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The robotic butler sighed and started to tear open the box- and stopped when Nefarious started shrieking incomprehensibly at him in anger. “What is it?” Lawrence asked tiredly.

“You might ruin the the case!” Nefarious snapped.

“Oh. This is another one of your videogames?”

“Yeeeeesss, it is! So don’t damage it! I paid good bolts for that one too!”

Lawrence sighed again and proceeded to open it once more, this time more carefully. Soon enough, the packaging was cleanly removed, and the game case was free. Nefarious wasted no time and snatched the fragile plastic case out of his butler’s grasp. “AHAHAHAHAHA!! YEEESSS, I HAVE IT!!!! FINALLY!!!!” The maniacal mechanical mad scientist suddenly jerked and then froze in place, sparks flying from his green dome as the mini-satellite dish inside played an all too familiar program.

“Oh Lance, how could you?!?! This is the third time this week!”

“I’m so sorry Janice- I truly didn’t know that Pop Tart was yours!”

“Lance, I don’t- I don’t know if I love you anymore-”

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  Genndy Tartakovsky’s ‘Popeye’ Movie Afloat with King Features

  Animation icon Genndy Tartakovsky is teaming up with King Features to go back to the drawing...

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  COVID-19 Chronicles: CMG President Ed Noeltner on Surviving an Unpredictable Animated Movie Landscape

  Beverly Hills-based Cinema Management Group has played an important role in bringing internationally produced animated features...

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  Tiger Aspect Options ‘Knights and Bikes’ Game for Series

  U.K.-based Tiger Aspect Productions (Mr. Bean, Charlie and Lola, Aliens Love Underpants) has optioned the rights...

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  Hand-Painted Adventure ‘Knights and Bikes’ Charges to Aug. 27 Release

  Foam Sword and Double Fine Presents are bringing a vibrantly hand-painted game world to players this...

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  ‘TMNT’ Vets Kevin Munroe & Steve Lumley Producing ‘Action Mice’

  Toon Town veterans Kevin Munroe (TMNT, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Troll: The Tale of a...

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  Television

  Squeeze, WowWee Plan ‘Fingerlings’ Toy Toon

  Quebec-based animation company Squeeze (Cracked) has been chosen by innovative toy company WowWee to bring its...

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  Cartoons on the Bay 2017 Pulcinella Award Winners

  Annual Italian animation confab Cartoons on the Bay wrapped up over the weekend with the Pucinella...

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  People

  AEA Backs SAG-AFTRA Game Strike

  The Actors’ Equity Association announced Friday that it is united with SAG-AFTRA in its picketing of...

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  Daily News Bytes

  VIDEO: Happy Holidays from ‘Sing’ Illumination and Universal offer a festive (and funky) seasonal greeting in...

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  BAFTA Children’s Awards Nominees Announced

  The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced this year’s British Academy Children’s Awards...

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  Home Entertainment

  New Trailer for ‘Surf’s Up 2’ Enters the Ring

  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has debuted a brand-new trailer for Surf’s Up 2: Wavemania. The CG...

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  Daily News Bytes

  With Bilal Animated Fare Is Newly Abloom in Mideast Region Arab feature animation projects are few...

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  Playing to Win

  Rainmaker and Blockade hope animation smarts turn the PlayStation game series into a hit movie. Adapting...

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  Rainmaker Appoints Gregory Little SVP of Content

  Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment — the studio behind the first-ever CG animated TV series, ReBoot — has...

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  ‘Ratchet & Clank’ Writer Joins ‘Popeye’

  Sony Pictures Animation’s belabored CG Popeye project finally looks to be moving forward with the studio...

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  ‘Ratchet & Clank’ Trailer Debuts

  The first trailer for the animated feature adaptation of popular PlayStation videogame franchise Ratchet & Clank...

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  Focus Picks Up ‘Ratchet & Clank’

  Rainmaker Entertainment and production partners Blockade Ent. and CNHK Media announce that Focus Features has been...

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  Rainmaker Reveals ‘Ratchet & Clank’ Voice Cast

  Rainmaker Entertainment and production partner Blockade Entertainment, together with China’s CNHK Media, have revealed the impressive...

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  Festivals and Events

  Growth Spurt

  Canada’s deep talent pool, excellent infrastructure and generous tax incentives are fueling a new boom in...

• Performance Analysis: Spider-Man Kills It on PS4 Pro September 11, 2018 at 11:32 am

  With the miss-to-hit ratio being what it is for superhero games, Insomniac had its work cut out for it when it agreed to take on the latest open-world interpretation of Spider-Man. Thankfully, the gamble paid off, and Sony has racked up another exclusive hit.

• The 10 most technically impressive games of 2016 January 9, 2017 at 7:27 am

  Today, we want to call out the year’s most impressive games. Each of these titles have noteworthy technical accomplishments, but this isn’t a pixel count and frame rate competition. Instead, we want to tip our hats to the games that astonished us the most.

• Ratchet & Clank delivers gorgeous visuals, but only at 30fps April 19, 2016 at 11:30 am

  The series is getting a reboot – a retelling of the original Ratchet & Clank story in both theatrical and game form. The movie will be hitting theaters later this month, but the PS4 game is available right now. Does this reimagining do justice to the beloved franchise, or is it just an exploitation of our warm memories? Let’s take a look.