Blockbuster Inc. ( BBI, BBI.B), a global leader in entertainment, today announced that consumers in the Seattle area can now rent the latest new video games such as "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2", "Assassin's Creed 2" and "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" online at blockbuster.com and have them delivered directly to their mailbox, expanding on a pilot test launched in Cleveland earlier this year.

While its competitors flounder and cut staff, Activision is still expanding, VARIETY reports.

Hasbro has identified MY LITTLE PONY as its first property to build a TV series out of for its joint venture kids cable channel with Discovery, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

As EA continues to take a hatchet to its staff counts and cuts costs at every turn, the company has set its sights on California-based developer Pandemic, USA TODAY reports.

Two weeks after SAG rejected a similar offer, AFTRA members have ratified a new deal with video game producers, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

The Art Institute of Vancouver will present ARTimation Media Arts Festival on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009.

Funcom has decided to repeat the successful re-evaluation campaign that went live earlier this year for the best-selling massively multiplayer online role-playing game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’.

CBS is lining up several of its top series for a collection of videogame adaptations, reports VARIETY.

The ska-rock band No Doubt has sued Activision over their avatars in BAND HERO, reports VARIETY.

Target Entertainment Group has appointed m4e AG as the licensing sub-agent for PlayStation software IPs (intellectual properties) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition, m4e subsidiary Telescreen will act as the sub-agent in Benelux.

Disney plans to reintroduce Mickey in EPIC MICKEY, a videogame set to release late next year, VARIETY reports.

TRON LEGACY writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have been hired to write the adaptation of the board game OUIJA for Universal, HEAT VISION reports.

Get ready to build a band and rock the universe with LEGO Rock Band, the multiplayer music videogame that will have the entire family drumming, strumming and rocking to the beat.

VICON House of Moves was involved in creating the animation and providing motion capture services for the recently released highly cinematic video game, "WET," published by Bethesda Softworks.

Today, Sony Online Entertainment LLC, and Wizards of the Coast LLC announced they are developing Magic: The Gathering – Tactics, an online, 3D turn-based strategy game played within the rich Magic: The Gathering Multiverse.

SAG actors have voted down a tentative agreement with videogame publishers, reports VARIETY.

Game Developers Conference 2010, presented by Think Services, has announced that the call for submissions is open for GDC's suite of Summits, which take place on the first two days of GDC week in San Francisco, March 9th-10th 2010.

After tying up a deal with Microsoft's XBox 360 more than a year ago, Netflix has brokered a second major distribution deal with a major videogame console: Sony's PlayStation 3, VARIETY reports.

HQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced the release of its wackiest SpongeBob SquarePants video game to date -- SpongeBob’s Truth or Square -- to all major retailers nationwide for the Wii™ system, Nintendo DS™, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and PSP® (PlayStationâPortable) system.

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' national board of directors have agreed to send a proposed extension of its video game contract to members for ratification, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.