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Nintendo Wii U launch games leaked

Michael Crider, May 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Nintendo's next-generation Wii U is garnering plenty of interest thanks to its non-standard form factor and controller, but any gamer knows that a console lived and dies by its titles. We've already seen a few titles leak through, but a purported Blockbuster inventory screen has revealed a list of no less than 25 new games. Among expected fare like Assassin's Creed III and a new Super Mario Brothers game are surprises like Tekken, Splinter Cell and Just Dance 4. Read The Full Story

Dish Network’s Blockbuster acquisition paid off

Mark Raby, Feb 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

In the most recent quarter, Dish Network managed to add 22,000 new subscribers, a feat it says was accomplished by its acquisition of fledgling retail chain Blockbuster. If you are still living in the 1990s, what you probably picture from reading that statement is a bunch of promotional standees in Blockbuster stores offering a special Dish Network subscription package. Nope, the brick-and-mortar section of Blockbuster is very much dead weight, but Dish's marketing of the company's online service seems to be working. Read The Full Story

Blockbuster On Demand coming to Samsung gadgets

Chris Davies, Feb 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

Samsung has inked a deal with Blockbuster to deliver on-demand streaming movie and TV shows to Samsung smart TVs, ultrabooks, smartphones and tablets later in 2012. The service will hit Samsung hardware in the US, UK and across Europe in the first half of this year, according to Smarthouse, while other regions, including Australia, will have to wait until the second half of 2012 before they see it. Samsung is apparently cooking up a global billing system for easy content purchase no matter which device they're using. Read The Full Story

TiVo loses support for Blockbuster On Demand

Shane McGlaun, Feb 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

We have some bad news for TiVo owners who enjoy streaming video from Blockbuster On Demand. Blockbuster has announced that it will stop supporting TiVo DVR's on March 31, 2012. You can read the official TiVo statement at the bottom of this post, but in a nutshell, Blockbuster claims it's updating its technology platform and won't be able to support TiVo in the future. Read The Full Story

Redbox gobbles up Blockbuster Express kiosks for $100 million

Shane McGlaun, Feb 7th 2012 Discuss [8]

It looks like the end is near for Blockbuster, the company is shutting down even more of its retail locations that aren't making money and now there will be even less Blockbuster exposure around the country. Redbox has agreed to purchase the Blockbuster Express kiosks that NCR operates around the country. NCR picked up those kiosks after Blockbuster filed bankruptcy. The purchase will land Redbox 10,000 more kiosk locations. Read The Full Story

Netflix video game rental idea is axed

Mark Raby, Jan 27th 2012 Discuss [17]

If you were waiting for the day when you could watch Family Guy on your iPad, pop Indiana Jones into your DVD player, and wait for the latest Call of Duty game to appear in your mailbox, all while only logging into one online account, your dreams have been quashed. Specifically, the Call of Duty part. Video streaming giant Netflix has dismissed its plans to add video game titles to its mail-order rental library. Read The Full Story

Warner Bros won’t let Netflix DVD renters add its flicks to their rental queue for 28 days

Shane McGlaun, Jan 27th 2012 Discuss [4]

Warner Brothers and some of the other major movie studios are making it really hard on people that rent movies via Netflix and other services. The moviemakers are trying to force users to go back to the old days of movie rentals where you went into a store to rent or just bought the movie. The world has moved on, but Hollywood refuses to see that for the most part. Read The Full Story

Dish Network to axe more Blockbuster retail stores

Shane McGlaun, Jan 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

When Dish Network purchased the ailing Blockbuster rental chain last year, it had planned to keep about 90% of the stores around the country open. That means that 10% of the stores fell under the knife straight away and were closed. Dish Network noted at CES that it was set to axe every one of the stores around the country not making money. Read The Full Story

Warner Brothers set to make Netflix, Blockbuster, and Redbox wait longer for movies

Shane McGlaun, Jan 6th 2012 Discuss [4]

If you are a fan of Netflix streaming or kiosks that are operated by Redbox and Blockbuster, Warner brothers is not going to make you happy with the latest announcement. Warner Bros is set to make us all wait longer to see the flicks it produces in an apparent effort to force more of us to purchase their flicks rather than rent. Read The Full Story

Columns

No Matter Who Owns Blockbuster, It’s a Joke

Don Reisinger, Sep 25th 2011 Discuss [30]

Like many others, I’ve been extremely critical of Blockbuster over the years. I’ve felt that the company has failed to see the changing times, and has generally lost all sense of what consumers are after.

So, when Dish acquired Blockbuster earlier this year, I thought it might be a good thing for the formerly dominant rental firm. I thought that Dish could find a way to revive Blockbuster’s ailing business model, and return it to a place where it would no longer be viewed as a joke.

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Blockbuster Movie Pass taking a jab at Netflix on October 1

Rue Liu, Sep 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

Dish Network and Blockbuster announced a new service called Blockbuster Movie Pass that offers internet movie and TV show streaming as well as DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and games by mail. The service will start October 1 and the announcement couldn't have come at a better time, taking aim at Netflix just days after the ill-received Qwikster spinoff. Read The Full Story

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SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – July 17, 2011

Rue Liu, Jul 17th 2011 Discuss [8]

It was a disappointing week for Apple fans eager to pick up a new MacBook Air and OS X Lion, as both were no-shows with a launch looking to be next Thursday or Friday instead. The much anticipated Spotify music streaming service did open its doors to the US finally, although by invite-only. Google had an excellent earnings call and Microsoft revealed upcoming some Windows Phone Mango handsets. Continue after the cut for the roundup video and links.