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When discussing modern action figures, there’s arguably no era more influential than the seventies. It was this decade that ushered in the modern era of licensed action figures based on movies and television, and no company represents that shift better than Mego. In the sixties, Mego was a manufacturer of “rack toys,” an industry term…

An Xbox game disc now carries a digital copy with it, and the copy goes wherever the disc goes. Microsoft opened disc-to-digital licensing to all Xbox players on September 29, letting owners of eligible Xbox One and Xbox Series X discs claim a digital license and play without the disc in the drive. Sell or…

Toei Animation, the studio that produces the Dragon Ball anime, has said that neither it nor the other Japanese rights holders have licensed a Dragon Ball Z theme park in France and that they were not even aware of such a plan.

Many Xbox owners could not play on Monday. After engineers cleared the problem, the division’s chief technology officer explained what broke. Scott Van Vliet said an external licensing service that Xbox and several partners rely on began failing late Sunday night, and the fallout spread from there.