Slashdot: GamesNews for nerds, stuff that mattersNintendo Loses Controller Patent Lawsuit- July 23, 2008 kryogen1x alerts us to coverage at 1up indicating that Nintendo controller may soon become scarce — Nintendo lost in court to Anascape over analog sticks in their Wii and GameCube controllers.This isn't the first time the big manufacturers have been targeted in lawsuits involving features in their controllers. From the article: "The lawsuit concerns the analog sticks in the Classic Controller and GameCube controllers, which Texas-based Anascape Ltd. claims to hold a patent on that...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/343141329/article.pl July Independent Game Reviews From Game Tunnel- July 22, 2008 cyrus_zuo writes "Game Tunnel has published the July Independent Video Game round-up, the latest in their long-running Famitsu-styled panels that review all the latest Indie PC games. The 10 games reviewed this month include the physics-based puzzle game Obulis, the PuzzleQuest made even easier Puzzle Hero and the appropriately titled Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble."Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/342732945/article.pl NIA Brain-Computer Interface, Mind-Control Gaming- July 21, 2008 MojoKid writes "Sunnyvale-based manufacturer OCZ Technology has laid claim to being the first to bring a 'brain-computer' interface to the retail market and they have aimed it squarely at the gamer. The device is called the NIA, which is an acronym that stands for Neural Impulse Actuator. Instead of buttons, sticks, gyroscopes or motion sensors, it reads the body's natural bio-signals and translates them into commands that can be used to control PC games. This evaluation of the NIA shows the...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/341924919/article.pl Browser-Based "Quake Live" Trailer Released- July 21, 2008 RPS has a great trailer for the new browser-based Quake Live game currently in beta. While it might make the community contribution which has sanded the rough edges off of any of the installments to the franchise a little harder, another round of fragging that I can pick up from any browser could be hugely fun.Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/341849313/article.pl Talent Build Examples for Blizzard's New Death Knight- July 21, 2008 With Blizzard's Wrath of the Lich King NDA out of the way, there has been the inevitable flood of information about the new expansion hitting the streets. One of the most sought-after pieces of information is anything about the new class being introduced, the Death Knight. Massively has a great summary, with video examples, of the three different avenues available to the Death Knight. From the AE strengths of unholy, to the life-stealing blood tree, to the control of the frost tree, it seems...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/341776066/article.pl Did E3 Just Gasp Its Last Breath- July 20, 2008 Ian Lamont writes "This year's E3 is over, and there's already talk that this could be the last one. Even before the conference started, a slew of studios announced they wouldn't be taking part, citing high costs and other 'business reasons.' At the conference itself, 'there were no huge game announcements, and Microsoft didn't even bother having Bungie show up to talk about the next Halo release, claiming that the company wanted to "shorten the presentation."' Electronic Arts CEO John...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/340592871/article.pl Wii Is the New US Console Leader- July 19, 2008 stoolpigeon writes with this snippet from an AFP story carried by Google: "Nintendo said Thursday that its globally popular Wii has become the top-selling video game console in the United States, a crown coveted by rivals Microsoft and Sony. Market-tracking firm NPD Group reports that 666,000 Wii consoles were sold in the United States in June, raising the total sales count in the country to nearly 10.9 million units." I'd rather play board games than video games, but the Wii Fit makes one of...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/340131473/article.pl Ubisoft Steals 'No-CD Crack' To Fix Rainbow 6: Vegas 2- July 19, 2008 Ariastis writes "UbiSoft has long been against No-CD patches. Referring to them on their forums would get you warned or banned. But now, they have just officially released a patch for Rainbow 6: Vegas 2, which, when opened in a hex editor, can easily be identified as coming from the RELOADED scene group, not from UbiSoft programmers. A picture of hex analysis is shown in the story. See Piracy isn't that bad! It saves you from having to code fixes for your own games! (Watch the drama on the Ubi..http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/339741626/article.pl Knights of the Old Republic MMO Confirmed- July 18, 2008 Zafsk writes to tell us Gamespot is reporting that in a surprise move from E3 2008, EA's CEO John Riccitello announced that the long debated BioWare MMORPG is going to be a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic sequel of sorts. Currently the KOTOR MMO is slated for a 2009 release. "BioWare's first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game was released in 2003 for the original Xbox and PC, and was named the year's top RPG by GameSpot. An Obsidian Entertainment-developed sequel was released in.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/339348095/article.pl Wii Gets Custom Firmware, Purported PSP Emulator- July 18, 2008 Engadget is reporting that some recent unofficial Wii modding news has had a couple of interesting breakthroughs. First, it seems that a team has released what is being called the "first custom firmware for the Wii" that supposedly allows writable DVDs to be read in emulators. Second, the folks from TeamShift have shots of a "working" PSP emulator for the Wii. Unfortunately "working" only means between 4 and 8 frames per second, so still a long way from playable.Read more of this story at...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~3/339290752/article.pl |