PC

In China, Diablo III Is Sold Online As, Um, "Big Pineapple"

Soon it will be summer. Time for summer fruit: watermelons, pineapples, and Diablo III?


May 28, 2012
In Real Life

This Car’s Trunk Is Open For Illegal Chinese Business

Street vendors in China are a common sight — even those peddling their wares from the back of their car. These vendors sell everything from small animals to counterfeit handbags — anything that can fit in an automobile trunk.


May 24, 2012
Xbox

Relax, The Xbox 360 Probably Isn’t Going To Be Banned

International Trade Commission judge David Shaw has recommended that the import and sale of Xbox 360 consoles in the US be halted immediately. Sounds drastic, I know, but maybe it’s not as bad as it sounds.


News

Too Human Is Worth, Oh, A Few Bucks, Says Judge

The great Silicon Knights-Epic Games slapfight is at last underway in a courtroom, but already a judge has suggested that even if the maker of Too Human wins, it could lose. He’s said that the damages up for grabs are $US1.


May 23, 2012
Xbox

This Man Wants To See The Xbox 360 Banned From Sale (And He Might Actually Succeed)

The Microsoft v Motorola court case that’s been bubbling away since 2010 seems to be heating up in all the wrong ways for the Xbox 360 manufacturer, with a judge involved recommending that the console’s US imports and sales be halted immediately.


May 21, 2012
In Real Life

They’re Just Trademarking The Hell Out Of Everything In Skyrim

If you’ve got any Dragonborn T-shirts, bumper stickers or other crap up on Cafe Press or Etsy, now might be the time to hold a clearance sale. ZeniMax Media just submitted a trademark application for that term, joining the recent filing it made for “Fus Ro Dah,” presumably for the same purposes.


May 20, 2012
PC

Furious 4 Trademark Snafu Is Not A Sign It’s Been Cancelled, Insists Gearbox

We haven’t heard much out of Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, a game announced a year ago at E3, one that is quite a departure from the tone of other games preceding it. That, coupled with the lapsed trademarks surrounding the game, sent out the rumour that the game was cancelled.


May 18, 2012
In Real Life

Japanese Game Developer Apparently Harassed So Much, She Attempted Suicide

In 2009, a twenty-something female joined Osaka-based game developer Capcom. The new employee was assigned to a couple different games, before becoming a member of the team developing Dragon’s Dogma, Capcom’s upcoming big budget title.


In Real Life

Teens Arrested For Stealing $400 Worth Of Pokemons

On May 11 at a Walmart in Massachusetts, staff apparently saw three men shoplift packs of Pokémon cards and exit the store.


May 12, 2012
News

Rant: There’s No Appealing To The Court Of Public Opinion

If the folks behind Kane & Lynch 2 should be sued, they should be sued for something other than the “vicious vilifying” of the Chinese people. And they should be sued for a lot more than $US1585 — that figure would represent no more than 27 copies of the title sold at full retail price here and I’m certain the actual victims of the game’s nausea-inducing shaky-cam and the nauseating characters depicted by it, number far more than that.