Platinum Games is planning to develop and self-published a new IP (intellectual property) alongside “Bayonetta 3.” This is according to the studio's head of development and producer Atsushi Inaba who said that they are interested in doing and self-publishing their own title. “One of the things Platinum is
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Anne Frank's “The Diary of a Young Girl” was turned down by English-language publishers, but saved from the rejection pile by an editor with Doubleday, where the book was published in in 1952 — and became not only a bestseller, but also one of the most enduring documents of the 20th century.
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Ten media organizations Wednesday called on the New York Court of Appeals to reject Lindsay Lohan's and Karen Gravano's appeal in the Grand Theft Auto V lawsuit against publisher Take-Two Interactive, warning a loss could erode First Amendment rights.
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Christmas comes early every year for the BEACON staff when our publisher, Kevin, returns from the annual North American Mature Publishers Association (NAMPA) convention. This year's convention took place in Oak Brook, Illinois just outside of Chicago. Aside from seeing the sights with other senior
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One way Gameflip stands out from other gaming ICOs is with its focus on game publishers. Gameflip has reserved 40 percent of the total supply of FLIPs to incentivize publishers by allowing them to sell these FLIPs to their community and keep up to 100 percent of the proceeds. Gamers will also be
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The Nintendo Wii is the best selling video game console of all time. But the Nintendo Switch, so far at least, is on an even faster sales pace. On Thursday, Nintendo announced that the Switch had become the fastest selling home video game system of all time in the U.S., selling over 4.8 million units in 10
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Spotify has been embroiled in a number of battles with music publishers and musicians as of late, and the new influence of shareholders could make the company even more intransigent than it already has been. Artists have long vilified Spotify's compensation arrangement, arguing that its per-stream
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