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07.17.11

Capcom will be in attendance at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 with a full line-up of activities and special surprises. Capcom will once again be located at booth #4844, which is sure to be a can’t miss hub of activity for fans. There will be  playable demos of the upcoming 2011/2012 line-up of games, daily tournaments, signing sessions, and special deals at the Capcom store.

07.14.11

Nintendo needed a hit for its Nintendo 3DS and it got one. After just 11 Days on store shelves, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has sold over 283,000 copies in the U.S. alone. The game finished June as the No. 2 best-selling video game on an individual platform, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States.

07.13.11

This years Comic Con San Diego is packed with dozens of hot shows, some returning and other making their debut appearance. They're coming with cast, crew, sneak peaks, and an Q&A session for fans to get their burning questions answered. Take a break from the demos at gaming booths, and stop by one of the telvision panels! With the final list online, here are just some of the shows (in no particular order) we can't wait to see at Comic Con.

07.12.11

Harry Potter fans have more than just the final (and first) 3D Harry Potter film to savor. The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have released the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  –   Part 2 videogame across all platforms. The explosive finale features all of the iconic moments and locations from the conclusion of Harry Potter’s journey, and enable fans to step into Harry’s shoes as he faces off against Voldemort and his dark forces for the final time. The Phelps twins talk about saying goodbye to the films and the video games in this exclusive video interview below.

07.11.11

With big movies like Breaking Dawn, The Amazing Spider-Man and Conan scheduled to bring Hollywood stars to the annual convention, fanboys and girls won’t have to seek refuge in another city next year for Comic-Con 2012. The Con is staying in San Diego through 2015. “Firefly’s” Nathan Fillion, who’s promoting “Castle” at Comic-Con 2011, talks about TRON and video games in this exclusive interview from last year’s convention.

07.08.11

Despite a recent string of down months in U.S. video game sales at retail this year, a new report from research firm Gartner paints a very rosy picture for the global video game industry. When adding in revenues from burgeoning online, mobile and digital gaming sectors, Gartner estimates that worldwide spending on the gaming ecosystem will exceed $74 billion in 2011, up 10.4 percent from the $67 billion spent last year. By 2015, spending is expected to reach $112 billion.

07.03.11

It looks like there will be more Green Lantern video games heading to consoles and portables. Warner Bros. Pictures has greenlit a sequel to Ryan Reynold’s big screen adaptation of the DC Comics superhero. Despite making just $102 million domestically at the box office – and another $35 million internationally, Warner Bros. will give the lesser-known superhero another run on the big screen.

07.03.11

Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow remains a huge box office draw overseas. Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films' Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has sailed past the $1 billion global box office mark and is still bringing in the treasure. The 3D movie has grossed $233.7 million domestically and $774 million internationally for a global pirate’s booty of $1,007,703,000. While Disney Interactive Studios canceled its Pirates of the Caribbean role-playing game video game tie-in to the new movie, the game publisher did release LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean to take advantage of the global sensation.

07.03.11

The third Transformers film showed no ill effects from the horribly reviewed second movie in the franchise. Transformers: Dark of the Moon has broken all sorts of records in its first six days. The 3D movie became the number one single-day opening of 2011 right out of the gate with over $37 million. It also broke an IMAX 3D record for its haul $22 million. Then it earned $97.4 million on 9,300 screens at 4,013 locations domestically through Sunday, topping Spider-Man 2’s record haul.

06.30.11

According to Gamer Segmentation 2011: The New Faces of Gamers, the latest report from market research company The NPD Group, Core Gamers, once considered to be the leading gaming segment within the video game industry, is facing rising competition from Digital Gamers for amount of time spent gaming and number of games acquired.

06.28.11

Back in the day, long before the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii, teens spent their hard-earned money at on arcade games at pizza parlors, miniature golf courses and malls. It’s now been 40 years since the arcade game was introduced to popular culture. “Firefly” star Nathan Fillion talks about his favorite arcade games in this exclusive video interview.

06.27.11

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) applauds the Supreme Court decision to affirm the First Amendment rights of creators, readers and retailers by denying states the ability to create new restrictions on violent content in Brown v. EMA.  In a 7-2 decision, the high court struck down a California law that would have banned the sale and rental of violent video games to minors, and would have made violence a new category of unprotected speech.

06.27.11

The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling declaring the 2005 California law banning the sale and rental of certain computer and video games to minors unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds.  The ruling concluded that the California law did not survive the heightened scrutiny applicable to statutes regulating constitutionally protected speech.  The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) weighed in on the groundbreaking decision.

06.27.11

Bo Andersen, President & CEO, Entertainment Merchants Association (formerly Video Software Dealers Association), applauds the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that found California’s video game restriction law to be unconstitutional. The EMA took the battle to Arnold Schwarzenegger (Video Software Dealers Association v. Schwarzenegger) when he was in office and aligned with the Entertainment Software Association for the case, which was heard last October as Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association.