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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Earlier this year we heard about the Angry Birds board game from Matell. Then we had a chance to see the game in action at CES. Now we’ve noticed that it’s for sale over on Amazon for $US20. And there are PICTURES!
Well, how else could it work? Mattel explains the straightforward board game port of Rovio’s iPhone hit Angry Birds, which is a simple pig smashing game. Angry Birds: Knock On Wood is coming soon, but playable at CES right now.
Publisher THQ just got the rights to make video games based on a whole range of Mattel toy properties. Think Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher Price, and, most promising, Masters of the Universe.
Word from Scrabble makers Mattel is that proper nouns will be fair game for Scrabble players in a few months’ time. UPDATE: Not so fast concerning this “rule change”.
Alex Galloway has put together a lovely digital adaptation of a chess-like game created by French Marxist Guy Debord dubbed Kriegspiel; now the estate of Debord is sending cease and desist letters to Galloway, claiming the digital version is infringing on the intellectual property rights of Debord. Reminiscent of the problem faced by the Scrabulous creators, Galloway is insisting that the idea of a game and rules are not subject to copyright. Ian Bogost weighs in:
