Well, not directly, but it did so by suing Immersion, the company who provides rumble for all the console manufacturers’ controllers — including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

If you guys haven’t heard about the tussle before, this is how it went down:

• Immersion sues Sony and Microsoft.
• Sony refuses to settle.
• Microsoft settles, adding that if Sony settled, they get $15 Million.
• Sony settles, releases DualShock 3.
• Microsoft sues Immersion.
• Gets money back, cha-ching!

For gamers, it shouldn’t matter what companies do to make their money as long as they keep feeding us more quality games but this legal battle served little good. Reason why we got our shiny, rumble-rific DualShock 3s late and why we can’t feel the power of Call of Duty 4’s shots…

Thanks to Kotaku for making sense of the situation for us.

Image Credit: Spokenhub

written by Carlos Macias \\ tags: company, course, DualShock, haven, Immersion, matter, Microsoft, Million, money, Nintendo, shouldn, Sony, Sticks, tussle, Wins

For those of you wishing you had a bigger hard drive, Sony is looking to comply with your wishes. The company will be releasing a new PS3 bundle in November — inside: 160GB PS3 (sans PS2 backwards compatibility), Uncharted, voucher for downloadable game, PAIN, and the rumble-rific DualShock 3 for $499.99.

Does the added hard drive space and packed-in games sell it for those of you looking to purchase a PS3?

Image Credit: PS3.QJ.Net

written by Carlos Macias \\ tags: Bundle, company, compatibility, drive, DualShock, game, Makes, November, PAIN, Sony, space, Uncharted, voucher

In an interview with Gamasutra, Simon Jeffery, CEO of Sega of America, let out that Yu Suzuki is no longer with the company. Yu Suzuki was the creator of Virtua Fighter, Outrun, and his bank-breaking project Shenmue, as well as other games.

Virtua Fighter 5 was not directed by Suzuki so that series should be safe to continue, but it adds another nail to Shenmue III’s coffin — the game fans have been clamoring for since the sequel barely made it stateside on Xbox.

This writer dug the first Shenmue on Dreamcast in 2000 which made use of a cheesy soap-opera story and quick-time events that were later used in God of War and Resident Evil 4. It also had probably the best forklift racing, if only, in a video game. What do you guys think of the series? Or is further proof of its “never being released” status meaningless to you?

Via Gamasutra

written by Carlos Macias \\ tags: America, CEO, company, Creator, Fighter, gamasutra, game, God, III, Interview, nail, Outrun, project, Sega, series, Shenmue, Simon Jeffery, Suzuki, Virtua, Yu Suzuki

The guys over at Latino Review were lucky enough to get their hands on the script for V: The Movie. I was six years old when the original mini-series aired on television and certainly remember how huge the event was. We’ve been waiting most of our lives for V: The Movie and it looks like we’re getting closer to seeing it. The 145 page script still has yet to find a company who will make the film, but we can only hope. Latino Review posted a nice summary of the script (spoilers included). Check out the story at the Latino Review.

written by Will Snizek \\ tags: company, event, Film, Latino, leaked, mini-series, movie, page, Review, script, story, summary, television

Well, when we first reported that Knights of the Old Republic 3 was coming, we were right.  A report on Portfolio.com has confirmed that LucasArts and BioWare are working together to bring KOTOR 3 as an MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online).  In an interview at E3 this week, Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello said that EA is working on the next version of Star Wars game Knights of the Old Republic, and it will most certainly have a massively multiplayer online component to it.

All we can say is “It’s about time!”.

We have the interview below:

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written by Juan Perez \\ tags: Asia, Bioware, China, com, company, Features, game, industry, Interview, John Riccitiello, Knights, Knights of the Old Republic 3, KOTOR, KOTOR 3, LOS ANGELES, Lucas, LucasArts, MMO, MMOs, multiplayer, Old Republic, Online, Portfolio, year

The biggest games dropping this week are Battlefield: Bad Company, Rock Band for Wii, and the remixed Gears of War Refresh for the “budget” price of $39.99. Also, check out a preview for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith from this here writer on Xomba. Plug, plug, plug!

A demo for Bad Company is up on Xbox Live and PSN to try before you buy and buyers beware that the Wii version of Rock Band has been denied of future DLC, but sports 5 extra songs that have been available on Xbox 360 and PS3 for some time.

Check out the full list of games dropping this week after the break…

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written by Carlos Macias \\ tags: Aerosmith, battlefield, Big Beach, Chimp, company, E Deadliest, E Guitar, E Hail, Gears, Hail, Hero, June, Kane, man, Metascore, Nintendo Wii, plug, Refresh, Rock Band, Sim City, Toyland Wall, Trixie, Unrated, War, Week, X Ninja, X SaurianPSPWall-E, Xbox

Meth Coffee? We thought it was some half-witted joke ourselves, but apparently a San Francisco company is producing a new product called ‘Meth Coffee’ to help people stay awake. For you meth heads and crack addicts out there, we’re fairly certain you cannot smoke this product. Sorry guys!  Isn’t San Fran where they were selling some cola a few years back called “cocaine”? I guess when it comes to California, you just never know what they will export next.

Via Bitch Pleaz

written by Tony Clifton \\ tags: All, cannot, Coffee, company, Fran, gaming, help, isn, joke, Meth, night, product, San, San Francisco, Sessions, smoke, Use

No more Ninja Gaiden or Dead or Alive games…at least, no more at the hands of the original creator for those series, Tomonobu Itagaki. The man that has headed Team Ninja with his rock steady demeanor at Tecmo has sent out a statement letting us know that he plans on resigning from the company effective July 1st.

Some of his motives for quitting the company are the denial of bonuses promised to him for Dead or Alive 4, “demeaning remarks about [him] to [his] subordinates and colleagues,” and are mostly directed at Tecmo’s President, Yoshimi Yasuda.

1up.com speculates that some of the blood boiling between Tecmo and Itagaki may have started with the growing focus at the company to turn profits (i.e. Ninja Gaiden Sigma, which is essentially the same game from the original Xbox) and lessening efforts on original, quality products.

Sad to see the gore visionary go, but Itagaki is sure to fall on his feet soon to continue his violent-game tradition — just don’t expect them to have “Ninja Gaiden” or “Dead or Alive” in the title.

Via 1up.com

[Pic from IGN]

written by Carlos Macias \\ tags: Alive, com, company, Creator, Dead, Gaiden, Itagaki, man, Ninja, Quits, series, Sues, Team, Tecmo, Tomonobu

Wow, two weeks in a row now, and nothing to take out your velcro wallets for. If you like spending your cash-money on every Rock Band add-on, then this week is no different for you. You might want to check out the video for “No Country For old Men”, great flick! See you kiddies next week.

Add-on Content

- Rock Band DLC:

* The Cars album ($15)
* “Good Times Roll” ($2)
* “My Best Friend’s Girl” ($2)
* “Just What I Needed” ($2)
* “I’m in Touch with Your World” ($2)
* “Don’t Cha Stop” ($2)
* “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” ($2)
* “Bye Bye Love” ($2)
* “Moving in Stereo” ($2)
* “All Mixed Up” ($2)

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written by Juan Perez \\ tags: battlefield, Blu-ray, Bye, company, Country, Don, enemy, Men, Persia, Prince, Quake, Rock Band, Territory, Trailer, video, Wars, Week

Most of us noticed the “Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit” video on the front page of Digg.com yesterday. It turns out that the supposedly home-made video was more than likely something that came from the Tinsley Advertising Company. The sleuths over at Shoemoney discovered that the video was probably part of a Nintendo viral marketing campaign. I’m sure the video still would have been popular had this been known, but it is a shady form of marketing.

The actual video is currently well over 8,000 Diggs and will probably reach 9,000 before the day is over.  If we’ve learned anything from this, it’s the fact that viral YouTube marketing strategies are still extremely effective and powerful.

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written by Will Snizek \\ tags: company, Digg, Diggers, Duped, Fit, Girlfriend, guy, hot, marketing, May, Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, page, Tinsley, video, Viral