Warner Bros. Interactive annonce le développement de The Lord of the Rings : War in the North qui viendra enrichir la gamme de jeux déjà sortis inspirés de l'univers de...

Warner Home Video has announced Supernatural: The Complete First Season for release on Blu-ray on June 15. This Blu-ray edition will include over two hours of new features not included in the DVD set. No announcement has been made regarding the second season of this series, which after this release will be the only one still without a high-def edition....

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Warner Home Video has announced the BBC/National Geographic co-production How the Earth Changed History for release in a two-disc Blu-ray set on July 6. This documentary series, from the team behind Earth: The Biography, reveals the epic tale of how the forces of the earth have shaped human civilization....

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Warner Home Video has announced The Book of Eli for release on a Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy Combo Pack on June 15. This post-apocalyptic movie starring Denzel Washington opened theatrically in January 15 and earned a total of about $94 million at the box office. The BD will exclusively include Warner's now-famous picture-in-picture Maximum Movie Mode....

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J.R.R. Tolkien’s imagination has been the spawning point for many video-game projects, either directly or indirectly.  Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment are taking the direct approach with The Lord Of The Rings: War In The North.

Quoi ? La Gare du Nord

Décidément, les ch'tits sont vraiment partout depuis le succès interplanétaire du film de Dany Boon et voilà que la prestigieuse licence du Seigneur des Anneaux n'y échappera pas puisque Warner Bros Interactive vient d'annoncer un certain Le Seigneur des Anneaux : La Guerre du Nord sur PC, PS3 et ...

Buzz is hitting the web from ShoWest where Warner Bros. head Alan Horn revealed that they will be making fifth Final Destination, because "we cant resist." Opening against Rob Zombie's Halloween II, New Line Cinema's 3D The Final Destination won box office gold taking the #1 spot and has since topped $180m worldwide. No wonder another sequel is planned.

Warner Bros. Interactive has announced of Lord of the Rings: War in the North, a co-op action RPG, to be released in 2011 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. The game will be based on the J.R.R. Tolkien novel series, not the film property, and will "explore both original and familiar narrative elements" of the series, says the company's press release. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment holds the rights to adapt both the films and ...

La Warner diffuse aujourd'hui la vidéo d'intro de LEGO Harry Potter qui respecte quasi scrupuleusement le début de l'histoire du jeune magicien, du pas de porte de sa tante quand il était bébé, à l'apparition d'Agrid dans la maison isolée, l'humour de Traveller's Tales en plus. On en profite pour v...

Right-wing bloggers and columnists have recently accused President Obama of instigating an "intifada" against Israel through his administration's criticism of Israel's announced plan to expand housing in a section of East Jerusalem or by purportedly "incentiviz[ing] Palestinian Arabs to violent uprising."

Columnist, bloggers invoke "Obama Intifada"

Shapiro: "This is the Obama Intifada." Ben Shapiro wrote in his March 17 syndicated column that "When President Obama is unhappy about his inability to convince Americans to nationalize health care, he incentivizes Palestinian Arabs to violent uprising" and that the Obama administration's response to Israel's announcement "was far too well-rehearsed for it to have been triggered by something equivalent to a Housing and Urban Development dispute in the United States." Shapiro added:

This is the Obama Intifada. It is he who has suggested that the Palestinian Arabs have legitimate grievances, that Israel is the victimizer, and that the United States will stand aside and allow violent atrocities by Arabs to go forward without comment. He wants this Intifada, and he's got it.

The Obama Intifada will serve a dual purpose: it will knock health care off the front pages, and it will provide a "crisis" for Obama to solve. If a few Jews get killed, Obama doesn't truly care. What's a few eggs if you're frying up a socialized health care omelet? What's a few Jews if you can win another Nobel Peace Prize?

Nothing, to President Obama. All that matters is his personal victory, even if America and her allies lose.

Geller issues "Call to End Obama's Intifada." In a March 16 Atlas Shrugs post headlined "Action Alert: Call to End Obama's Intifada," Pamela Geller urged her readers to "Join Christians United for Israel in their surge against the President's intifada against Israel," and quoted their statement that "the Obama Administration has reacted to this announcement by creating the worst crisis in relations with Israel in decades. First Vice President Biden condemned the announcement in unusually harsh terms. Then, over the weekend, Secretary of State Clinton and advisor David Axelrod escalated the rhetoric still further. Today, Middle East envoy George Mitchell indefinitely postponed his trip to the region. Where will it end?"

Jawa Report headline: "The Obama Intifada." A March 16 Jawa Report blog post, headlined "The Obama Intifada," included numerous links to stories and blog posts about the controversy, adding, "This too shall pass, by which I mean the current US administration." The post was a reposting of a March 15 post on the Internet Haganah blog carrying a similar "Obama Intifada" headline.

"Obama Intifada" meme first embraced by right-wingers in 2008

2008 report made right-wing rounds. Jihad Watch and NewsBusters were among the conservative blogs that highlighted a November 3, 2008, article in an Arabic newspaper by Abdelbari Atwan, the first journalist to have met with Osama bin Laden. According to Robert Spencer's translation of the French-language blog post he cited at Jihad Watch, Atwan's article carried the headline "The Historic Intifada of Obama" and claimed that with Obama's election, "the Americans thus give the kickoff of their historic Intifada against racism." In highlighting the Atwan's article, NewsBusters' Warner Todd Huston wrote: "A president Obama is no friend to Israel or the west, at least as far as Abdelbari Atwan and many of his comrades are concerned. The most pressing question that Americans have is: should we support a man for President of the United States that our enemies imagine to be on their side?"

[Finishing up our GDC written coverage, we were going to pick just one lecture, but we decided to just go with all of the major ones, as well as the big announcements - lots of neat stuff to check through here.]

With Game Developers Conference 2010 now at an end, we've rounded up the top announcements, from Sony Move through OnLive's release specifics, and write-ups of the biggest talks into one handy news story.

The official GDC 2010 page on Gamasutra has more than 100 news stories on one of the biggest events of the gaming year, but we're now highlighting the biggest product-related announcements of the show.

This will be followed by our pick of the top ten most intriguing write-ups from the more than 450 sessions on display at this year's GDC in San Francisco - created by the UBM Techweb Game Network, as is this website.

Here are some of the top announcements and write-ups from last week's show:

The Announcements

GDC: Sony's Motion Controller Is 'PlayStation Move'
"At GDC on Wednesday, Sony revealed more details about its PS3 motion controller, which isn't called Arc or Gem, but 'PlayStation Move,' a product Sony says will bring on 'the next generation of motion gaming.'"

GDC: OnLive Gets Launch Date, Reveals Initial Publishers
"Cloud-based game streaming service OnLive has announced an official U.S. launch date of June 17, 2010, including games from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, 2K Games, THQ and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment."

GDC: Microsoft Announces XNA Game Studio 4.0
"Microsoft has announced version 4.0 of its XNA Game Studio development package, which includes support for its new Windows Phone 7 Series, as well as enhancing features for Xbox 360 and PC game development."

GDC: InstantAction Reveals Platform For Instantly Playing Large-Download Games
"InstantAction unveiled its platform allowing users to play full PC games in their browser as they download titles, made possible with a delivery mechanism that CEO Louis Castle tells Gamasutra is superior to OnLive."

Valve Confirms Mac Versions Of Steam, Valve Games
"Valve will release its Steam digital distribution service for Mac along with Mac-native versions of its own games, the company confirmed today, calling the Mac a 'tier-1 platform.'"

Other notable GDC-timed announcements include: Bigpoint Announces Battlestar MMO, Unity Partnership, San Francisco Office; Unity Announces 3.0 Platform, Support For PS3, iPad, And Android; Palm to Debut webOS Plug-in Development Kit at GDC 2010; MySpace Launches New Games Experience, Tools.

The Top Lectures

GDC: Will Wright Peels Back Layers Of Entertainment, Games
"Will Wright (The Sims, SimCity) explained how 'perspectives are more valuable than solutions' in a fascinating talk during the closing hours of the Game Developers Conference 2010 on Saturday."

GDC: Jenova Chen's HeavenVille Wins Game Design Challenge
"HeavenVille, Jenova Chen (Flower), took this year's top prize at the GDC Game Design Challenge, which also featured games by designers Kim Swift, Heather Kelley, and Erin Robinson."

GDC: Sid Meier's Lessons On Gamer Psychology
"'Gameplay is a psychological experience,' according to legendary Civilization creator Sid Meier, who gave tips on taking advantage of player psychology during his GDC keynote Friday."

GDC: Hecker's Nightmare Scenario - A Future Of Rewarding Players For Dull Tasks
"It's possible that an over-reliance on metrics-driven design and extrinsic rewards for in-game actions could lead to a future of 'designing shitty games that you have to pay people to play,' warns independent developer Chris Hecker."

GDC: Blizzard's Core Game Design Concepts
"Blizzard EVP of game design Rob Pardo shares Blizzard's core design concepts, offering examples of places where the World of Warcraft developer succeeded and failed in creating compelling multiplayer experiences."

GDC: Nintendo's Sakamoto's Four Creative Tenets
"Nintendo's Yoshio Sakamoto explains the methodology that allows him to create two franchises as polar-opposite as Metroid and Wario Ware -- and drops hints on Other M."

GDC: Peter Molyneux On Simplifying And Enhancing Fable III
"Lionhead's Peter Molyneux talked about the 'angst' Lionhead went through on whether to de-RPG Fable III -- and why and how the team went through that process, from a design perspective."

GDC: ThatGameCompany's Santiago, Hunicke Talk Exploratory Development
"An exploratory development process can be a solution to the anxieties of game development, but only if it's managed with confidence and honesty, say Thatgamecompany's Kellee Santiago and Robin Hunicke."

GDC: Indie Keynote - Championing Immediacy And Depth
"Tiger Style co-founder Randy Smith (Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor) delivered the keynote of the Indie Games Summit, encouraging indie developers to embrace a philosophy of immediacy and depth to hasten their popular ascendancy."

GDC: 2D Boy's Carmel On A New Alternative For Indies
"At the 2010 Independent Gaming Summit at GDC, 2D Boy's Ron Carmel talked about why traditional publishing just doesn't work for indies -- and why the newly-unveiled Indie Fund hopes to offer alternatives."

Other notable GDC 2010 lecture write-ups include: Facebook Keynote Discusses True Multi-Platform Gaming; Taking Inspiration from EVE Online's Espionage Metagame; Creating Deus Ex Human Revolution's Cybernetic Renaissance; Refining The Real-Time Combat In Mass Effect 2; EA's Cousins Talks Social Gaming's Wal-Mart Parallel.

En 20087, Warner a récupéré les droits d'adaptation en jeu des films Le Seigneur des Anneaux. Ils ont aussi ceux des livres. Ils viennent d'annoncer The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, un hack'n ...

Repéré lors de la fuite de planning de Warner Bros., le jeu de rôle basé sur l'univers du Seigneur des Anneaux vient d'être annoncé de manière officielle par l'éditeur américain, son nom définitif étant Le Seigneur des Anneaux : La Guerre du Nord. En développement sur PC, PS3 et Xbox 360 chez Sno...

New story! Co-op! Make your own hero!

Warner Bros. has excitedly announced a "mature", action-RPG take on The Lord of the Rings for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Subtitled War in the North and due next year, this instalment pursues new storylines and ventures to unseen lands in the company of less familiar characters - although the more well-trodden areas of Middle-Earth are not forgotten.

There will be online co-op for up-to three people, and it seems as though characters will be created from scratch to write their own place in Tolkien's world. You'll get to pick from Dwarves, Elves and Race of Man, judging by the official website. Promised are "extensive" customisation and development, "expansive" co-op options, and upgradeable skills, weapons and abilities.

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I'm not particularly enthusiastic to see X-Men going backwards into prequels instead of venturing into a glorious future, but I'm happy to see Bryan Singer return to the franchise. The director sat down with Hero Complex and Lauren Shuler-Donner to discuss the past, the present, and the future of the X-Men franchise. It's a very enjoyable read, but it's also full of maddening off-the-record moments that are going to set the rumor mill churning.

Singer casually mentions he met with Hugh Jackman recently to discuss a project, and drops strong hints that Jackman wants him to direct Wolverine 2. Naturally, they're also trying to find a way to work Wolverine into X-Men: First Class. Continuity holds no weight with Old Canucklehead anymore, so why the heck not? Singer half laments his commitments to Warner Bros and Jack the Giant Killer: "I wish I could be four people," he moans. "I could make everybody happy."

Shuler Donner is also open about having offered X-Men 4 to Singer, and the director is quite determined he'll take the job at some point. During the interview, he tells Donner to "Hold that one off for just a little, I'm fixated on the other one right now", and she agrees. "I will, I will ... I'm holding it open with high hopes. It's totally different [from 'First Class'] and it will be so interesting for you." At that point, Hero Complex notes the conversation went off record, but hints there's more than just vague ideas being tossed around. It's as if Singer had a taste of the world outside of the X-Men, and didn't like it, so he's selling them his soul. And that's okay by me. I could use another X2 to make me appreciate my favorite superhero team again. Maybe he could even rescue Movie Wolverine.

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Warner Bros. announces Champions of Norrath developer Snowblind is working on War in the North, due out in 2011 for PC, PS3, Xbox 360.

Warner Home Video has announced Saints Road to XLIV: Post-season Collector's Edition on a four-disc Blu-ray set, with a release date of June 1. Now you can relive the New Orleans Saints' remarkable NFL championship run with the original network broadcasts of four games, from their exciting week 13 overtime win in Washington to their post-season run....

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Warner Home Video has announced the release of the latest movie directed by Clint Eastwood, Invictus, which will street on May 18 in a Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo edition. This movie, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, tells the inspiring true story of how the South African rugby team united the nation shortly after the disappearance of the apartheid regime....

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Fresh off her Oscar win, Sandra Bullock has essentially confirmed rumors Jesse James cheated on her by pulling out the UK premiere of The Blind Side which Warner Bros. has decided to scrap all together. BBC News reports: Warner... ...read full story

Time Warner Cable customers in Dallas can now get 50Mbps Internet service.

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