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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 [...]

Method Man Raps For Upcoming Titles Featuring Sour Patch Kids

Method Man is known for a lot of things. He's a member of the Wu Tang clan, he loves video games (Def Jam Vendetta: FFNY was awesome), and has a sense of humor (despite we should ignore the "Method and Red" sitcom from years ago). However, I never expected the same man rapping about Sour Patch Kids. In this Youtube video called"World Gone Sour (The Lost Kids)" he raps about an incident involving missing sour-sweet candy pieces. This is the same man help make the music video"Triumph", right?
However, the big question [...]

Sony: Firmware Updates Will Not Be Troublesome in the Future

Currently, Sony's biggest problem is the way their consoles like the PSP updates their firmware. They're always often and they slow down or tie up the system which in result means that pick-up-and-play gaming sessions are halted by an essential firmware update.
This has been a problem Sony is looking to fix with the PlayStation Vita. Found here on Kotaku,Shuhei Yoshida (Head of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios) stated the following:
"...it's very annoying when you only have one hour in your busy life to play a game, and when you have [...]

Square's FFXIII-2 Gives You the Ability to Travel Through Time and Fix Some of the Prequel's Wrongs.

Being a fan of Final Fantasy since its early beginnings, I didn't hear many complaints about the series until the discovery of internet. Then came the wave of such things like "what was wrong with this Final Fantasy", "what should have happened in that Final Fantasy", "I'm some spoony internet video reviewer, and I want to complain and make false accusations about Rikku on FFX-2 for two hours", and so on and so on until everyone was blue in the face. The latest complaint [...]

The world's largest MMORPG hasn't reached its peak and has lots of potential, according to Blizzard.

Back in 2010, World of Warcraft obtaineda high number of 12 million+ subscribers to its game. But recently, the company's most recent stats show that the game has lost nearly 600,000 members. It is probably due to the rise of F2P (free to play) games showing up and taking people away from WOW, which runs on a paid subscription platform.With the rising number of free-to-play games, some think WOW's gone the way of the gaming industry's dodo, Everquest.
Blizzard doesn't think so, and states you shouldn't [...]

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 [...]

Japanese video game retailers like Geo are no longer supporting the Xbox 360.

Japan has been somewhat of a taboo place for the Xbox 360 when it comes to sales. Despite the fact that around the world the Xbox 360 is just as common in a house as a toaster, the console never really found a standing in Japan. While there were top selling 360-only titles like the Dead Rising and Dead or Alive series, both Sony and Nintendo are crushing the gaijin (foreign) console. Statistically, in Japan, the Wii has sold 11.74 million units, the PS3 has sold 6.85 million [...]

Blizzard contemplates on bringing Diablo III to PS3, XBOX, and/or Wii-U in the future

Blizzard has in the pastshown interest about having Diablo III or a Diablo-related concept on gaming consoles when they were asked about such an idea. Well lately, it seems they are thinking more seriously about the concept more and more.
Recently at Blizzard's press conference at Germany's Gamescom,Josh Mosqueira, Diablo III lead designer, stated that he is"very, very serious" about bringing some undefined "experience" to platforms beyond PC gaming. That interpreted means he and his team at Blizzard are likely on trying to bring the experience to consoles.
"Today [...]

Nintendo's new console will support 3D TVs but won't focus on it.

The Wii U, Nintendo's new console, will support 3D television technology according to Nintendo's company president Satoru Iwata in an interview with Mercury News. However, since most people don't own a 3D TV these days and it doesn't seem like its going to be common as the DVD player for a while, Nintendo isn't putting much emphasis into it.
"If you are going to connect Wii U with a home TV capable of displaying 3-D images, technologically, yes, it is going to be possible, but that's not the area we [...]

Battlefield 3 fanbase raising the rivalry between EA and Activision

It's only been a few weeks since E3 wrapped up and already the fanbases of both games of Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 are standing their ground on which game will win this year's FPS rivalry. You see it in various forums, comments sections of gaming news sites like Kotaku and Digg's gaming section, and you even hear it on other games voice/text chat like Team Fortress 2 and Halo: Reach.
Now I'm a person who's usually on the fence when it comes to video games. I usually make my position [...]