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Awesomenauts just launched on Steam (opens in new tab) last week, and according to a press release they just sent over, they’ve been enjoying some fantastic success on the new platform (which echoes what we’ve heard about other console downloadable games like Orcs Must Die! and Mondey Night Combat.) Although …

Kick-Ass 2 is finally up and running, and in order to reassure fans that that’s the case, a new poster has been released for the film, promising its arrival in 2013. The poster is pretty much as simple as it gets, with the original Kick-Ass title logo now joined by …

Two days ago we got a little excited because we thought we’d just heard – for the first time ever, amazingly – a Microsoft representative publicly mention thata new Xbox console is in development (opens in new tab). “We’ve had Hotmail and operated Hotmail for about 16 years, we obviously …

According to Mojang CEO Carl Manneh, the company is having an amazing year in 2012 as Minecraft proliferates to many different platforms. MCV Nordic (opens in new tab) reports that Mojang took in around $8.9 million in profits in 2011, and now that number is poised to hit nearly $18 …

[brightcove]1677034302001[/brightcove] The Bourne Legacy is one of the films we’re most excited about this summer, so we were very happy to sit down for a chat with its star, Jeremy Renner. Renner’s character Aaron Cross replaces Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne as the franchise key focus in The Bourne Legacy – …

Russell Crowe is poised to give the troubled Dark Tower movie adaptation a boost by signing on to play gunslinging lead Roland Deschain. The Dark Tower has had one heck of a troubled pre-production, with director Ron Howard still attempting to convince Warner Bros that the cost of making the …

Having successfully brought Truman Capote to life on screen with Infamous , Toby Jones is taking on a second media icon by playing Alfred Hitchcock in The Girl. Now two new images from the HBO production have been released online, showing Jones in full prosthetic pout as the master director. …

[brightcove]1340047885001[/brightcove] The Hobbit , Peter Jackson’s hotly anticipated adaptation of the prequel to The Lord Of The Rings , will now officially be three films, rather than the previously announced two. Jackson first hinted at the possibility at Comic-Con 2012 , and since entering discussions with Warner Bros on the …

Avatar may be the highest-grossing movie of all time, but director James Cameron isn’t rushing himself when it comes to making the sequel(s). In fact, according to a recent profile by The New York Times (opens in new tab) , Avatar 2 may not open until at least 2015 (and …

(opens in new tab) A new trailer for Doctor Who series seven will debut at 8pm next Thursday (2 August), while a debut trailer for Merlin series five will air at 8pm the day after (3 August). Both will be repeated a week later They are part of a larger …