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EXCLUSIVE: Halo‘s long road to the small screen has taken one final turn. Showtime’s anticipated series based on the hugely popular Xbox video game franchise will migrate to Paramount+ and be available exclusively on ViacomCBS’ streamer. The announcement will be made during the ViacomCBS Streaming Event this…

The world of DOTA will come to Netflix as the streamer announced on Tuesday a new anime series based off the popular video game franchise from Valve. DOTA: Dragon’s Blood is an 8-episode series that will launch globally on the streaming platform on March 25. The series will chronicle the feats of Davion, a renowned…

EXCLUSIVE: Crackle has set March 1 as the world premiere date for five-part documentary series Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story. The show is written and directed by Jeremy Snead and executive produced (and narrated) by Sean Astin. World rights were acquired by Screen Media Ventures, the exclusive supplier of…

EXCLUSIVE: Riot Games — the developer and publisher behind League of Legends — has named former Hulu and Netflix exec Ryan Crosby to head marketing and consumer products at its new entertainment division. He'll develop and produce entertainment extensions based on Riot’s global IP, reporting to Shauna Spenley…

UTA announced Tuesday that it signed FaZe Clan, the prominent gaming and entertainment organization. The agency will assist FaZe’s expansion into scripted and unscripted content, podcasting, live streaming and brand partnerships. FaZe is home to some of the most celebrated players from around the globe, including…

Samsung Electronics America and Amazon-owned Twitch have set a one-year mobile gaming partnership centered on Twitch Rivals North America, a series of online competitions. The Samsung Galaxy will exclusively host regular mobile gaming challenges and events. The companies formalized the agreement in a live Twitch…

EXCLUSIVE: Riot Games has named former Netflix marketing and publicity VP Shauna Spenley the Global President of Entertainment of its newly formed entertainment division. The video game publisher, known for titles including League of Legends and Valorant, announced that Spenley will spearhead Riot Games’s expansions…

Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II, created and directed by Neil Druckmann, swept The Game Awards on Thursday. A follow up to the original 2013 video game, The Last of Us Part II took home a total of seven awards at Geoff Keighley’s annual awards show. Upon receiving the Game of the Year prize from Christopher…

UPDATED with additional details and extended trailer: Vin Diesel is one Hollywood name in a star-studded cast for a new animated series inspired by the 2017 action survival video game Ark: Survival Evolved. The cast, which also includes Elliot Page, David Tennant, Michelle Yeoh and Jeffrey Wright, was announced…

The video game division of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot has formed an in-house game development studio, tapping industry veteran Michael Booth to serve as its general manager. Booth, most recently social VR director for Facebook, is best known as the creator and lead designer of survival horror game Left 4 Dead. He will…

EXCLUSIVE: A lawsuit filed Friday by Activision Blizzard against Netflix for snagging one of the video game giant's top executives surely must be an unwelcome case of deja voodoo for the streamer. "Netflix unapologetically recruits talent without regard to its ethical and legal obligations," declares the complaint…

Tencent Music Entertainment Group acquired an undisclosed minority stake in LA-based Wave and the two have inked a strategic partnership to catapult the interactive virtual entertainment company into China. The agreement calls for TME, China's leading online music platform, to air Wave experiences on all its…