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Players able to name their price for pack of five independently developed games featuring Braid, Osmos, Machinarium; proceeds go to Child’s Play, Electronic Freedom Foundation, developers.
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Zampella and Ward not missed.
Modern Warfare studio Infinity Ward is still bursting with talent, owner Activision has claimed, despite the spate of high profile departures earlier this year.
Speaking in an interview with IndustryGamers, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg threw his weight behind the troubled studio.
“I will say that the Infinity Ward that I’m meeting with today is one of the most talented developers in the world,” he claimed.
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New weapons, enemies due next week.
The first in a series of free DLC packs for hit iOS slash ’em up Infinity Blade has just been revealed.
According to Joystiq, an update due next week will add five new weapons, five new shields, five helmets and an armour set. The level cap will go up to 45 and there will be a new enemy to face off against: the Marrow Fiend, pictured below.
And there’s much more planned for further down the line. “There will be new areas to go to, the story will be evolving a little more as you see what the God King is really up to, and we’re going to let people go down into the dungeons,” Donald Mustard, creative director of developer Chair Entertainment, explained.
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Zuffa claims use of term “ultimate fighting” on Fighters Uncaged packaging violates trademark.
A month after it released Fighters Uncaged for the Xbox 360’s Kinect motion-sensing system, Ubisoft has a legal tussle on its hands. Last week, Ultimate Fighting Championship parent company Zuffa LLC filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Nevada against the French publisher’s US arm, based in California.
According to the suit, Zuffa is taking issue with Fighters Uncaged’s packaging, which bears the term “ULTIMATE FIGHTING” in all capital letters on its back cover–a term that the company has trademarked. “[The] defendant’s use of the ULTIMATE FIGHTING name and mark is identical or confusingly similar to the use of the UFC® marks, including the ULTIMATE FIGHTING® name and mark on Zuffa’s licensed video games.” THQ publishes the official UFC games and recently signed an exclusivity deal through 2018 with the company.
The suit continues, “By using the words ULTIMATE FIGHTING® and setting them all apart in capital letters, [the] Defendant is creating or attempting to create an association between its product, ‘Fighters Uncaged’ and the UFC®. By using the ULTIMATE FIGHTING® name and mark on its video game, [the] Defendant is attempting to trade on the goodwill of the UFC®.”
Furthermore, Zuffa has taken umbrage to Fighters Uncaged’s setting, which is the world of illegal street fighting. In its complaint, Zuffa lays out its years-long effort to make mixed martial arts a respected sport. It points out that when the company took over the UFC brand in 2001, MMA was banned in most states, but it’s now sanctioned in 44 of the 50 states in the union.
Zuffa believes that it has suffered “monetary damages” and “irreparable injury to its business, reputation, and goodwill” as a result of Ubisoft’s use of the term “ultimate fighting” on Fighters Uncaged’s packaging. The company wants the publisher to be prevented from further using the term “ultimate fighting” and wants all packaging that uses the term to be destroyed. Zuffa is also seeking all profits Ubisoft may have made from the game, as well as attorney’s fees, exemplary damages, compensatory damages, and triple the normal damages for trademark violation.
As of press time, Ubisoft had not commented on the complaint. For more on Fighters Uncaged, read GameSpot’s full review of the game.
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Electronic Arts, Anchor Bay Entertainment, and Film Roman reteam for second animated film based on survival horror series.
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New producer gets stuck in.
A new patch for PC MMO Final Fantasy XIV is ready to go live, publisher Square Enix has announced.
According to the game’s official site, the update will be available for download tomorrow, bringing with it new monsters, an improved user interface and a number of other tweaks. Here’s the full list of what to expect:
This is the second major update for the beleaguered MMO in the last three weeks and the first since Naoki Yoshida took over the producer’s chair from Hiromichi Tanaka.
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Japanese publisher confirms production on at least one more project from Vanquish, Bayonetta studio, but mum on additional details.
In October, Sega and Platinum Games shipped Vanquish, a high-octane third-person shooter directed by Shinji Mikami that ostensibly brought to a close the four-game deal the two companies signed in 2008. The critically–if not always commercially–successful collaboration also saw the release of the highly regarded Bayonetta, as well as MadWorld and Infinite Space for Nintendo’s platforms.
Now, it appears as if Sega and Platinum Games have at least one more title up their sleeves. In a recent interview with GameStop-owned Game Informer magazine, Sega of America vice president of sales and marketing Alan Pritchard confirmed that his company will be extending its development contract with Platinum Games.
“We have a further title to announce from Platinum Games,” he said in this month’s issue of the magazine. Pritchard offered no other details on the project.
Platinum Games was formed in 2006 from the remains of Capcom’s shuttered Clover Studio, which created such highly regarded hits as Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and God Hand. Counted among the studio’s talent are Atsushi Inaba (producer of Viewtiful Joe), Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil creator), and Hideki Kamiya (director of Devil May Cry and Okami).
Sega has not yet revealed which of Platinum Games’ talent will be directing its latest collaboration. However, an unlikely selection would be Mikami. Fresh off his role leading Vanquish development, the Japanese creator has since unveiled his collaboration with Suda-51’s Grasshopper Manufacture, Shadows of the Damned. Further, Bethesda Softworks acquired Mikami’s development startup Tango Gameworks in October.
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XBLA shooter gets pre-release beta.
Frantic Xbox Live Arcade multiplayer shooter Monday Night Combat is getting a PC release next month, developer Uber Entertainment has confirmed.
The game will be available via Steam from 17th January, though if you pre-order it now for £8.99 you’ll get access to a beta version which goes live on thursday.
All the features from the Xbox Live Arcade features are coming over, including the recent Spunky Cola Arena DLC. Not only that, but editor support and new content are also promised post-release.
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Xbox Live Update: Downloadable content now available for motion-control, Star Wars, and racing titles; Prototype, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ravage Games on Demand hub.
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Xbox Live Update: Downloadable content now available for motion-control, Star Wars, and racing titles; Prototype, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ravage Games on Demand hub.
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