Gaming

Nintendo Wii motion-sensing hit with patent lawsuit. Again

November 13, 2008, 2:00 pm by Simon Munk Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: motion-sensing, Motiva, Nintendo Wii, patent infringement, WiiMote

Poor Nintendo. Hit with controversy over their attempt to keep access to their Wii Speak Channel only to owners of brand-new peripherals, they’ve also been slapped with yet another lawsuit over alleged patent infringements by the WiiMote and Wii motion-sensing control.

Don’t buy Wii Speak secondhand; Nintendo locking out channel

November 13, 2008, 12:00 pm by Simon Munk 1 comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Animal Crossing, controversy, Lets Go To The City, Nintendo Wii Speak, secondhand, videogames, wiispeak

We’re still trying to confirm whether this is also the case in the UK. But reports from the US are that Nintendo has effectively locked access to its Wii Speak Channel to purchasers of new Nintendo Wii Speak peripherals only, nobbling the secondhand market in the accessory.

Gears of War 2 gets “phwoar” factor; games marketing sinks to new low

November 13, 2008, 10:00 am by Simon Munk 1 comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: breasts, controversy, Gears of War 2, glamour model, Lucy Pinder, marketing idiocy, Microsoft Xbox 360, Page 3, The Daily Star, X360

According to “sources” quoted in The Daily Star as being close to Page 3 Stunna Lucy Pinder, the “Bournemouth babe, 24, is a real-life Xbox fan” who “regularly takes on internet players across the world in her favourite ’shoot-em-up’ games”. The Daily Star, strangely enough, also have a pic of Lucy (partially reproduced here) in some vaguely military-related scraps of cloth to further seal the connection between gigantic breasts and, well, some game with grunting blokes and loads of blood in. Is this really what Microsoft and/or The Daily Star consider clever marketing of games?

Guitar Hero Carabiner for (hard) rock climbers

November 12, 2008, 3:30 pm by James Holland Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: carabiner, Guitar hero, Toy

If you’re so addicted to Guitar Hero your fingers get twitchy every time you leave the house, we’ve found the perfect keyring-cum-safety device for you - the Guitar Hero Carabiner!

More fallout on Fallout 3, now censored in Japan

November 12, 2008, 2:00 pm by Simon Munk Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Bethesda, controversy, Fallout 3, Japan, videogames

It’s not going on sale in India, had advertising pulled from the Washington DC metro system and Internet, run into controversy over the decision to not allow you to kill kids in the game. And now, Bethesda’s post-apocalypse role-playing action game Fallout 3 has been censored before release in Japan.

Where do you play yours? PSP, DS, iPhone user survey says… at home

November 12, 2008, 12:00 pm by Simon Munk Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch, handheld consoles, Nintendo DS, NPD group, research, Sony PSP, survey, videogames

Research firm NPD Group has found, in a survey of usage by 3,200 handheld gamers in September, that most play their Sony PSP, Nintendo DS or Apple iPhone at home.

Question of the Day: Can an iPod ever really replace a games console?

November 12, 2008, 11:30 am by James Holland 3 comments

Filed under Gaming Tags: Apple, feature, Gaming, Greg Jozwiak, iPod, QOTD

Apple’s marketing head honcho Greg Jozwiak has been flapping his gums with some pretty hefty rhetoric about the iPod touch being the “future of gaming.” He’s even had a pop at Sony and Nintendo, not to mention laying into Nokia over N-Gage. But is he right? Will you ever ditch your console for an iPod?

Microsoft Xbox and Blizzard wield banhammer; over 350,000 hit

November 12, 2008, 10:00 am by Simon Munk Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: banhammer, Battle.net, Blizzard, Diablo, Microsoft Xbox 360, Starcraft, Warcraft, X360, Xbox Live

Microsoft and Blizzard have been warming up for the US holidays with a seasonal display of warmth to humanity – by banning hundreds of thousands of their users from Xbox Live and Battle.net.