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Activision Blizzard has bought itself back from financially troubled majority owner Vivendi. The publisher today announced that it and an investor group led by CEO Bobby Kotick purchased more than 600 million shares back from the French media conglomerate for $8.2 billion. Now an independent company with most of its …

It seems to be open season on classic Van Damme action films, with the impending Bloodsport remake to be followed by a new version of Kickboxer . The original Kickboxer saw Van Damme as a martial artist avenging his paralysed brother in a fighting contest where the brutal Tong Po …

Marc Webb has clearly been paying attention to the long-game approach being taken over at Marvel Studios, with the director discussing how his plan for Spider-Man might pan out in a fourth film and beyond. Webb concedes that the new iteration of the series was initially conceived as a trilogy, …

Microsoft has priced its first-party Xbox One games at £49.99 in the UK. Having recently confirmed that it’ll offer software for the upcoming console at $59.99 in the US, the company has begun listing prices on its online store (opens in new tab) in the UK. Microsoft developed titles Forza …

The first official posters have arrived online for X-Men: Days Of Future Past , and we’re happy to say that they’re brilliant. Given just how terrible the photoshopping on the promotional one-sheets for X-Men: First Class was, we were a little wary of anything attempting to combine the old and …

Vin Diesel has been in San Diego to promote Riddick at this year’s Comic-Con, but the comment that has got most tongues wagging was one teasing a different project altogether. During the Riddick panel, Diesel was asked what his vision was for Marvel’s forthcoming movie projects, a reference to the …

Capcom has announced that a new version of classic 1989 side-scrolling action game Strider is due in 2014. The game is in development at Double Helix Games, who are also working on Killer Instinct for Xbox One. This latest game–a 2.5D side-scroller–was confirmed during Capcom’s panel at Comic-Con, which is …

When Microsoft did an about-face on its Xbox One connection and game sharing policies, a few cool features were seemingly left behind. But Xbox One chief product officer Marc Whitten told IGN that it wasn’t an all-or-nothing situation. “I see people feeling like we’ve moved away from digital, when certainly …

Ever wanted a glimpse inside the character creation process that produced favorites like Kuma, Jack, and Bob? More than half of the ten new challengers up for inclusion in PS3 free-to-play fighter Tekken Revolution were rejected for being too weird. That’s right. Too weird for Tekken. Like Syake/Salmon: “Originally planned …

An upcoming Xbox 360 system update will see Microsoft Points retired in favour of local currency, but the plan got off to a wobbly start after beta testers found that the conversion process left them being asked to pay significantly more for content. Responding to complaints, Microsoft labelled the botched …