's about a video game-like universe – then you probably haven't seen a movie about an …

Playdom are a game maker many of you might not have heard of however they create titles which are played on sites such as Facebook – titles such as Farmville are still incredibly popular. Their net worth is estimated to be between $400 million and $750 million which gives a …