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MIPTV 2013: Shaftesbury to Shop TV Rights to Goalpost Film Titles
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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PDT 4/3/2013 by Etan Vlessing IFC Films "The Trip" Movies from the U.K. foreign sales company available include Michael Winterbottom's "The Trip," Rupert Wyatt's "The Escapist" and Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves." Canadian indie distributor
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Report: O.C. game platform for sale for $500 million
Orange :: NH :: USA | 12 months ago
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We do not comment on rumors," Gaikai representative Jim Redner of The Redner Group LLC, replied to a Register request for a company comment. Gaikai, founded in 2010 by Andrew Gault and Rui Pereira, does not create video games; it provides the
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Gaming Your Brain for Violence
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 3 years ago
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The New York Times ran a story on the dehumanizing effect of military training. The reporter wrote of the leaked video: “One reason that the soldiers seemed as if they were playing a video game is that, in a morbid but necessary sense, they were.”
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Porn Stars Play Dungeons & Dragons
What might make Dungeons & Dragons more appealing to people not particularly interested in role-playing games? How about adding porn stars, a stripper, and Sasha Grey? Everyone stays clothed and the conversation stays fairly G-rated—
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Escape to the movies? Two out of five people do: worldwide poll
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 3 years ago
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32 pm TWN, Reuters Escape to the movies?...You're not alone, with a Reuters/Ipsos poll finding more than two out of five people across the globe go to the cinema often to suspend reality, if only for a few hours. The survey of more than 24,000
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Zero Punctuation takes on Torchlight
Unknown :: Unknown | over 3 years ago
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It’s a fun Diablo clone that is both affordable and approachable. I put a number of hours into it before giving it up for a few days and realizing that I had almost no desire to start playing again, but for a few days I was hooked. The Escapist’s
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Facebook Fugitive's 15 Minutes are Finished
London :: United Kingdom | over 3 years ago
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Hollesley Bay is described as an "open" prison, and on September 23, Lynch literally walked out of the cushy establishment. He quickly littered his Facebook page with pictures of him giving the one-finger salute to law enforcement, and, oddly,
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Yahtzee and others to open Australian video game bar
Unknown :: Unknown | over 3 years ago
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Rather than make a four-to-six minute video decrying the lack of gaming-themed bars in his current country of residence, The Escapist's Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw has partnered with three other gentlemen to open Mana Bar . According to the press release,
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"Frumpy Mom" Responds To Attacks
Bogotá :: Colombia | over 3 years ago
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Marla Jo Fisher, staff writer at the Orange County Register, responded by saying that videogames are for "young men with no self-esteem" and that games "are doing bad things to kids' brains." Earlier this week, I wrote about the self-described "
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The Escapist Presents Loading Ready Run
Unknown :: Unknown | over 3 years ago
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From the creative minds behind The Escapist's hit video series ENN and Unskippable, comes Loading Ready Run, the sketch comedy web series that's older than YouTube. Every Monday since 2003, the Loading Ready Run crew has been producing their cult hit
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