Tag archive: Studios

Sierra Entertainment announced today that its award-winning first-person shooter First Encounter Assault Recon—a.k.a. F.E.A.R.—will ship for Sony's forthcoming PlayStation 3 console in November 2006. Developed by Monolith Productions along with Day 1 Studios, F.E.A.R. combines stylized first-person shooter mayhem and spine-tingling paranormal encounters and close-quarters action. Many screenshots from the coming PS3… Read More

In what has us even more pumped for the new Halo movie is today’s announcement that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will serve as the executive producers of the new Halo film based on the popularvideo game for the Microsoft Xbox. Peter Jackson is known for his Lord of the Rings trilogy and the upcoming King Kong movies. Jackson’s award-winning companies Weta Digital Ltd.and Weta Workshop Ltd. will provide creatures, miniatures and… Read More

In a posting on its Website, 321 Studios announced that it has “ceased business operations including, but not limited to, the sale, support and promotion of our products.” “Despite 321 Studios' best efforts to remain in business, injunctions entered against 321 Studios by three US Federal courts earlier this year has resulted in 321 Studios no longer being able to continue operating the busines” the statement… Read More

DVD software provider 321 Studios suffered another legal setback Wednesday when a New York judge granted a preliminary injunction barring the company from manufacturing, distributing, or otherwise trafficking in software that allows users to copy DVDs. U.S. District Judge Richard Owen, in case 1:03-cv-08970-RO, sided with Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox Film in ordering 321 Studios to stop distributing products that… Read More

St. Louis-based 321 Studios said it would appeal the ruling by Judge Susan Illston of U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Illston barred 321 from selling its DVD copying software within one week. As part of its appeal, 321 said it would seek to stay the ruling so it can continue selling its DVDXCOPY program. Read more on this story at Reuters.