Videogame Companies Agree to Ban Sex Offenders

Videogame Companies Agree to Ban Sex Offenders

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 06 Apr

Okay this is why I both love and despise the sex offender’s register. Love it because it lets me know if there is a rapist in my area, and despise it because it’s starting to get to where I am questioning its legality. In an effort to further mitigate online predators and people who take [...]

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Modern Warfare 3 Exploited by Hackers

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Console News On: 24 Mar

I definitely saw this coming. Infinity Ward fought tooth and nail to keep Modern Warfare 3 free of exploits and to allow for fair play, even going so far as to ask hackers how they do their thing, apparently. However, hackers have gotten a hold of their mods.

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Spry Fox file lawsuit against 6waves for copyright infringement and NDA violation

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 02 Feb

Remember my previous article on how Zynga rips off people’s games shamelessly? Well another company that does the same thing picked a fight with the wrong people. Spry Fox, upon hearing that Yeti Town was basically a clone of Triple Town, took action against 6waves.

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Zynga accused of ripping off Buffalo Studio’s Bingo Blitz

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 30 Jan

Zynga gets a lot of flack for their tactics, and a more common one is them making a complete knockoff of someone else’s game within months of its release. A few days back, the makers of Tiny Tower accused Zynga of ripping off their game, making their own version called Dream Heights. Buffalo Studios was [...]

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Ubisoft replies to yet another DRM controversy

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 17 Jan

You can’t seem to write anything about Ubisoft that’s news-worthy without it being about their DRM some days. Ubisoft’s release Anno 2070, which if I remember the series correctly is a game built heavily around trading and economics. The game’s DRM limits you to three activations, and as you would expect, torches and pitchforks saw [...]

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Namco-Bandai decide to be bullies, force GOG.com to price Witcher 2 by region

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 23 Dec

GOG.com is awesome for the following reasons: Classic games at a price that is practically stealing, compatibility with modern OSs, one worldwide price, no DRM. They also sold The Witcher 2 under these policies but Namco-Bandai have a problem with that.

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Battlefield Play4Free users ripped off, premium items removed because of “imbalance”

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News, PC On: 22 Dec

Recently, Easy Studios added an update to BFP4F which let players customize their weapons and buy upgrades. Among these were Legacy weapon attachments, which many users paid money for. The Legacy upgrades however brought with them balance issues, which are the leading cause of drama on forums in games most of the time. In an [...]

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Viacom claims copyright on videos they don’t own

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 14 Dec

First, a 101 on property, Viacom owns Spike TV and the abomination we called the VGA which was ruthlessly panned by gamers before, during, and after it because of nobodies polluting the stage instead of people we care about. In most cases when you embarrass an entire industry, you take a cab to Mexico until [...]

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Indie Devs furious at XBox Marketplace burying them

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Console News, Gaming News, Xbox 360 On: 08 Dec

Update: According to Chris, they’ve been less-buried, but apparently “Indie” is still a genre where all games are the same. Indie developers, who are responsible for great games like Terraria, VVVVVV, Minecraft, Spelunkey, La Mulana, Koumajou Densetsu, and who also get a lot of love from the internet’s many users are an important part of [...]

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EA bans user who gets sworn at. Punishing the victim much?

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 05 Dec

Moderators and admins, whether for forums or online game, often have a reputation for being immature tyrants with thought processes similar to the common roach, and stories like this reinforce that stereotype. Even though Battlefield is an M-rated game with mountains of violence and profanity, EA’s had the clever idea to employ a complete idiot [...]

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EA being sued over broken BF1943 promise

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 19 Nov

EA announced a while ago those who picked up Battlefield 3 for the PS3 would get a free copy of Battlefield 1943. They were nothing but lying bastards. Not only was it pulled at the last minute, even after some had already picked the game up expecting the free game, but it was only announced [...]

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Generous Redditor gives a Jurassic Park-themed Jeep to Telltale Games. Gets it back damaged.

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: Gaming News On: 14 Nov

No good deed goes unpunished. Redditor Boomerjinks was contacted in the summer by a rep from Telltale Games. They told him they wished to borrow the jeep to use at a promotional booth at PAX. Who honestly doesn’t like Jurassic Park? In addition, an acquaintance of his was able to rack up some dollars for [...]

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