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4Kids Grabs Mini Ninjas
3:20AM Mike Fahey | It looks like we’ll be seeing a lot more of Eidos’ Mini Ninjas in the future, as film and television production company 4Kids Entertainment becomes the property’s global licensing agent. More »
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Blizzard Taps Razer For Official StarCraft II Gear
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Blizzard has teamed up with PC peripheral manufacturer Razer to create a line of tournament-grade accessories for next year’s hottest real-time strategy title. More »
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Namco Bandai Locks Down Dragon Ball License For America
6:40AM Michael McWhertor | If you live in the lovely continent of North America, expect all Dragon Ball games you buy (or your parents buy you) in the next five years to have a Namco Bandai label on them. More »
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THQ And Jakks Square Off Over WWE Licence Renewal
12:20AM Mike Fahey | It’s a no holds barred legal struggle between partners Jakks Pacific and THQ over when and if they should renew their licensing agreement with the WWE, set to expire at the end of this year. More »
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EA Gets Ludlum, Starbreeze Does Bourne
12:20AM Mike Fahey | Ludlum Entertainment has struck a deal with Electronic Arts, granting them exclusive worldwide rights to the works of author Robert Ludlum, with a new Jason Bourne game currently in development at Starbreeze Studios. More »
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Big Game Plans For Robert Jordan’s Wheel Of Time
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time Series is one of those fantasy series that I always wanted to read but never gotten around to. Now might be a good time though, as film studio Red Eagle Entertainment readies not only big-screen adaptations of the novels, but video games as well. They’ve just launched Red Eagle Games, a video game publishing company that will oversee the release of video games to coincide with the launch of the movies. Red Eagle producer Rick Selvage explains the company’s plans. “We’ve got a huge running start with this property,” Selvage said. “We expect to have a game based on every movie, and we expect no less than three movies, though that depends on how well each does.” More »
Atari Games Too Bad to be True
11:00AM Owen Good | Watercooler Games saw this earlier in the week and gave a detailed deconstruction of how a Free the Falklands! concept would be graphically impossible on the Atari 2600. I took one look and knew it was satire because one of the writers for this site, Jason Torchinsky, is a comedian and a name I remember as the editorial cartoonist of The Daily Tar Heel back when I was at N.C. State’s Technician in the early 1990s. But play along, because it’s funny. Why look, his site, the Van Gogh-Goghs, have unearthed from some New Mexico landfill documented evidence of 11 scrapped projects for the Atari 2600! The casualties included such licensing/adaptations as Bosom Buddies (a cross between Kaboom! and Donkey Kong, and Kramer vs. Kramer (like Pong with children). My favourite, because I like poop jokes, is Gunther Gebel-Williams’ Cage Cleaner. The bogus rationale for the bogus game sounds like pure pre-video-game-crash self-b.s.ing: “You can’t blow up asteroids in real life, but you sure as [expletive deleted] can clean up [expletive deleted]“. The Best Atari 2600 Games You Never Heard Of [The Van Gogh-Goghs, via Water Cooler Games] More »
Eggebrecht – Licensed or Little IPs Good, Big IPs Bad
5:30AM Mark Wilson | Factor Five’s Julian Eggebrecht, following what’s started as a shaky response to Lair, has reassessed his position on licensing IPs. Addressing a crowd in roundtable discussion, here was his experiential advice. More »
