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  • It’s now Sony’s 3D world

    It’s now Sony’s 3D world

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony’s future isn’t motion control, but yet the other current home entertainment gimmick, 3D. Oh sure, Sony is fully embracing motion control as well with the Move and it works great, but let’s not call these two flavor of the weeks anything more than they are. They’re not revolutionary, groundbreaking, or really innovative. Both are [...]

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  • Photo report: CrunchGear digs up Akihabara’s top 10 expensive classic games

    Photo report: CrunchGear digs up Akihabara’s top 10 expensive classic games

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Nearly two years have passed since I last went to Akihabara in Tokyo to dig up Japan's most expensive retro games. This time, I made the observation that the general price level has gone down in the past months. Some of the pricey carts and CDs I listed up were simply nowhere to be found, some were considerably cheaper for some reason, and other games became more expensive over time.

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  • The latest movie franchise to be rebooted? Mortal Kombat. Yikes.

    The latest movie franchise to be rebooted? Mortal Kombat. Yikes.

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Does the world need another Mortal Kombat movie? No, probably not, but that won't stop Hollywood from attempting to exploit a license that was last hot in 1994. Word on the street is that Warner Bros. wants to, yes, “reboot” the series. (Note: You cannot reboot a dead computer, so I don't know if it's possible to reboot a dead movie franchise.) To that end it has hired Oren Uziel to write the script. You've probably never heard of Uziel, but he wrote Shimmer Lake. You've probably never heard of that, either.

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  • Scorpion actor confirms third Mortal Kombat movie in the works

    Scorpion actor confirms third Mortal Kombat movie in the works

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Well this is a sentence I've been wanting to write for some time now. There will be a third Mortal Kombat movie. So confirmed the actor who played Scorpion in both Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon.

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  • Midway’s assets sold to Warner Bros. for $33 million

    Midway’s assets sold to Warner Bros. for $33 million

    Posted on July 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Troubled Midway has found itself a buyer in Warner Bros. and the movie studio also picked up an additional two dev studios in Chicago and Seattle. A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved the $33 million sale today that includes the rights to Mortal Kombat, Joust, and Spy Hunter.

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