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Stakes claim to “It’s on like Donkey Kong.”
Nintendo has filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for ownership of the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong.”
According to CNN, the publisher is looking to snag the trademark in the run up to the release of Donkey Kong Country Returns next month.
For those not well versed in such street jive, the Urban Dictionary tells us that the phrase was first popularised by Ice Cube in his 1992 Predator album and means: ‘it’s time to throw down or compete at a high level.’
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Won’t make “douche bags” celebrities.
Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has warned anyone thinking of exploiting glitches in the game that they will be taking a zero tolerance approach to cheating.
Multiplayer director David Vonderhaar posted on the official Call of Duty forums, “We are disinterested in making mini-celebrities out of douche-bags.
“You better think twice before you glitch. You never know who in your game doesn’t like glitchers who reports you and saves the game in their File Share and tells us about it.”
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Has someone been telling Febs?
Don’t believe the 11th February 2011 date given to Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood on PC. That ShopTo telly advert hasn’t been finalised yet.
From the Ubisoft mouth, Eurogamer heard: “We have not announced a release date for the PC version and this video has not been approved by Ubisoft.”
Even ShopTo admitted the error, telling Eurogamer the video was a pilot and any date mentioned would need checking with Ubisoft.
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Staff cuts at the UK developer due to cancelled project.UK developer Monumental Games has confirmed that there have been a number of job losses at the company following the cancellation of an unnamed project.
A statement from the company said: “Due to an unexpected project cancellation Monumental has been forced to restructure its business which has resulted in a number of job losses.” The number of cuts has not been disclosed.
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MS only “scratching the surface” – Kudo.
It may only have been on sale here for a few hours, but Microsoft has already promised to support Kinect with a raft of new abilities in the future.
Chatting to Eurogamer at last night’s launch bash, chief Kinect cheerleader Kudo Tsunoda revealed that the motion-sensing add-on would develop over time and cited the company’s online service as a model.
“We look at it a lot like we do with Xbox Live in general,” he said. “Xbox Live is a much different service today that when it first launched through continually updating it with new features and new experiences for people.
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New studio to develop mobile and online games rather than big-budget titles.In an interview with Canadian newspaper LaPresseAffaires, Martin Carrier, head of Warner Bros. Montreal, has outlined a new direction for the studio.
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“We don’t want to raise stock DLC price.”
Extra costs have been introduced for Rock Band 3 downloadable tracks. If you want old songs to support the new keyboard instrument or the vocal harmonies you must buy an “RB3 Version” of it. Similarly, if you want the Pro Guitar and Pro Bass parts in the song you will need to pay more.
Why?
“Rock Band 3 downloadable content is all about options,” Harmonix project director Daniel Sussman explained to Eurogamer.
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Two million downloads in two weeks.
The demo of Criterion’s superb racing game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit was downloaded more than two million times within two weeks, EA’s shouted from the rooftops.
The mega publisher said it’s the fastest downloaded Need for Speed demo in history.
Other fun facts: more than 700,000 posts have been made to the Speed Wall, which is part of the game’s Autolog network feature. More than five million Autolog Recommendations were sent from friend-to-friend.
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Multiformat titles in production for release next year with new investment for games targeting a younger audience.UK broadcaster Channel 4 has announced new videogame commissions to be funded by its 2011 Education budget. The budget has been guaranteed to match that of this year’s, with an extra £1 million investment dedicated to content for 10-14 year olds.
Games announced for 2011 include online management-sim Footfall from indie developer Preloaded and Yes Chef!, a game designed to educate users on healthy eating.
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Plus: £32 for WWE SmackDown on PSP.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood – the one what did multiplayer – arrives next week, and Ubisoft is banging its drums by discounting AC2 downloadable content.
Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities have been squashed to £2 apiece, and the Secret Locations-plus-Bonfire of the Vanities double-pack costs just over three quid.
New games on the European PlayStation Store this week are Crescent Pale Mist and side-scrolling shmup bundle Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype & The Last Chapter, according to the European PlayStation blog.