HBO’s hot new anthology drama True Detective opened solid in the ratings Sunday night, while comedy Girls returned to a series-high audience. Despite facing the Golden Globe Awards, HBO’s freshman drama debut had 2.3 million viewers — the biggest HBO series opening since Boardwalk Empire in 2010, and just barely edging out the series premiere of […]
Michael Douglas has found a high-profile new gig as scientist Hank Pym in Marvel’s “Ant-Man.” Edgar Wright is directing the movie from a script he wrote with Joe Cornish. “With Hank Pym’s rich history in the Marvel Universe, we knew we needed an actor capable of bringing the weight and stature to the role that […]
CBS’ The Big Bang Theory will thrust its fandom into hyperspace when not one but two Star Wars vets appear on television’s highest rated and most watched comedy, TVLine reports. Big Bang executive producers Bill Prady and Steve Molaro said on the Golden Globes red carpet that both James Earl Jones (aka the voice of […]
Google announced today that it has entered into an agreement to buy Nest Labs, Inc. for $3.2 billion in cash. Nest’s mission is to reinvent unloved but important devices in the home such as thermostats and smoke alarms. Since its launch in 2011, the Nest Learning Thermostat has been a consistent best seller–and the recently launched […]
HBO is ending Aaron Sorkin’s acclaimed drama series The Newsroom after the upcoming third season, the cable channel announced Monday, an announcement which generated a lot of disappointment here at our office. “The Newsroom is classic Aaron Sorkin – smart, riveting and thought-provoking,” said HBO programming president Michael Lombardo. “I’m sure this farewell season will be one to […]
Just as China finally lifts its ban on foreign video game consoles, one of its biggest electronics OEMs has announced a new Ouya competitor. Huawei calls their version of an Android gaming console the Tron and hopes to sell it for less than $120. The console itself is about the size of a soda can, […]
Despite the rise in digital distribution and services like Sony’s PlayStation Now streaming technology or the Xbox One’s ability to offload tasks to the cloud, hardware-based consoles aren’t going away anytime soon, according to Microsoft. Asked on Twitter if he thinks the Xbox One will be the last console to run on local hardware, Xbox […]
The Pizza Hut app on Xbox 360, which made its debut back in April and allows you to order food from the delivery chain directly through your console, has earned Pizza Hut quite a bit of dough – over $1 million in four months. That’s around 166,667 P’Zones or 200,000 orders of breadsticks. The last […]
Quantic Dream has announced that one million copies of Beyond: Two Souls were sold before the end of last year. In a post on its official site, the developer confirmed that Beyond passed the milestone “shortly before Christmas 2013,” adding, “A MILLION THANKS!” The page also includes a word cloud displaying phrases commonly found in […]
Publisher Devolver Digital announced today that Roll7’s side-scrolling, skateboard-flipping stunt sim OlliOlli is headed to the PlayStation Vita by the end of the month. Combining Super Meat Boy-like precision platforming with a complex stunt system, OlliOlli challenges players to survive a series of challenging level layouts while chaining together tricks and basically looking as rad […]
Copyright © 2008 - 2024 · StreetCorner Media , LLC· All Rights Reserved ·