What a breath of fresh air! No fancy pre-rendered trailers, no gruff American man giving a gruff American voice-over. Just a couple of French ladies selling a zombie video game using yoghurt and a cruise liner. More »
If someone was going to sue over an iPhone app called “Jew or Not Jew,” I would have expected it to be an infringement claim coming from Saturday Night Live, or Al Franken, the Minnesota senator who wrote a sketch by that name which aired in 1988 here in the U.S. Instead, it was an action brought under France’s anti-racism codes by groups offended by the quiz game, regardless of the fact a Jewish man coded it. More »
Boutique French publishing house Pix’n Love have you covered this Christmas, Sonic fans. They’re releasing a 300-page compendium celebrating the history of Sega’s little blue mascot. More »
As if we needed reminding of how big a commercial event the release of a new Call of Duty game is, word comes from France that a truck full of copies of the game has been hijacked by professional thieves. More »
The Paris’ Court of Appeals last week issued €4.8 million ($6.6 million) in fines against a half-dozen companies importing and selling devices that can be used on Nintendo platforms to play homebrew and pirated games, Electronic Theater reports. More »
Warning: the “game” I saw today wasn’t much of a game at all. All I saw was some concept art, all I heard were some basic outlines of gameplay and a very detailed description of the game’s universe. More »
