Archive for: January, 2011

LivingSocial Family Edition Rolls Out to 23 New Markets

LivingSocial  today announced the launch of 23 new Family Edition markets in the U.S. and Canada, including: Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Charlotte, NC; Chattanooga, TN; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Greenville, NC; Houston, TX; Indianapolis, IN; Los Angeles, CA; Louisville, KY; Milwaukee, WI; Mississauga, ON; Philadelphia, PA; Phoenix, AZ; Sacramento, CA; San Diego, CA; […]

Top Gear’s Tanner Foust to Host and Coach Ford Focus Global Test Drivers

Ford confirmed today that bloggers and consumers attending the Ford Focus Global Test Drive next month in Madrid will be greeted, hosted and coached by Tanner Foust, one of the hosts on the American edition of Top Gear. Foust brings a wealth of experience to the Global Test Drive program, with stunt driving, rally competition, three X […]

Spike TV Picks Up Bar Rescue and Repo Games

Spike TV has ordered two new, distinctive unscripted series, “Bar Rescue” and “Repo Games,” per anounencement made today by Sharon Levy, Spike TV’s executive vice president, original series and animation. The network will pick up 20 half-hour episodes of “Repo Games” from the producers of MTV’s hit series, “Jersey Shore,” and 10 one-hour episodes of […]

82 Third-Party Publishers Plan to Dev for Sony NGP

The Next Generation Portable (NGP), Sony’s PSP successor, was announced in Tokyo along with a small group of games that were confirmed as being under development for the new machine. While games such as Naughty Dog’s Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid 4 from Konami, and Call of Duty from Activision were some of the highlights, it […]

Treyarch Announces Black Ops Double-XP Weekend

The First Strike map pack for Black Ops launches tomorrow on the Xbox 360 for 1,200 Microsoft Points. The release of the paid DLC will be followed by a Black Ops double-XP weekend. Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb made the double-XP weekend announcement via a podcast on his blog, and Treyarch […]

AFC-NFC Pro Bowl Is Highest-Rated in 10 years

The AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, in which the NFC triumphed 55-41, won Fox the night with a 4.4 rating in the 18-49 demo with 12 million viewers, according to preliminary numbers from Nielsen.

QuakeCon 2011 Dates Announced

QuakeCon is one hell of game festival and party. This year it will take place August 4 – 7, 2011 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas QuakeCon will once again host North America’s largest BYOC (Bring-Your-Own-Computer) LAN party, with thousands of gamers hooking their systems up to play on a world-class network. QuakeCon […]

Oscar-Winning Composer John Barry Dead at 77

Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, including “You Only Live Twice” and “Goldfinger” and developed the twanging guitar riff in the suave spy’s theme music, has died. He was 77. Barry died in New York on Sunday, his family said. The family did not release the cause […]

The Rite Wins Weekend Box Office Race

“The Rite” cast out tickets along with demons to reach the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend, industry figures showed Monday. The Anthony Hopkins horror flick inspired by 1970s classic “The Exorcist” captured $14.8 million in just over 3,000 theaters, despite poor reviews by critics. 1 The Rite $15.01M 2 […]

Samsung to Add Lovefilm App Blu-ray Players in the UK

Samsung has announced it will be adding the video rental service Lovefilm to its Blu-ray players, and Blu-ray home cinema systems in the UK. Lovefilm can already be accessed on Samsung TVs with the Internet@TV function on board, and the move puts the Korean company on equal footing with Sony – who has Lovefilm present […]

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