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Studio Ghibli Tease Mysterious Lucasfilm Collaboration
Studio Ghibli has always typically tended to prefer to steer away from collaborations wherever possible. Perhaps this was partly out of the experience they had when they themselves had to partner with bigger studios in their very early days. – It is, however, hard to deny that over the last…
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Disney Celebrates Beating Netflix in Sub Count By… Hiking its Prices!
Despite having only launched in late 2018, earlier this week figures were posted online confirming that the Disney+ streaming service had officially beaten Netflix’s subscriber count. In other words, Disney was now the new king (or queen if you prefer) of the streaming wars with more of us now being…
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Disney Overtakes Netflix As the New Top Dog of the Streaming Wars
Following its launch back in November 2019, Disney’s streaming platform has undoubtedly proven to be exceptionally popular with consumers. – I think, however, that it would’ve been fair to say at the time that while it might’ve eventually offered something of a near parity to Netflix in terms of subscribers,…
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EA Games May Be Up for Sale – Why This Crazy Rumour MIGHT Be True!
I think it would be fair to say that EA doesn’t have the best reputation within the gaming community. In fact, depending on what day of the week it is, they’re probably fighting it out as one of the most loathed publishers along with Activision/Blizzard and Ubisoft. – At the…
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Club Penguin Fan Remake Shutdown with UK Police Currently Holding Website!
I never once visited the official Club Penguin website. And even if I wanted to at this point, I’d have a hard time considering that following their purchase of it in 2007, Disney shut it down in 2017 (with a largely unsuccessful attempt to move people onto a mobile version).…
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Disney+ Getting IMAX Enhanced Versions of 12 Marvel Movies This Month
Disney+ is about to get a new feature that will certainly put it ahead of any of its streaming rivals. Disney is getting ready to roll out heavily upgraded versions of 12 popular Marvel movies this month. The movies will be available in the larger IMAX format, meaning they’ll fill…
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Kingdom Hearts is (Finally) Heading to PC!
If there has been a request by gamers for one franchise to make a port to the PC, then undoubtedly one of the biggest of them (and admittedly there are a few) has to be ‘Kingdom Hearts‘. Despite many rumours of a supposed release, however, to date very little has…
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The Mandalorian Tops List of the Most Pirated Shows of 2020
In kicking this off with something I daresay many of you will consider some modern version of blasphemy, I have not yet got around to watching The Mandalorian. Not, incidentally, because I don’t want to, but when you consider that it’s only available on the Disney+ subscription service, well, let’s…
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Disney Launches ‘Magic Moments’ for Families in Self-Isolation
If you have kids, then the chances are that following concerns surround COVID-19, you’ve probably got them at home at the moment. As such, you’re probably either pulling your hair out or, at the very least, are running out of solid means of entertainment. Well, the good news is, Disney…
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Toy Story 3 is Painstaking Remade in Stop Motion – Video
There have been many times when I started a job that I wished I hadn’t. There are, however, limits to that statement. I wouldn’t, for example, even consider recreating an entire film using stop motion animation. Following a video posted on YouTube, however, that’s exactly what Morgan & Mason McGrew…
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Disney Confirm Lion King & Aladdin Game Remasters
Going back to the golden days of the 16-bit era, it’s hard to argue that Disney went through a spell of releasing some damn good games for the Sega Megadrive and Super Nintendo. Chief amongst these was undoubtedly both Aladdin and The Lion King which stand out as something of…
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Marvel Studios Unveils ‘Phase 4’ Film and TV Roadmap
Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feigi finally unveiled the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s phase 4 roadmap at SDCC 2019. He was of course, surrounded by most of the major cast members appearing in these projects. Unlike previous MCU ‘phase’ announcements however, the new slate includes television projects under the Disney+ streaming…
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Disney Confirms 8 New Marvel Films & Bob’s Burgers Release
Disney Film Line-Up Released With the release of Avenger’s Endgame, I daresay that many fans of Marvel and superhero franchises, in general, might have been a little concerned about what the future might have held. Following a press release from Disney, however, there is more than a little to get…
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Disney+ Streaming Service Heading to the Nintendo Switch
Stream Movies on the Go Good news for Nintendo Switch owners. It appears that Disney‘s recently announced Disney+ streaming service will be available on Nintendo’s handheld console. The news comes from a presentation slide showing the new streaming service’ availability on consoles. So it joins PlayStation 4 and Xbox One,…
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Disney+ Streaming Service Goes Live on November 12
Priced Aggressively Lower than Netflix People have been waiting with baited breath for Disney to finally announce the arrival of their Disney+ streaming platform. The media giant easily has the catalogue to fill it with their own content. Plus, they pretty much fund their own productions so original content is…
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