If you haven’t been paying attention to the Ace Attorney live-action movie adaptation, you may want to start. It turns out it won’t be trapped in Japan. Takashi Miike, the director, was on hand when the movie was shown at the Netherlands International Film Festival Rotterdam and said that it will be released worldwide. Granted, more »

The Avengers are making their movie debut in 2012 but first they’ll be setting up headquarters on Facebook. Playdom is releasing Avengers Alliance, a social game challenging you to fight alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Your character is an agent for SHIELD, Marvel’s super secret espionage organization.  To play, you collect Marvel heroes including Captain America more »

Alvin, up to his usual hijinks again and has managed to get Dave and the crew shipwrecked on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere.

As if that isn’t bad enough Simon was bitten by a spider and now thinks he’s a French stud named Simone, Eleanor broke her leg and there is a crazy lady living on the island that talks to various sports balls. Not to mention the Chipmunks old manager Ian is back and dressed like a giant bird. And that’s only the first 20 minutes of the movie.

Microsoft released some new apps for Xbox Live today. If you head over to the Apps Marketplace in the United States, you’ll see video apps for TMZ, YouTube, Verizon FiOS TV and MSNBC. There is also an app for iHeartRadio if you’re more inclined to listen to music rather than watch videos. Apps for other countries have been released as well.

The shiny new Xbox 360 dashboard update is scheduled to arrive on Tuesday, December 6. Besides sporting a brand new look designed in Microsoft’s Metro style, the update is also going to transform Xbox Live into a more capable video hub. Several video partners are going to provide content for Xbox Live, but several of their video applications won’t be around when the update goes live.

Rising star Travis Rice, featured in the snowboarding film The Art of Flight, is known for playing fast and loose with the law of gravity. EA decided he would be a perfect addition to the revamp of its SSX snowboarding series. Rice will be the first real snowboarder to appear in the game, alongside returning characters such as Mac and Kaori. EA calls Rice a real-life superhero, and believes he’s an ideal spokesman for a game that features nine of the world’s deadliest descents.

Warner Brothers may be locking the Harry Potter movie series away in some vault after December 29, 2011, but people are sure getting every opportunity to experience Harry Potter overkill before that happens. The latest announcement actually isn’t from Warner Bros. even. It’s from Sony. It seems a Harry Potter 3D Experience Movie Pack PS3 has abruptly appeared!

While it doesn’t come with any kind of special PS3, or even a lightning bolt sticker to customize the standard 160gb black system included, it could definitely be perfect for any Harry Potter series fan…

Well Potter fans, it may be time to adjust your holiday wish lists. Warner Bros. has decided it wants to be a buzzkill by locking away every Harry Potter movie ever. Yes, this is for real. The company has decided that if people don’t buy physical copies of the eight movies before December 29, 2011, they won’t be able to buy them at all. After date, they’ll stop being shipped to stores.

It’s quite ridiculous and seems like Warner Bros. has planned this in an attempt make people scramble and buy the physical copies of the Harry Potter movies so the company can make a quick buck…

At E3 2011, Sony revealed CinemaNow would be coming to the PlayStation Network. It was finally released yesterday as part of the weekly PlayStation Store update. CinemaNow is just another option for renting and buying movies and television shows on the PS3. It’s a free download that’s only 17MB. You don’t have to sign up to browse the store, but purchases do require registration and activation.

Rovio, the Finnish game maker that let the Angry Birds loose on the world, could go public as early as 2012. That’s what Rovio Chief Marketing Officer Peter Vesterbacka told Bloomberg.

These birds are nothing short of a pop culture phenom with numerous games, plush toys and even a movie deal in the works. The game concept couldn’t be more simple: The player uses a slingshot to hurl birds at pigs who stole their eggs. That might not seem like the foundation for an empire with an estimated value of around $1 billion but it has been so far.