Unlike everybody else watching the spectacular demise of film-to-game flop factory Brash, we 've been vaguely curious as to what fates would befall the company 's leftover licenses. According to Variety 's Cut Scene blog, we can count "The Tale of Despereaux" among the survivors, as Atari has purchased the North American publishing rights for the PC, PS2 and Wii versions of the game. In addition, Atari will be distributing the DS version, which is being produced by Universal itself.

A pre-played version of 2005 's Animal Crossing: Wild World for DS, sent out to media outlets to encourage connectivity with the recent Animal Crossing release for Wii, contains at least one shocking addition, reports MTV Multiplayer. Importing the saved data from the DS cartridge sent by Nintendo into Animal Crossing: City Folk introduces a host of changes into the game, including one, suddenly no longer E-rated character, Baabara, who now greets players with: "How are you, Ñ---á?" [edited; original creator added diacritics]

In its 2008 edition of the 30 "most offensive" games on retail shelves, Christian investment firm The Timothy Plan warn consumers against purchasing Electronic Arts ' Army of Two, citing the game 's "homosexual encounters," reports GamePolitics.

Namco Bandai has released a handful of new screenshots from the upcoming multi-platform, 3-D fighter Tekken 6, demonstrating just how well the series has adapted to its debut in this modern console generation.

Atari is prepping us for a big rush of games, with today 's announcement of their upcoming titles for 2009. Here 's a rundown of the games you can expect from Atari, including The Witcher on the PS3 Xbox 360 and Ready 2 Rumble on WIi. See screenshots and a teaser trailer too!

Here is your chance to become the most famous motoracer champion ever! Ride your bike through three different races.

I don’t think it can have escaped anyone’s attentions that there was a reasonably significant election in America recently. And they got me thinking. Barack Obama is 47. By contrast, David Cameron - who leaps to mind as another potential national leader in the coming years, whatever you may think of that fact - is 42. I got to thinking about what a national leader might look like in ten years time, 2018. Let’s suggest, based on Obama and Cameron, that they’re 45. They’re 45 in 2018 when they stand for office - that means they were born in 1973. They would have been four when Taito released Space Invaders came out; seven when Pac Man came out. In 1985, when they were 12, Nintendo would launch the NES in the west. At 18, just as they would have been heading to University, the first NHL game came out for the Genesis/Megadrive and might consumed many a night in the dorm. At 22, the Playstation was launched. At 26, they could have bought a PS2 at launch; at 31, they might have taken up World of Warcraft with their friends. They would have been a gamer all their lives. Not someone who once played videogames, trotting out the same anecdote about “playing Asteroids once” in interviews; someone for whom games were another part of their lives, a primary, important medium. Someone who understood games. And if that was the case, what might they have learned?

Inside the frosted glass doors of Afkar Media, located in Damascus 's newly-built free-zone, software developers are trying to rebuild a civilization inside a video game. Set to be released in September, "Al-Quraysh" is a strategy game that tells the story of the first 100 years of Islam 's history from the viewpoint of four different nations - Bedouins, Arabs, Persians, and Romans.

It’s common knowledge that Nintendo is the only current platform holder to have made a profit from its hardware from the off, and now a number has been put on that - $6.

Despite what everyone is saying or wants to think, the gaming industry is not recession proof; it has been hurting, and it will continue to hurt as the economy continues to slump. We recently published an article, which discussed the implications of an Electronic Arts buyout by Disney and the threat of consolidation in the gaming industry. But that discussion only scratched the surface of a much larger cloud that is looming over the business, and the guiding force that sparked that initial conversation in the first place: the gaming industry’s vulnerability to the downturn of the global economy.

It 's no secret that iPhone has turned the mobile phone industry on its head, sliding past its smartphone rivals with its sexy design. We know Apple has opened a new chapter in mobile technology, but the real story behind this is how the iPhone is quietly taking over pocket gaming.

Sumner Redstone, the billionaire chairman of both Viacom and CBS, sold his controlling stake in video game publisher Midway Games, Inc. to a private investor, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier today. Redstone sold his 87 percent stake in Midway to investor Mark Thomas for about $100,000, which puts the price per share at an abysmal $0.0012. Considering that, as of Monday, the company is valued at $0.32 per share, that may seem like a tremendous loss for the media giant.

Wharton professor Kevin Werbach has been appointed as a member of President-elect Barack Obama 's transition team. Werbach 's job will be to advise the new Administration on Internet and telecommunication issues as they take over from the Bush Administration. The reason I 'm posting this here? He 's a World of Warcraft player. In many cases, that 's not necessarily saying much. But Livejournaler Waltermonkey has done some digging.

Not just because you got older, but because they have been changed ever so slightly, not a lot, but just enough to make playtime a little more like watching soon to be ex-president Bush attempt to speak publicly… It’s painful, but like a boner in gym class, strangely hilarious.

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