The VGAs are coming up soon. There will be a lot of videogame announcements and brand new footage from previously announced games. It’s almost a guarantee Batman: Arkham City will be making an appearance at some point. This very game was announced at last year’s VGAs after all. Today we’re getting a prelude to the VGA festivities with a new Arkham City teaser trailer from MSN. In it, Batman is facing a more sophisticated enemy.

If you need a movie or two or ten to play on your PS3 to prove it does Blu-ray movies well, this is a great day to buy a few.

The Warner Bros. online store has a Cyber Monday sale going on right now that feels more like a Clearing House than a Holiday sale.

Today (Monday, November 29, 2010) only you can get many DVDs and Blu-rays for about 60% off…

Warner Brothers has announced that the free-to-play (F2P) version of the Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) will launch on September 10, 2010. Developer Turbine added this pricing option as a result of the incredible success when their other MMORPG, Dungeons and Dragons Online went F2P in 2009.

Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment has announced that Lord of the Rings: War in the North will be on display at E3 this week.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Group recently announced that it has acquired Turbine Inc., the Boston-based developer of popular online role-playing games The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) and Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO).

Turbine has long been known for its MMORPGs, having also developed Asheron’s Call back in 2001. It’s recently been known for successfully and smoothly switching their business model for DDO from a monthly-based subscription to a free-to-play method. They still offer monthly subscriptions but their focus is on the free-to-play system.

If you are trying to replace all those standard definition DVDs with higher def Blu-ray discs, Warner bros. wants to help. Well, at least with their own movies.

Dubbed the DVD2Blu program, you send your old DVDs (sans box) to WB, pay a replacement fee ($7.95 to $9.95) per movie and the company will send you a Blu-ray version of the movie.

There are currently 55 movies on the DVD2Blu list to choose from and, if you spend more than $25, they waive the shipping cost. That basically means you need to find three or four movies to replace, depending on the replacement cost.

This has been a big week for Harry Potter fans. The sixth movie in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince has just been released in theaters. Once again, Steve Kloves is responsible for the screenplay, and the director is David Yates, who also directed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and is directing both parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. While the movie doesn’t capture all of the moments of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince novel, it does a adequate job conveying the overall spirit and crucial portions.

It’s a dark time in the wizarding world. Everyone now knows that Voldemort has been resurrected, the Death Eaters are starting to wage terrorist-like attacks and a war is finally beginning. No place seems safe anymore, though Dumbledore and the staff of Hogwarts are doing their best to provide a safe learning environment.

Harry’s role in this latest movie isn’t so much a student, though he does still attend classes, play Quidditch and even fall in love. Instead, he’s an agent for Dumbledore…

Title: Freakazoid! Season One DVD (aka Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid! Season One DVD)Price: $22.95Release Date: July 29, 2008Publisher: Warner Bros. (Amblin Entertainment)Pros: Wacky super-hero humor that stands up well to the internet generation. Great art, plenty of fun references, lots of classic homages and good transfer quality.Cons: Not a lot of extras and still mis-marketed toward kids. A few very short segments have gritty transfers.Overall Score: Two thumbs up; 90/100; A-; * * * * out of five.

Screw spiders, crazy experiments and crash landings. It’s the power of the internet, man.

Relatively early in the mass-appear years of the world wide web, a group of animators had the foresight to create a super hero endowed the with intelligence, mysterious powers and grand sarcasm of the internet.

Due to poor scheduling and being mistakenly marketed towards kids, Freakazoid!‘s quick wit and outrageous (and often incongruous) humor only lasted two seasons. Fortunately for us fans, the first season of the series has finally been released on DVD (two discs, one box) so you can enjoy it over and over and over and again and over again until, of course, you completely freak out. In a good way…

Further demonstrating the increasing availability and decreasing price of memory, Target has put out a Speed Racer themed gift card that features a USB 2.0 Flash drive built right in.

The plastic promo gift card features a tiny USB cable (an inch long) that clicks flat into the card and can be ejected using a tiny mechanical switch at the bottom edge. It also has an activity light on the upper right edge of the card.

The internal Flash drive shows 62.8 MB total capacity with 51.6 MB of it filled with Speed Racer movie promotion items including a cheat code for the Wii version of the upcoming Speed Racer videogame…

After the major announcement that Warner Bros. (one of the largest distributors of DVDs) will be going Blu-Ray only, Kotaku is reporting that sister company New Line will be following suit. This news, combined with the fact that an HD DVD press conference scheduled for CES has been canceled, has many speculating that we can more »