Imagi International Holdings has shut down its animation studios in Hong Kong.  The studio obtained financing early last year that allowed it to release Astro Boy, and it was hoping to gear up on Gatchaman.

Comicon.com co-owner Rick Veitch announced the departure of Jen Contino, who’d been blogging at The Pulse for eight years.

Magic:  The Gathering:  Zendikar was the biggest release ever in the game’s seventeen year existence.