Chinese online game company ZQGame has partnered with Los Angeles-based SEE Games to create, co-invest in, and publish an original MMO (massively multiplayer online) game based on Sony Pictures Entertainment’s 2012 summer event film, Total Recall (2012), starring Colin Farrell. The deal represents the first time a Hollywood entity has partnered with a game company from China to develop an online game in-full.

Pre-orders of Apple’s iPhone 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.

LOS ANGELES -- 3D entertainment is a clear-cut economic success story generating enormous international excitement, agreed a cross-section of speakers at the fourth annual 3D Entertainment Summit. Co-located this year with the 3D Gaming Summit: 3D Gaming & Beyond and the LA Mobile Entertainment Summit, keynote and featured speakers at the three conferences included Co-Chairmen James Cameron and Vince Pace, CAMERON | PACE Group; Tom Rothman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fox Filmed Entertainment; Bryan Burns, Vice President Strategic Business Planning and Development, ESPN; Michael V. Lewis, Chairman/CEO & Co-Founder, RealD; Mick Hocking, VP, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios; Roy Taylor, EVP/GM, MasterImage 3D and, at Thursday's 3D Gaming Summit, Vince Zampella (Call of Duty), General Manager, Respawn Entertainment and David Maisel, former Chairman, Marvel Studios and currently Strategic Advisor to Rovio Mobile (creator of Angry Birds).

Rovio is officially going Hollywood. The game developer from Helsinki has big plans for its Angry Birds franchise. The latest move is the hiring of Andrew Stalbow as General Manager of North America. In his previous role as Senior Vice President of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment, Andrew was responsible for app publishing and video licensing for 20th Century Fox properties such as Glee, Avatar and The Simpsons, and worked with Rovio on the development of the Angry Birds Rio game, a unique integration between Angry Birds and the Fox film Rio. 

With Captain America: The First Avenger in movie theaters around the world today and Sega’s tie-in, Captain America: Super Soldier, available for all platforms; the synergy for Marvel Entertainment’s newest mainstream property is perfect. In fact, Captain America has taken over Comic-Con 2011 to fan boys' delight. But all signs are pointing to Captain America being the last Marvel movie that will be licensed out to an external company like Sega. The Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel in 2009 for $4 billion and now its game division, Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG), is heading up all video game projects.

LOS ANGELES – If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Activision is sticking with what works at E3 2011, focusing on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and its companion online service, Call of Duty Eliteat its booth. The game maker also has new Marvel video games for Spider-Man and X-Men fans, as well as Prototype 2 for core gamers. And for the kids, there’s Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures (video shown below).

NEW YORK – NCAA Football 12 cover athlete Mark Ingram was the guest of honor at the EA Sports NFL Draft party for the top rookies. The New York shindig was attended by ESPN's Erin Andrews and some of the top college football players, including Nick Fairley, Jake Locker, Von Miller, Patrick Peterson, and Muhammad Wilkerson. Electronic Arts vice president Tom Goedde talks about this year’s event and how the NFL lockout actually helped EA Sports in the college football arena in this exclusive video interview.

Sony Computer Entertainment America and Polyphony Digital, in collaboration with Nissan North America, announced the final 16 contestants moving on to the last round of GT Academy, ready to compete for the opportunity to become a part of a professional race team.  The 16 finalists emerged from a group of more than 53,000 registrants as the top racers from the National Finals Event held at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort on March 22-23.  They will now travel to the well-known Silverstone racing circuit in the United Kingdom to participate in a week-long boot camp in June.  The top driver will become the official GT Academy winner for the U.S. and will have the opportunity to train with elite race car drivers and compete as part of a professional Nissan racing team in an undisclosed race.

With Apple’s iPad 2 launch putting the focus on tablets, new data shows just how popular these devices are becoming with consumers. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker, 10.1 million media tablets were shipped in the fourth quarter of 2010 - more than double the 4.5 million shipped in the third quarter. Apple's share came down from 93% in Q3 2010 to 73% in Q4 2010, but still reflected Apple's strong leadership position with its iPad. Samsung's Galaxy Tab was the primary competitor in the holiday season, beating other players to market and capturing more than 17% share, while a number of smaller regional players also participated. New tablets running on Tegra 2 technology will flood the market place this year.

SAN FRANCISCO, California -- OnLive, a pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games, used GDC 2011 to launch a large Indie Game Sale to coincide with its sponsorship of the Independent Games Festival and presence at the Game Developers Conference. Supported by 11 different independent game publishers, the sale will offer OnLive members up to 80 percent off fun, original indie games such as Braid, Defense Grid Gold, World of Goo and The Maw, among others. OnLive is the official hardware platform sponsor of the Independent Games Festival and will be leading two presentations on cloud gaming at GDC.

BARCELONA, Spain (Hollywood Reporter) - The 2011 instellment of Mobile World Congress, which gathered 60,000 professionals from 200 countries, served as the official coming-out party for the next generation of Google Android smartphones and tablets.  

The Android booth featured a huge arcade section where developers from around the world showcased the next generation of mobile games. While graphics and gameplay have improved in the mobile space over the years, the new wave of smartphones and tablets will push the capabilities of these devices to the level of PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 -- and beyond even the best iPhone 4 and iPad games that are currently on the market.

UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT -- With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 heading to Blu-ray and DVD on April 15 from Warner Home Video and the final film heading to theaters this summer, Harry Potter fans can live the magic year-round in the new Universal Orlando Resort’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey is the main attraction in this new section of the Islands of Adventure park, where fans explore Hogwarts Academy on foot and then take off in a new ride. There are also a pair of rollercoasters – Dragon Challenge and Flight of the Hippogriff – and shops and a restaurant straight from the hit movies and J.K. Rowlings bestsellers. Thierry Coup, Senior Vice President of Universal Creative, talks about how video games – including the Harry Potter games from Electronic Arts – influence the wizards who build today’s modern theme park marvels like Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey in this exclusive interview.