Blizzard wins $6m lawsuit
A US district court has awarded Blizzard Entertainment $6 million in a legal dispute between the World of Warcraft developer and bot maker MDY, reports IGN.
MDY is the company behind the Glider bot, which allowed users to automate tasks such as gold farming and menial levelling in Blizzard's popular massively multimedia online (MMO) game, World of Warcraft.
Blizzard asserted the bot infringed on the game's copyright issues and Judge David Campbell ruled that the bot broke the terms of the licence that players accepted when they signed up to play the MMO.
Demon Blade comes to Wii
The highly-anticipated Wii-exclusive action RPG videogame Muramasa: The Demon Blade, will be released for the North American market, says Gamespy.
Game publishers Marvelous Entertainment USA and XSEED Games says the game is currently in development and will be released in 2009.
Featuring hand-drawn 2D art reflecting the heritage and tone of the storyline, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, transports players into a little-known mythology, envisioned by the creators of the critically acclaimed Odin Sphere.
Acer releases Predator
Acer has released its new gaming PC, the Aspire Predator, which according to Acer is set to combat the likes of the HP Blackbird 002, Falcon Northwest Mach V, and the Alienware Area-51 ALX, reports PC Magazine.
The Predator starts at $1 649 for the G7700-UQ9300A with an Intel Core 2 Quad 9300 processor, an nVidia GeForce 9600GT graphics card, 8GB of DDR2 memory, two 640GB hard drives, a DVD-ROM and DVD burner, and Vista Premium 64-bit.
In addition, the gaming PC launches with a new Acer G24 widescreen display with a 50 000:1 contrast ratio, 1 920 by 1 200 resolution, and 2ms GTG (grey to grey) response time.
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