Lightning McQueen and the rest of the anthropomorphic autos from this summer’s “Cars 3” movie from Disney-Pixar will be revving their engines in a new console-based video game. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will develop and publish the “Cars 3” video game, slated to be released sometime in 2017, under a pact with Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media. The game will …
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Blame it on the moonlight if you will, but any folly stays resolutely earthbound in “Fool Moon,” a plainly sincere but tooth-achingly precious directorial debut for actor-poet-filmmaker Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet. Often a grave, sympathetic presence on camera — well-used by such auteurs as André Téchiné, Bertrand Tavernier and Christophe Honoré — the likeable 28-year-old here comes unstuck under his own gaze; …
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Pan-European pay TV service Sky and ITV have joined forces with Ginx TV to launch Ginx eSports TV, the U.K. and Ireland’s only 24-hour TV channel devoted to eSports, in which videogaming is elevated into a spectator sport. ITV and Sky are expected to take minority stakes in the business to help it grow. The channel, formerly known as Ginx …
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SAG-AFTRA and the major video game companies both said Friday that they are open to resuming talks, eight months after negotiations cratered and the performers union went on strike. Neither side committed to the next step of returning to the bargaining table, however. “We’ve received the game companies’ press release extending a welcome back to the bargaining table,” SAG-AFTRA said …
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YouTube is returning to E3 this year, expanding its live-streaming coverage of the game expo to two days — and broadcasting for the first time in 4K Ultra HD — under a multiyear deal with producer Geoff Keighley. “YouTube Live at E3” will stream live worldwide on Sunday, June 11, and Monday, June 12, at youtube.com/e3. That’s ahead of the …
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Major eSports producer ESL has inked a partnership with David Hill — the former longtime Fox TV exec who launched Fox Sports in the U.S. — to give its video-game competitions television-style production values. Hill will work exclusively with ESL on special projects with select game publishers and sponsors to develop premium eSports events through Hilly, the production shingle he …
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Get ready for a zombie-exterminating version of “Pokémon Go.” “The Walking Dead: Our World,” from AMC Networks and Next Games, is a location-based augmented-reality mobile game that will show you hordes of the undead right in front of you on your smartphone — wherever you happen to be — which you’ll have to fight off with guns, swords, grenades and other …
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Activision Blizzard is officially announcing the sale of the first seven Overwatch League city-based team franchises, with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and New York Mets COO Jeff Wilpon among those buying into the new esports league. Activision Blizzard had been seeking a $20 million franchise fee from Overwatch League team owners, with no revenue sharing until after 2021, …
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Microsoft has finally announced the rumored next iteration of the Xbox One with Project Scorpio. At its E3 conference on Monday, Microsoft unveiled an enhanced version of the Xbox One, code-named Scorpio, for release in holiday season 2017. This announcement comes directly on the heels of the Xbox One S, a system that is 40% smaller than the behemoth that is the …
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Pete Vlastelica is exiting as Fox Sports’ executive VP of digital to become president and CEO of Major League Gaming, the eSports division of video-game giant Activision Blizzard. Vlastelica, who officially starts at Activision Blizzard on Oct. 3, will be tasked with growing the company’s eSports broadcast, content and distribution business that revolves around video-game competitions as a spectator sport. …
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