EA’s latest property, Dante’s Inferno, has been the center of a highly contested bidding war for rights to produce a motion picture. The smoke has cleared on that contest, with Universal being the winner according to Variety’s Michael Fleming.

“The deal — an option fee against seven-figure purchase price — ended an auction that pitted four [...]

20th Century Fox’s Max Payne finished at the top of the box office this past weekend, grossing $18 million during its opening in theaters.
Based on the game of the same name, Max Payne stars Mark Wahlberg as a man who is hunting down the killer of his wife and child. The movie finished ahead of [...]

Brash Entertainment co-founder and board member Thomas Tull has left the company after two years, according to Variety’s Ben Fritz.
Tull, who played a key part in the startup of the company, is said to be disappointed with Brash’s products and direction. While Tull was there, titles like Jumper, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Space Chimps [...]

Capcom is gearing up to debut their new Resident Evil film, Resident Evil: Degeneration, at a number of outlets around the world in the coming weeks.
Starting next week on October 10, Capcom will premiere the movie to the world at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. Following that, the film will make its North American premiere [...]

Electronic Arts announced this morning that they have signed a three game development deal with Hollywood director/filmmaker Zack Synder. Most recently known for his work on 300, in addition to next year’s adaptation of Watchmen, he will lead the creative direction of the games alongside EA’s Los Angeles studio.
“I think video games are cool because [...]

The theme of the 10 year life cycle across all of their PlayStation brands was Sony’s main driving point today as they held their annual E3 press event. In addition to that, a number of new games were revealed for the first time, as well as additional information on their upcoming movie and television downloads [...]

More announcements are coming out from Sony’s presentations today regarding their future plans for the PlayStation 3. Following news of the company’s upcoming movie downloads service, Sony Computer Entertainment head Kaz Hirai unveiled “Life with PlayStation”, a new feature for the system.
With it, users can check their news and weather from locations from across the [...]

Sony Computer Entertainment will be launching a movie download service this summer for the PlayStation 3 in the the United States, according to a report today from the Associated Press.
Confirmed by Kaz Hirai, the service, which will join the likes of Netflix and Xbox Live’s movie downloads service, will also come to Europe and Japan [...]