The Walt Disney Company has obtained a controlling stake in UTV including the media firm’s games publishing arm UTV Ignition. Disney will be complete the acquisition shortly via a delisting action which will see UTV’s shares removed from local stock exchanges. It will start this process from February 6th, according …
Read More »THQ quashes Disney cancellation rumours
THQ is still funding development of an undisclosed project based on the upcoming Pixar movie Brave, a senior source within Disney has told Develop. The movie tie-in project, due for a summer release, had become the subject of unconfirmed rumours emerging over the weekend. Analyst Kevin Dent claimed on Twitter …
Read More »THQ’s Pixar game Brave ‘not cancelled’
Publishing source squashes rumours
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Publisher contradicts analyst doom-mongering
Read More »Epic Mickey 2 accidentally announced
It appears that Disney Interactive has accidentally announced Epic Mickey 2 in a newsletter – which, incidentally, has subsequently been amended. Eurogamer reports that the game was dated for a Christmas 2012 release on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Hopes of a sequel to the 2010 Wii original had seemingly …
Read More »Kingdom Hearts 3D named and dated
Newly-named RPG Dream Drop Distance will bring Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts franchise to 3DS in 2012. The game was originally announced as Kingdom Hearts 3D at E3 2010 and was featured in a list of major third-party franchises heading to Nintendo’s new handheld. As with previous Kingdom Hearts titles, it …
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Angry Birds studio wants to be 'as big as Disney'
Read More »New Disney Pixar game named for Kinect
Microsoft has announced a brand new Kinect-only game featuring many of Disney Pixar’s most popular IPs. Formerly known as Rush, the freshly renamed Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure will include appearances from Toy Story, Cars, The Incredibles, Up! And Ratatouille. Little is known about the game other than it …
Read More »Top OnLive exec quits
John Spinale departs for Disney's social games division
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