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China, the bountiful land that brought us such joys as Chairman Mao,Journey to the West, and wanton wontons, is a strange place. Whilepiracy,copyright infringing, and black market trading runs rampant in Shanghai, Founder Electronics is getting their knickers in a twist over a bunch of squiggles that don’t really mean anything. Founder is suing Blizzard for copyright infringement of its fonts, and the People’s High Council (intimidating, innit?) have accepted the case....

Death Rally(iPhone & iPad) is free today. Remedy is saying it’s a short promotional campaign, so you better get on it right now! Go grab ithere. I paid $5 for it at the time and it didn’t disappoint, even though it was expensive as hell for a mobile game and it dropped in price a week later. Beside being an all around great game, it’s also not very large (82.8MB) compared to other big name iOS titles....

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another. Now when I say “it’s finally here,” I am secretly referring to two things. Firstly, the new meetup+play features. Niero has already explained how it all works here.Go read that! Why? Because you can win yourself a swanky gaming PC by simply trying it out. No mad gaming skillz required! While we are busy tending to our bonsai trees most days, we’re always open to suggestions/feedback....

Iwouldadmonish developers for creating really annoying and vapid teaser Web sites that contain nothing of interest, butwe bloggerspost about them like the predictable little bumblebees that we are, so I guess From Software’s ploy has worked. Yes, the developer of the critically acclaimedNinja Bladehas a teaser upfor a new project. It has no reason to exist, but it’s there. As you can see from our header image, the site shows a door blocked off by a rope, with a sign that reads: “2025-08-02 OPEN....

Christopher Tinwinning a Grammyfor “Baba Yetu”? There’s more where that came from. As reported by IndustryGamers, The Recording Academy has tweaked four Grammy Award categories to better reflect videogames as a legitimate medium. The Music for Visual Media, Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, and Best Song Written for Visual Media now have “video game music” descriptors, right alongside “motion” and “television.” VP of Awards Bill Freimuth thinks this move “could be viewed as a first step in the direction of video games getting their own category....

Set to ship for the PS3 on March 26th,Clash of the Titansshould be ordered atGameStopif you want a couple of nifty bonuses with yourGod of War-style movie licenses. GameStop-exclusive quests Bird in Hand and Songs of Enchantment are available to both online and in-store pre-order customers, and will be delivered by a code (via email or card). In these quests, you’ll be able to do things like slay a cockatrice (and get a new sub-weapon) or take on Siren and Succubus (and get a new sub-weapon)....

At gamescom today, Harmonix CEO and co-founder Alex Rigopulos revealed that tracks from Queen, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Iggy Pop, The White Stripes, Pantera, Talking Heads, Korn, and The Rancontuers would be coming toRock Band. No other details really on that, really. That’s about it. Here’s probably why he mentioned those artists in particular: Many of them — Queen, Nirvana, Elton John, Tom Petty, and Iggy Pop, for example — are all set to debut inGuitar Hero 5which hits shelves on September 1....

At GDC Europe today, Eric Chahi (Another World,Flashback) and Ronan Bel (Ubisoft lead programmer genius) talked about the upcoming (and promising)Project DUST. Chahi showed a lot of video material of their engine, and how the in-game environment changing actually works. In a nutshell,Project DUSTfeatures a dynamic world where the elements of earth (in the form of rock), water and fire (in the form of lava) are used in tandem with vegetation to create any type of landscape you want....

Bizzare Creations’Geometry Warsis everywhere — on your XBLA, Windows XP, Wii and DS —and Steam, Valve’s Golden Boy digital distribution service. With all of the other options availble to play that math-hating jumble of shmupy goodness, why should any body care about the Steam version? Well, because, like a good whore, its cheaper than all the rest. Let’s see … you can pay for a fully-pricedWii or DS version, MSN Games version for $8, the original XBLA title for about $5, or give your hard-earned $2....

A couple of days ago, we got the word thata newKirbygame is coming to the Wii. In typical Nintendo style, this announcement was made with little fanfare, with nothing but a few details and a tiny, thirty second video to mark its coming arrival. Last year, they announcedthe nextRhythm Heavengamein almost the exact same way. Well, we still don’t have much more info on either game, other than the fact that the next Rhythm Heaven game will have both single player and multi-player modes, and that both games are expected for release in Japan this year....

Tired of only being able to play “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” in the stressful boss battle against Lou? I don’t blame you — the dudeisa huge prick after all. Everything is going to be just fine though, as a new song pack is now available forGuitar Hero III(Xbox 360 only so far) which includes all 3 boss battle songs from the single-player campaign mode. Best of all, it’s free!...

It’s a good thing we didn’t travel all the way to Germany just to watch somebody hold a PlayStation 3 Slim up on stage from a hundred feet away. We would’ve been out of town when one showed up right on our own doorstep earlier this morning. Yup, we’ve got one, and Nick Chester and I have spent the better part of the day manhandling it. In more ways than one, it wasn’t exactly what we expected....

Kinect is kind of a big deal. Since the motion controller (or as some call it, “the un-controller”) was first announced at E3 09, the hands-free controller has built up quite a reputation. Some have said that Kinect isn’t really even a videogame control device and is in fact a supernatural force created by magic. Microsoft seems to have gotten wind of Kinect’s ability to inspire awe in those that are yet to experience it, hence their clown-packed, Tron-elephant-laden Kinect showcase at last summer’s E3....