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Worlds.com Files Suit Against NCsoft – Every Other MMO Company To Follow?
90’s virtual world developers Worlds.com has fired the first shot in what could be a game company-spanning battle as they file suit against NCsoft for infringing on their patent for multiplayer virtual environments. The patent at question is 7,181,690, “System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space”, which was file in…
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Disturbing Art From Nintendo Powers Past
Agent B from The -Minus World discovered a stack of old Nintendo Power magazines recently, and for some god-awful reason decided to share with us the The Top 10 Most Disturbing Illustrations From Nintendo Power. B theorizes that Nintendo Power made the switch to graphics designers rather than illustrators because graphic designers are so plentiful,…
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Space War Commander Launches With New Year
Who said there would be no new games this week? Pish, and possibly posh. Independent PC developer Dreamspike has announced their real-time strategy title Space War Commander will launch on New Year’s Day. Actually Dreamspike calls Space War Commander a real-time real-strategy game, and then really doesn’t go into great detail explaining why. Apparently it…
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The Art Of War Vs. Dynasty Warriors
One of the Chris-es over at Hardcasual passes along this little bit of brilliance, which compares the teachings of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to the teachings of Koei’s Dynasty Warriors. So how does the Chinese history-delving hack and slash action series hold up in the face of Sun Tzu’s immensely influential book of…
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Call Of Duty: World At War $35 On Amazon
Those of you itching to spend some quality time early next year shooting other people in World War 2-era gear might want to hit up today’s Amazon.com Gold Box deal, featuring COD: World At War. Call of Duty: World at War seems to be one of those titles that retailers have been crazy about discounting…
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You Got KOS-MOS In My Tales Of Hearts
Recently released in Japan, Namco Bandai’s Tales of Hearts for the Nintendo DS features a slew of support-character cameos, including everyone’s favorite gnosis killing machine, KOS-MOS. Hearts features cameos from a wide variety of Namco Bandai’s characters from previous Tales games, but KOS-MOS here comes straight from the ill-fated Xenosaga series, which towards the end…
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Michael Phelps’ Game To Be The Next Tiger Woods Game
505 Games is creating a game based on Olympic swimmer extraodinaire Michael Phelps, but can swimming carry a video game? Probably not. That’s where the pure action comes in. Swimming is a the sort of sport that is extremely exciting…for swimmers. 505 Games realizes this, and while there will be a healthy dose of watersports…
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WSJ: Lower PS3 Holiday Sales Equal Fading Hope
An article in the Wall Street Journal today considers the state of Sony’s PlayStation 3 in the video game market, highlighting the fact that the console’s holiday sales had dropped considerably over last year’s. Citing NPD numbers as well as industry analysts, the article points out that November sales for the PS3 had dropped 19%…
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PS3 101: Ripping And Playing Music
Sony ushers in a whole new batch of PlayStation 3 owners this holiday season with a series of videos showing how to get the most out of your shiny new console. The first video went up Friday, showing owners how to create their own photo slideshow on the PlayStation 3, something I’ve never really futzed…
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Here’s What Pool Revolution Looks Like
Well we know from the previous post that Hudson has released Pool Revolution: Cue Sports for WiiWare today, and that it sports online multiplayer gameplay, but what does it look like? This, apparently. Pool games haven’t really had to change all that much since the PSOne days. There’s only so far you can go with…
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Weekly Wii Update: Maboshi, Pool, And More Star Tropics
It’s the last Wii Update of the year! Will Nintendo make it count, or end the year with a whimper? Let’s see what two new WiiWare and one new VC titles have to say. Representing the final two WiiWare titles of the year we have a Nintendo first-party WiiWare game called Maboshi’s Arcade (800 points),…
By Mike Fahey