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Now that it is fully integrated into Warner Bros.’ digital networks division, Machinima today announced a rebranding — with its longtime red-and-black logo turning green — as well as refinements to its distribution and talent strategy. The gamer brand, whose properties attract more than 140 million monthly views, is…

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood doesn’t have to worry about losing ticket buyers to video games, Warner Bros-owned gamer programming company Machinima says it found in a recent survey. All of the 2,051 mostly male players polled in April go to the movies at least once a year vs. 71% of the entire population. Some 17% of gamers…

SAG-AFTRA today said it's ready to return to the bargaining table to end the 232-day strike against nine video game companies if it receives an "honest overture" to do so. The union's statement comes a day after the struck companies invited the union to resume negotiations, which have been stalled since last fall. The…

Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope is partnering with a team of entertainment and games industry veterans to develop a role-playing-style video game based on Apocalypse Now, Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic. The project will be financed in part through a Kickstarter campaign, with backers offered rewards ranging…

SAG-AFTRA and representatives of the struck video game companies don't agree on much; they don't even agree on which companies are being struck. The union says it's striking 11 companies, but the companies' chief negotiator says that two of the companies on the union's strike list aren't even in business anymore. One…

The 11-day-old actors' strike against video game industry will not end until the companies compromise on their refusal to offer some type of residuals for the most successful games, SAG-AFTRA said today. Claiming that it’s already compromised enough, the union says that now “It’s their turn to be reasonable and…

The 11 video game companies struck by SAG-AFTRA have launched a website – sagaftravideogames.com – to give their side of the actors' strike, which is now entering its second week. "This is a strike that did not have to happen," the site says. "SAG-AFTRA never communicated to its membership what was on the table when…

SAG-AFTRA said tonight that it "remains committed" to a negotiated settlement of the four-day-old actors strike against the video game industry but insists that the companies must take its demand for residuals – or "secondary payments" – seriously. "The union remains committed to reaching an equitable solution while…

On the first day of the actors' strike against the video game industry, the companies' chief negotiator is calling on the leadership of SAG-AFTRA to put their final contract proposal to a vote of the union's members "rather than continue to strike over terminology." Dissatisfaction among actors working in the gaming…

Unable to get video game producers to meet their demands at the bargaining table – and unwilling to carry through with their threat to call a strike – SAG-AFTRA instead has "promulgated" a new low-budget contract and is hoping that some video game producers will sign it. Few are expected to, however. The union's old…

You almost never hear anyone talk about a disappointment in a discussion of the revival of the Star Wars franchise. But retailer GameStop did today, telling analysts that there’s been no sign of the Force behind sales of Electronic Arts’ video game Star Wars Battlefront, which was released on November 17. “We had high…

Now that Activision Blizzard has announced its plan to launch a movie and TV studio, Hollywood might want to pay more attention to its hits — including today’s news regarding Call Of Duty: Black Ops III. In its first three days, the tentpole title generated $550 million in worldwide sales, the company says. That makes…