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Disney and Electronic Arts sign 'Star Wars' video game deal
The Walt Disney Co. and Electronic Arts Inc. have inked a licensing deal that will see the video game developer make and publish new "Star Wars" games, the companies said Monday afternoon. Under the exclusive, multi-year agreement, Electronic Arts...
Tags: Entertainment, Gaming Industry, Electronics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, EA Tiburon
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Walt Disney Co. confirms layoffs at movie studio
Walt Disney Co. has confirmed that it is laying off staff at its movie studio, which several media outlets reported last week. The Los Angeles Times reported April 5 that the cuts were expected to affect the studio's marketing and home entertainment...
Tags: Entertainment, Photography Supplies and Services, Photography and Video, Career and Workplace, Services and Shopping
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Burb's Eye View: Steampunk and cutthroat card games
On Saturday, I was asked to check out a time-traveling phone booth that landed in Burbank. It was one of those invitations you don’t refuse. When I arrived, I was cordially ushered into the middle of an old-west gunfight. The local sheriff had just...
Tags: Entertainment, BBC
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Disney's LucasArts halts video game development
The Walt Disney Co.'s recently acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. subsidiary announced on Wednesday that its video game unit will no longer develop games. LucasArts, which was founded in 1982, is best known for a slew of "Star Wars" video games. Lucasfilm said in...
Tags: Entertainment, Gaming Industry, The Walt Disney Co., Lucasfilm Ltd.
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Rash of home, car burglaries reported in Burbank
A rash of home burglaries was reported in Burbank over the weekend, with computers and video game equipment being the hottest targets, police said. In four of the seven home burglaries reported between Friday and Sunday, computers and video game...Tags: Apple iPod, Entertainment, Google+, PlayStation, Wii
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Disney video games unit lays off about 50 workers
Walt Disney Co.'s video game division laid off about 50 staffers Tuesday from several locations on the same day that it closed the Austin, Texas, studio that produced its "Epic Mickey" titles. The layoffs were separate from the people who lost their...
Tags: Entertainment, Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Times, Ben Fritz, Unemployment
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Disney unveils plans to revive its video game business
Long stuck in low gear, Walt Disney Co.’s video game division is aiming for infinity. The entertainment conglomerate on Tuesday unveiled plans for a high-stakes initiative called Disney Infinity that could determine the success or failure of its...
Tags: Entertainment, Gaming Industry, Los Angeles Times, Ben Fritz, The Walt Disney Co.
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Pair arrested on suspicion of grand theft, auto, resisting arrest in Burbank
Two Burbank men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of grand theft auto before the alleged victim knew his Honda Accord had been stolen, police said Friday. Police stopped the pair – Alexander Radey, 20, and Marcelo Mena, 19 – at Cypress...Tags: Entertainment, Google+, Police Arrests, Theft
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Rich Moore's 'Wreck-It Ralph' is an homage to blocky video games
When animation director Rich Moore was growing up in Oxnard, he spent so much time in video arcades that his parents worried that their young son was wasting his time. “They would always tell me that I should be concentrating on the real world,&...
Tags: Entertainment, Wall-E (movie), Andrew Stanton, Pixar Animation, Matt Groening
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Disney to cut 200 jobs
Roughly 200 positions are expected to be eliminated by the Walt Disney Co., most to be absorbed by the company’s Burbank headquarters, in a round of layoffs next week, according to a company source. Some of the positions to be eliminated currently...Tags: Entertainment, North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Sunland, Tickets, Netflix Inc.
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DC moves westward
The Green Lantern is coming, but the news crews are leaving. Warner Bros. Studios will bring workers with subsidiary DC Entertainment from New York to Burbank over the next 16 months. DC Entertainment is the movie and game arm of DC Comics, publisher...Tags: Entertainment, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Television, Health, NBCUniversal
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Police report
The following were taken from reports filed with the Burbank Police Department. Area 1 Intersection of Magnolia Boulevard and South Front Street At 10:35 a.m. on Oct. 15, two employees of a lumber company became involved in a verbal argument, during...Tags: Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Burbank (Los Angeles, California)
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