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Disney Infinity shots have been released showing off the Pirates of the Caribbean playset. A look at the the figurines is also below, each showing off a cartoonish version of Jack Sparrow. The Gobo developed playset comes with ready-made adventures and the assets can be used to create your own adventures in Toy Box mode. Disney Infinity is due in August on 3DS, PS3, Wii, Wii U and Xbox 360. A trailer for it can be watched here.

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Disney has announced a May 10 release date for LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean. The game has been scheduled to release alongside or close to the debut of the film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides which releases on May 20. Nothing like springing a date on us faster than Barbosa can stab you in the back there, Disney. The game will be released on just about every platform available. A demo is out now on XBL.

Just a friendly reminder that Castlevania: Harmony of Despair and its DLC are half-off from now until May 9 on Xbox Live. There’s also a LEGO: Pirates of the Caribbean demo available as well.

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It’s a chest with Davy Jones’ heart in it, not the actual chest of a dead man which contains internal organs and such. Well, maybe kind of. Anyway, there’s a video and some screenshots below for Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, which focuses on the third installment of the movie series: Dead Man’s Chest. The game, which covers all four movies in the series, is slated for release alongside On Stranger Tides in May for DS, PC, PSP, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.

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Disney has canceled production of its action-RPG Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned amid lay-offs at Propaganda Studios.

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Disney will have loads of games on hand at E3 this week. Some you will want to play, some you will want for your kids.

We have broken it down for you here:

• Split/Second – Early 2010 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned – Fall 2010 (PC, unannounced consoles)
• Toy Story Mania! – Fall 2009 (Wii)
• Spectrobes: Origins – Fall 2009 (Wii)
• Disney Sing It: Pop Hits – Fall 2009 (PS3, Wii) (PS2 available in Europe only)
• Club Penguin and Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force – Out Now (DS, PC, Mac)
• KINGDOM HEARTS 358/2 Days – Fall 2009 (DS)
• G-Force – July 21 (DS, PC, PSP, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360)
• The Princess & The Frog – November 2009 (DS, Wii)
• Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure – Fall 2009 (DS)
• Disney’s A Christmas Carol – November 3 (DS)
• Cars Race-O-Rama – October 2009 (DS, PSP, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360)
• Hannah Montana: Rock Out The Show – August 4 (PSP)
• JONAS – Fall 2009 (DS)
• Wizards of Waverly Place – August 25 (DS)

Mobile games and full details on each title are after the break.
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Speaking at DICE in Las Vegas, Gore Verbinski has urged developers to push the boundaries of innovation and asked why companies insist on “making another Halo” when there are “so many other places to go.”

“This is the time for madness,” he said in his conference keynote. “This is the time to go down dark alleys.”

Verbinski is best known for directing the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

“As you have success, the business model gathers data and focuses on those successes,” he said. “An empty canvas is a dangerous investment, but once a few dots are connected, the business model can and must connect to those early successes and follow them in an otherwise unguided terrain. Success creates followers. That landscape narrows, and we start to migrate along those paths at the expense of our explorer instinct.”

The director has a point. He warned the games industry off the film business model, in which creativity has collapsed under the weight of numbers.

Verbinski pointed to the film industry’s creative collapse, as the greenlight process became less and less instinct and more and more a numbers game.

“I think we can all agree that film narrative has become stifled and derivative as language is borrowed over and over,” he said.

DICE runs till Friday. Full article here.