Robert Ottone

Just over a week after BioWare announced that “Star Wars: The Old Republic” was going free-to-play, BioWare Austin, lead developers on the high-profile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), have lost their General Manager, Dr. Greg Zeschuk. Zeschuk is one-half of the founding members of BioWare (along with Dr. Ray Muzyka), a company that specializes in immersive storytelling with their “Mass Effect” and “Dragon Age” franchises.

Less than a month after Sylvester Stallone’s son Sage was found dead of an apparent drug overdose, his sister Toni Ann Filiti has been hospitalized, according to the New York Post. Filiti, half-sister to both Sylvester and Frank Stallone, entered UCLA hospital in critical condition, suffering from lung cancer.

Impossible Studios, owned by Epic Games, is ready for business, Kotaku reports. The new company, located in Hunt Valley, Md., will be home to the team working on "Infinity Blade: Dungeons" under the direction of studio head Sean Dunn.

With rumors circulating that Ben Affleck is in talks to handle Warner Brothers’ “Justice League” property (featuring DC superheroes Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and others), the news of Joss Whedon signing for “Avengers 2” surprises few.

The television landscape is about the change. TLC is debuting its latest horror show, “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” to the general public tonight at ten p.m.

Lolo Jones, who had been performing well at the 2012 London Olympics, finished fourth in the women’s 100-meter hurdles. According to MSN, during her appearance on “Today,” the young star chalked up her failure to the criticism she suffered at the hands of the U. S. media. Jones, a virgin, has also been harassed on Twitter, where she’s an active user.

It’s been 15 years since The Monkees have gone on tour. According to Rolling Stone, the band is set to begin playing again, with surviving members Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork. The tour will start in California and end in New York, at the Beacon Theatre.

Jennifer Lawrence, star of “The Hunger Games” is set to earn $10 million for the sequel, entitled “Catching Fire”, according to MSN. “The Hunger Games” grossed over $680 million worldwide at the box office when it released back in March, and a sequel was greenlit immediately, as there are further entries in the young adult book series.

According to On The Red Carpet, Joan Rivers staged an impromptu publicity stunt to drum up sales for her new book. The 79-year-old co-host of E!’s Fashion Police was asked to leave a Burbank Costco after using a megaphone to protest the store for banning her book. Rivers’ latest book “I Hate Everything … Starting With Me” was released on June 5 and has received positive reviews.

According to Vulture, author/screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis will not be tackling the adaptation of “Fifty Shades Of Grey” for Universal Pictures. The author, best-known for his controversial 1991 novel “American Psycho” has been lobbying hard for the adapting gig, while his most recent film “The Canyons” shoots with Lindsay Lohan in the lead.

Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, an image of Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln has emerged. The film (aptly titled “Lincoln”) is being directed by Steven Spielberg with a script courtesy of Tony Kushner (“Munich,” “Angels In America”). The method actor was last seen in the box-office disaster “Nine,” a musical adaptation of Fellini’s “8 1/2”.

Marvin Hamlisch, best known for his scores to “The Sting” and “The Way We Were” (for which he won Academy Awards), has passed away at the age of 68, according to USA Today.

“DayZ,” the popular “Arma 2” mod will be getting its own standalone game, according to Rocket’s Development Blog. The mod sees players squaring off against the undead in the super-realistic world of “Arma 2,” where a single bullet can be the difference between life and death. The initial game, “Arma,” is heavily rooted in the reality of gunplay, something most first-person shooters aren’t known for. One bullet can kill, and in the case with “DayZ,” zombies are introduced into the mix to make ...

“Insane,” Guillermo Del Toro’s first foray into video game development, has been canceled at troubled publisher THQ, according to The Escapist. This news comes less than a month after new THQ head Jason Rubin stated in an interview with Game Informer that Del Toro’s title was “still under production.”

Elton John has declared Madonna’s career “over.”In an interview with Australia’s “Sunday Night” television program, John insulted the pop star, referring to her as a “c---“ and a “fairground stripper.”

Microsoft, which has long refused to confirm the advent of a next-generation Xbox console, has finally confirmed new hardware in development, rumored to be codenamed "Durango."

Files within Valve’s new Source Filmmaker program hide a not-so-well-kept secret, according to EuroGamer.

Oscar winner Natalie Portman has married Benjamin Millepied in the coastal California town of Big Sur, reports E! Online.

According to MSN, a teacher in Scotland used a terrible excuse to get out of going to work. After using some smaller, sillier lies to get out of work, Derek McGlone said he ran over a small girl. This all occurred in the town of Shotts, where McGlone is a high school music teacher.

Paramount Pictures’ incredibly successful “Paranormal Activity” franchise continues its domination of Halloween-time scares with “Paranormal Activity 4,” the trailer for which can be seen here. The latest news regarding the film entails Facebook and Paramount’s joint venture in “Demanding” the film be released in select cities early (via Facebook).

The film adaptation of the popular “World of Warcraft,” a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is still going to happen, according to Kotaku. The popular gaming franchise is a medieval/fantasy title created by Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of Activision.

Misty May-Treanor, one half of the U.S. Olympic beach volleyball team, has many accolades to her credit. The recipient of gold medals at both the Athens and Beijing Olympics, as well as countless AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) volleyball awards for Best Defensive Player, as well as Best Offensive Player (not to mention Most Valuable Player), May-Treanor is currently seeking more Olympic gold in London with her partner, Kerri Walsh-Jennings.

With ?The Dark Knight Rises? raking in the dough at the box office, DC and Warner Brothers seem hot to continue the adventures of Batman, post-Christopher Nolan.

Sight & Sound magazine has released a list of the ?50 Greatest Films of All-Time? (via ABCNews), and they?ve named Alfred Hitchcock?s masterpiece ?Vertigo? as the best.

Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the University of Southern California have teamed up to develop a think tank in order to find bipartisan solutions to environmental problems, economic policies, political reform and other issues that affect the general public, according to the Los Angeles Times.

According to Kotaku, ?Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" content season will be coming to a close in September. This paves the way for the release of ?Call of Duty: Black Ops 2,? due for release on Nov. 13.

Video game developers are hailing the Oculus Rift, a hardware attempt at making 3-D and virtual reality gaming accessible and functional for the consumer.

Australian Clive Palmer is looking to use DNA and cloning as a way to make the science fiction of ?Jurassic Park? a reality, according to Sunshine Coast Daily.

When Facebook first launched its new Timeline feature, allowing users to migrate from the traditional Facebook layout to a more dynamic view of their lives via the social networking site, there was a bit of outrage and confusion. Now, according to Techcrunch, Facebook will be forcing those who have yet to adopt the new layout to accept the Timeline, as the original Facebook layout is being eliminated.