It was announced yesterday that Disney has agreed to purchase Lucasfilm for $4 billion in a stock-and-cash deal. The assets that Disney will be getting from this acquisition include Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound studios, but most importantly the Star Wars franchise, both...

When it comes down to it, criminals are generally stupid people. Sometimes you’ll see one steal an iPhone, only to immediately start posting on Facebook about how he “acquired” the device while simultaneously broadcasting exactly where he’s at. In this case, we have software pirates...

Last week we put up a post about the news with The Astronauts, a group of developers who recently left People Can Fly to start their new company. They’ve announced that they’re making use of the Unreal Engine, and their new game will be releasing sometime next year. What they’ve just revealed,...

Three game developers who most recently worked at People Can Fly, the studio responsible for Bulletstorm and the upcoming Gears of War: Judgment title, have left to seek further horizons. The trio, known as The Astronauts, are Adrian Chmielarz, Adrzej Poznanski, and Michal Kosieradzki. Together they have...

If there’s something that Sony’s PSN has over Xbox Live it’s the fact that they use actual dollar amounts in their prices for their games and other media. In Xbox Live, people are forced to buy these arbitrary points in 400 point increments, and often times prices are in odd prices,...

38 Studios, the development company started by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, is about to have its last remnants auctioned off. If you recall, 38 Studios was the company that had made Kingdoms of Amalur earlier this year, but due to some bad investments the company was unable to make payments on its...

A while back there was a lot of information that surfaced about the closing of Radical Entertainment, the developer behind the Prototype series. There were many sad days as fans of the series saw headlines commenting on Activision’s decision to axe the company. After a period of silence Radical has spoken...

Yesterday in a slightly shocking announcement founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk announced their retirements from BioWare. Now, before you start thinking that they were forced out of the BioWare by EA, you should know that that doesn’t appear to be the case. Instead, it seems that the two of them...