Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy, FOX, Hulu, Jay-Z, Legendary, MPAA, News Corp., Penguin, Random House, RIAA, rupert murdoch, The Butler, The Weinstein Company, Warner Bros., Xbox, Zynga
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: caa, Disney, Dreamworks, e3, Greece, interns, kanye west, Licensing, Microsoft, Netflix, PlayStation, Sony, wme, Xbox
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E3 begins this week and with it will come more news on Sony and Microsoft's new consoles. What might we learn and how will it change the entire gaming industry?
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Tags: e3, Microsoft, Nintendo, PlayStation, playstation 4, Sony, video games, Xbox, Xbox One
Posted in Current Events, Games, Industry, Industry, Technology, Technology | Comments Off on E3 Preview: Big Changes for the Gaming Industry
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Comcast, copyright, digital media, Disney, FTC, FX, FXX, GDC, HBO, Hollywood, Hulu, industry, News Corp., streaming, Supreme Court, television, TV, upfronts, Variety, video games
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: box office, Cablevision, digital media, Disney, DRM, EA, ESA, ESRB, Hollywood, Hulu, industry, megaupload, News Corp., publishing, simcity, television, Time Magazine, Time Warner, upfronts, Viacom
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? March 3-March 16
While the issue is ostensibly about the negative portrayal of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck and WWE have taken advantage of the situation for publicity.
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Tags: Glenn Beck, politics, race/ethnicity, Tea Party movement, television, TV, wrestling, WWE, YouTube
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Politics, TV | Comments Off on WWE vs. Glenn Beck: Potshots to Publicity, Controversy to Cash
While episodic gaming is a new frontier for how developers make games, it is perhaps an even larger divergence in terms of how we play games.
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Tags: adaptation, digital distribution, episodic gaming, gaming, seriality, television, The Walking Dead, video games
Posted in Games, Perspectives, TV | Comments Off on Episodic: What Games Learned From TV
When little is off-limits in terms of storytelling fodder and anything can be expected, how can the audience tell when something truly unexpected happens?
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Tags: liveness, narrative, reality, television, wrestling, WWE
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on When Professional Wrestling Gets Real