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"Force, Balance, Push" is Now Trademarked

"Fus Roh Dah", the shout from Skyrim that has become an Internet meme is now officially trademarked. Yes, the shout that sends things flying across rooms like a candy wrapper in a tornado, was gaining so much popularity, its creators had to lock down the ownership of the slogan.
Bethesda's parent company, Zenimax, went into the process of filing a number of trademark applications that are directly related to the saying. This includes things from merchandise to it's use in future games. When reached for comment about this, Bethesda claimed that they were protecting their brand [...]

The State of California Makes Gamestop Warn their Customers about Used Games' Online Fees

According to news from Joystiq, GameStop has settled a suit that requires the company to post signs in all of its California locations to warn their customers if certain used games have additional fees for online content. The company will also reimburse those "consumers who purchased qualifying used games" with a $10 check and a $5 coupon if they are a PowerUp Rewards members and a $5 check and a $10 coupon if they aren't.
Mark Pifko, attorney for the Baron-Budd law firm that headed this case, stated [...]

Nintendo is rumored of planning a 3DS redesign.

We reported earlier that Nintendo has dropped the price on their 3DS, but according to rumors surroundingNintendo, that's not the only thing the video game company plans to do for its newest portable gaming handheld.
According to information from the French technological website01Net, insiders at Nintendo said that their company is already working on a new 3DS model that will tone down what its previous model had and could be an entirely new rebranding as well. This possibly means that the recent price cut could have been a way for retailers like Walmart and [...]

Hey gamers! So with the end of summer approaching we cant blame you if you are trying to squeeze in as many hours of game time as possible. School can really get in the way of prestige mode and accordingly you are trying to game as hard as you can before the inevitable beginning of school. I personally have been playing Ocarina of Time again with the impending start of the new semester (its a yearly tradition of mine).

So, I can understand the sentiment of non-stop gaming before homework and studying starts to eat up more time than the [...]

More updates on the upcoming Modern Warfare 3 have been released and the news denotes a crisper gaming experience for everyone. The Call of Duty franchise seeks to put out the best possible product each time they release a new game and MW3 will be no different.

A group of Call of Duty glitchers are helping Infinity Ward sift through the new games multiplayer game play in order to resolve pending issues. MapMonkeys, as the community is called, has helped with past Call of Duty titles, and this time around they are spending even more time cleaning up the game [...]

Games - Homefront's Japanese version to be changed....slightly
According to this Kotaku article the Japanese publisher of Homefront explains that only a few noticeable changes will take place in their port of the game. While the oppressive North Korea dictator will still be present in the game (though his son will be the majority North Korean focus) and the North Korean flag andpropagandawill be untouched fully, the only big difference in the Japanese difference was theeditingof the opening movie that declares Kim Jong-il dead, as well as his "funeral procession" (which is actually footage of his father's funeral back in [...]

Games - Soul Calibur in the near future!
The designer of the Soul Calibur IV, Daishi Odashima,opened up a Twitter account on Christmas day and one of the first few tweets was to surprise his followers with a tweet saying "SC is back! Get ready, fans!". He then sweetened the deal with a tease. The tease comes in the form of him at his desk and drawing what islikely to be the new Soul Edge in the game.
With this confirmation, it looks like Namco Bandai is hard at work with now THREE franchise fighting games. They got Tekken Tag Tournament 2 [...]

Game News - Mario on 3DS

The first Super Mairo Bros game was released by Nintendo in 1985, for over two decades the Super Maior Bro. was the best selling video game of all time. Since the release of the first game, there have been many other alternate versions. Vs. Super Mario Bros, which is in identical format with different stages and small differences and hidden items. All night Nippon Super Mario Bros, which was released in Japan and the graphic were based on Japanese radio show All-Night Nippon. Super Mario Bros. Special, a game that was a Japan release only [...]

Game "Journey" to be Made as Art

Millions of gamers will run up to the plate to defend videogames as a legitimate art form, but not every game is truly artistic. The attribute of being artistic is a difficult attribute to define because every gamer and every critic has their own idea of what makes something undeniably Art. Without going down the path of trying to make a case of what makes a videogame artistic, or what doesn't, let's just say that every year a few titles come out that the general consensus agrees has artistic merit. In recent years these [...]

Console News - Take your Sony Playstation anywhere!
At Sony's Tokyo Press Conference, Sony announced that they would get into the Android market by releasing PS1 titles, but instead of having their customers download titles one at a time, they would have a program that would act like a suite for the games. The Playstation Suite will also be available on PSP2 as well.
Among the first PS1 games to launch on the service will be Wild Arms, Cool Boarders 2, Rally cross, Medievil and Syphon Filter.
This is great in this blogger's opinion. Because there really isn't that many games for my [...]