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Anthony Puzo, son of the late Mario Puzo, is suing Paramount Pictures for at least $1M for breach of contract, after the studio allegedly failed to turn over revenues from the video game adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather”.
Paramount licensed game published Electronic Arts to turn the original 1972 film into a video game [...]

For Playstation 3 owners, your gaming experience is going to get a lot more commercial, and cluttered, and distracting, etc. etc. insert sellout rant here. But naturally, if Sony is to be believed, it’s all going to be subtle and stuff.
How much does Sony stand to gain by opening up the PS3 to advertisers? By [...]

So here’s the thing: the wise and good people at Namco Bandai decided to put a few Star Wars characters in their Soulcaliber fighting game series. BUT they put Darth Vader in the PS3 version and Yoda in the XBox 360 version, and so never the twain shall meet.
Enter the guy above, Starkiller, Vader’s Sith [...]

What is Qore? It’s a bit like a gamers’ magazine, a bit like a podcast, a bit like a website.
It’s basically exclusive content that Sony wants its PS3 owners to subscribe to via the online Sony Playstation Network and will feature galleries, trailers, interactive stuff, and even ads, in addition to “a few other surprises”.
Episodes [...]

USA Major Soccer League team Seattle Sounders FC has revealed its official team jersey, bearing the name “XBox 360 Live”, displayed prominently across its breast.
Though both sides are playing hush-hush, it’s been reported that the deal was worth about $20M, and will include playing surface sponsorship (”The XBox Pitch at Qwest Field”) and, naturally, official [...]

I don’t play very many fighting games anymore, but if it’s Street Fighter-related I’m all ears. Or in this case eyes.
It’s Street Fighter 4! It isn’t really the fourth installment, but what the heck?
And what with all the hubbub about that other megafranchise that sports the number four (GTA4, for the hopelessly underinformed), perhaps some [...]

The Nintendo Wii, Microsoft’s XBox 360, and the Sony Playstation 3 all contain too much bromine, according to environmental watchdog group Greenpeace.
Bromide is classified by Greenpeace as a chemical that’s hazardous to the environment,and the PS3 had the highest levels of it.
The XBox and PS3 also had beryllium-containing alloys, which Greenpeace found worrisome. All three [...]

Is Microsoft developing a motion-sensitive controller similar to Nintendo’s Wiimote? The project, supposedly codenamed “Newton”, has been making the rounds but Microsoft Game Studios head Shane Kim sort of put down the rumors, though he stopped short of a full denial.
Meanwhile, Yu Suzuki’s masterly Shenmue series is supposed to be up for a Nintendo [...]

Recently rumors have been flying about a planned “slimmed-down” version of the Microsoft XBox 360 gaming console. The sleeker model was supposed to have been in line for a 2009 release.
But a Microsoft representative quashed the rumor by telling tech blog Engadget the whole thing was a hoax.
Unless, of course, the rep was pulling a [...]

Japan’s $6.9 billion arcade gaming isustry has been hit hard by the increasing popularity of TV gaming consoles, particularly the Nintendo Wii, according to reports.
Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. plans to close a quarter of its outlets, while rival Namco Bandai Holdings has announced that it will shut down roughly 20 percent of its [...]