Gadgets and Video Games

If you had your heart set on downloading Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment via XBLA or PSN this September, prepare to have it broken. Konami has confirmed to Joystiq a report by Eurogamer that the return of the company’s classic strategy RPG franchise has been delayed until “winter.” No reason was provided for the postponement of the game, which we first caught a glimpse of earlier this year.

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Vandal Hearts delayed for XBLA and PSN, still hearts you

Joystiq admittedly went a little crazy with stories involving Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter recently. But, how can the internet blame us? The man is such an important figure. Not only to the video game industry, but to the current state of humanity

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The internets present: Michael Pachter FACTS

Each week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq (“LGJ”), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games : Terra Nova recently posted a note about a Craigslist case that could have some impact on the gaming space. It relates to theories about how players could sue other players, which is something that briefly came up in a World of Warcraft suit two years ago (which settled before going to court). The result of the case was, in no uncertain terms, that a lawsuit under a third-party beneficiary theory could be entirely blocked by a well written Terms of Use. That’s not to say that all cases involving third parties are barred, as another World of Warcraft legal battle, the Glider case, was successful; though primarily based on tortious interference. So, while some potential sources of player-versus-player lawsuits may be now foreclosed, I still think there’s a range of potential suits that could become prevalent.

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LGJ: The new meaning of ‘player vs player’

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Grasshopper Manfacture boss Goichi ” Suda 51 ” Suda likes to do everything to the extreme, whether it’s the ultra-violence of No More Heroes or — as we now know — playing other developers’ games, specifically Criterion’s Burnout Paradise . The British dev’s head honcho, Alex Ward, issued a tweet revealing that Suda had recently popped by his studio (likely after the recent Nordic Game Conference ) and is a “hardcore Burnout fan.” “Hardcore” may be an understatement, as Ward disclosed that server logs show Suda has played more than 700 hours of Burnout Paradise . So, there it is: Even more proof that Suda 51 knows great games and takes everything to the extreme .

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Suda 51 plays Burnout Paradise (a lot) more than you

Trademarks for both Fitness Hero and Workout Hero have been registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Siliconera , which spends its summer afternoons looking up trademarks, found the listings aren’t by Activision, but by VPT Technologies, an exergaming developer. We said it before — when Gearbox Software registered War Hero — doesn’t Activision own the word “hero” in relation to any video game by this point? We know Activision is litigious — even when it’s wrong . Some attorney on retainer should be all over this

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Fitness Hero! Workout Hero! (Not from Activision, though!)

There’s been a pretty crazy rumor floating around. originating from the mixedmartialarts.com forums . The rumor states that UFC will blacklist any fighter that chooses to be a part of EA’s upcoming game, MMA

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Rumor: UFC to ban fighters that sign on for EA’s MMA

Let’s face it, Splinter Cell ’s Sam Fisher has traveled a rocky road. For a while he completely disappeared from the console scene. Sure, we saw him every once in a while, lurking in magazines or in a few videos (complete with Emo makeover ).

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Video: Sam Fisher’s rebirth in Splinter Cell Conviction

We can’t tell you the number of times we’ve been on a train or bus and thought, “Wow, I really wish I was playing (insert your favorite PSX game here, though we’re going to assume it’s Pepsiman because of course it is).” Engadget reports that super hacker ZodTTD has heard our silent prayer and brought PlayStation 1 emulation to the Palm Pre. It’s not quite perfect yet (and not just because you have to play the thing with a keyboard), but at least we know our dream of bringing refreshing Pepsi-Cola to the children of the world on the go is just a bit closer to fruition. Hacker brings PlayStation to the Pre originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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Hacker brings PlayStation to the Pre

Move over Johnny Lee . Now that you’ve gone corporate , there’s a new student researcher in town ready to take up your mantle. What mantle is that, you ask? The “show us cool tech that can be used in video games via YouTube” mantle, of course.

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A peek (and head tilt) into the future: head-tracking in FPS games