Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Today's News

A spectacular new video on 1UP, it's kind of like Zero Punctuation crossed with those UPS whiteboard commercials. This week's topic: sex in games.

EA and DICE are fighting back over Mirror's Edge trademark issues. This whole thing is kind of dumb. Tim Langdell is the trademark equivalent of a cyber-squatter, suing or threatening to sue anyone who has used the word "Edge" in a title for over a decade. Unfortunately, he made the mistake of threatening EA about Mirror's Edge, that unplayable (but oh so original!) parkour game from last year, requesting they change the name. This is about as intelligent as throwing rocks at a hornets nest or flying planes into skyscrapers. Now the beast has awakened and is trying to negate Langdell's trademarks. I'm in the weird position of wishing EA luck in its lawsuit. Go lesser of two evils, woo!

An admonishment for World of Warcraft's superfluous quest descriptions. Pretty basic stuff, but at least someone else notices the problem.

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