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A Squared & Tata Elxsi Form Joint Venture

Further signaling India's growing presence in Hollywood, the visual effects and engineering division of Indian conglomerate Tata is buying a majority share in a Los Angeles-based kids' animation firm.

Animation Headline News

39th Annie Award Nominations Announced

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 39th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation.

Games Headline News

Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town Is Now Available For Wii & DS

Classic Media, a global media company with a portfolio of some of the world’s leading family entertainment brands, and Red Wagon Games, publisher of family friendly interactive entertainment, today announced that the classic holiday television special, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town is now available for the whole family to enjoy on the Wii system and the Nintendo DS hand-held system.

Online Headline News

Moonscoop Develops Social Online Game For Code Lyoko

Moonscoop, the worldwide brand management and entertainment company representing properties from some of the leading animation producers across the globe, is pleased to announce development a new social online Code Lyoko game in partnership with 3D DUO, a leading French creator and producer of video games.

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Mission: Impossible The Game Gets Social Experience

Paramount Pictures and Funtactix, a worldwide developer and publisher of online worlds and social games, today announced the launch of Mission: Impossible The Game the official social game based on the Mission: Impossible movie franchise from Paramount Pictures.

Blogs

Todd Howard Talks Skyrim

By Dan Sarto | Monday, November 21, 2011 at 5:38pm

Bethesda Softworks showcased the much-anticipated Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim at Gamescom 2011 this summer in Cologne, Germany, allowing fans to check out the successor to the award-winning blockbuster hit Oblivion. Bethesda Game Studios has been hard at work on this new role-playing game (RPG), developing a brand-new game engine -- the Creation Engine -- for the open-world experience.

Animation Headline News

House of Moves Debuts Eye Tracking Animation Process in New Need For Speed

By Rick DeMott | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 11:10am

Leading motion capture and animation service company House of Moves (HOM) put their newly revealed electrooculography (EOG) capture pipeline to work for the first time on EA’s video game Need For Speed: The Run, now available.

Home Headline News

Super 8 Game Hide and Tweet Debuts

By Rick DeMott | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 11:07am

Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) invites fans across the country to enter into the world of mystery and adventure created by director J.J. Abrams in his sensational coming-of-age story SUPER 8 with a unique Twitter promotion.

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Brewster Parsons Provides VFX for Xbox 360 Kinect Effect Spots

The artists and producers from visual effects studio Brewster Parsons are very proud to detail their contributions to the sensational Kinect for Xbox 360 spots from advertising agency twofifteenmccann and Anonymous Content director Malcolm Venville.

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Harry Potter Finale Comes to DVD & Blu-ray

The “Boy Who Lived” comes face to face with the enemy of the wizarding world for a final, epic battle in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2” when it arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital Download on November 11 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group.

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Warner Bros. Announces Batman: Arkham City PC Release

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today confirmed that the Games for Windows PC version of Batman: Arkham City will be available in North America beginning November 22, in Australia beginning November 23, in France and Benelux beginning November 24, and in other European territories beginning November 25.

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House of Moves Develops Eye Tracking Process for Film and Game Animation

House of Moves (HOM), a leading motion capture and animation service company, has developed a proprietary process using electrooculraphy (EOG) to capture accurate eye movement for facial animation in films and video games.

Blogs

Back to the Front: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 9:39am

Call of Duty is much more than a video game; it’s a cultural phenomenon. Nowhere was that more evident than at Raleigh Studios in Playa Vista, Calif., where Activision threw a shindig unlike anything ever done in the game industry. For three days in early September, Call of Duty invaded the 12-acre compound Howard Hughes created, the Spruce Goose. Unlike the world’s largest plane, which failed miserably in flight, Call of Duty has soared to new heights with each successive game.

Blogs

Looking Inside the NYU Game Center

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 9:32am

As more and more schools around the globe offer game-design degrees, wannabe game makers have a variety of programs to choose from. Many schools offer vocational programs, but nowadays the academic and creative aspects of game design are also coming into play. Here, we take a look at the Game Center at New York University, one of the newest game design programs that take the latter approach.

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