Today on Headline
RePLAY: BlizzCon skips a year, Minecraft LEGOs and NimbleBit’s letter to Zynga
about the difference between inspiration and theft.
Blizzard has announced
that there won’t be a BlizzCon this year due to the company’s “jam-packed
schedule” and will return in 2013.
Considering all the work
involved in organizing Blizzard’s annual convention to fans and the company’s
lineup for 2012 (Diablo 3, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria and
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm), the
decision makes a great deal of sense.
See you next year,
BlizzCon!
*Source: BlizzardForums
Anyone else thought
that Minecraft was like digital LEGOs just with exploding zombies added in? Apparently,
LEGO agrees and is in the process of making Minecraft LEGOs a reality!
The “Minecraft project”
has recently acquired 10,000 supporters at LEGO CUUSO and passed the LEGO review
as a result. According to LEGO CUUSO, LEGO is now “developing a concept that
celebrates the best aspects of building with the LEGO system and in Minecraft.”
Minecraft and LEGOs
may sound redundant, but the possibilities with either are literally endless.
*Source: LEGO CUUSO Blog
Dear Zynga,
Stealing our ideas is
flattering, but please stop.
Sincerely,
NimbleBit, creator of Tiny Tower.
And that sums up
NimbleBit’s graphic letter to Zynga on their release of Dream Heights, an iOS game with an uncanny resemblance to the indie
studio’s Tiny Tower.
“We wanted to thank
all of you guys for being such big fans of our iPhone game of the year Tiny Tower!” the letter wrote alongside screenshots of the two games. “Good luck with your game, we are
looking forward to inspiring you with our future games!”
Unfortunately, cases
like these are all too common in the iOS arena where numerous games are often blatant
clones of each other.
*Source: Joystiq
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