Today on Headline
RePLAY: Hints of a Black Ops sequel is afoot, the legal battle for the Fallout name comes to a conclusion and
thousands show interest in seeing Dark
Souls for the PC.
A sequel for
Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops became
inevitable today after the publisher secretly acquired the domain rights to
blackops2.com.
Fusible reports that the
domain was registered in May 2010 shortly after Black Ops was announced and switched from Domains by Proxy to
MarkMonitor, an internet brand protection company that has Activision as a
client.
Treyarch, the
developer behind Black Ops, has never
went on record in creating a sequel but the blackops2.com domain acquisition is
a strong indicator towards such a possibility.
*Source: Fusible
Bethesda Softworks and
Interplay’s battle in the courts over the rights to the Fallout name finally ended today.
The suit was in
regards to a Fallout MMO, which Interplay
announced five years ago. Bethesda announced that as part of the settlement
Interplay lost its license to develop the Fallout
MMO “null and void” and “all rights granted to Interplay” to develop the MMO “revert
back to Bethesda, effective immediately.”
Consequently,
Interplay’s rights to sell Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics will expire in December 2013 in addition to any
merchandising rights it had in association with the Fallout IP.
*Source: Joystiq
A Namco Bandai
employee last week offered this quest to fans of Dark Souls: show “demand” for a PC version of the acclaimed RPG—
and the fans have answered in the tens of thousands.
As of this news
posting, there are over 54,000 signatures on a petition asking Namco Bandai to
release Dark Souls on the PC and the
numbers are still rising.
For those that would
like to show support for the effort, the petition can be found here.
*Source: Destructoid
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