Morning DLC: Video Games News And Rumors 8/1/13
By Nick Tylwalk
"Electronic Arts’ college sports franchises have been sacked by a U.S. federal appeals court.In a 2-1 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that EA had used the images in its video games of several ex-NCAA athletes without their permission in its NCAA football and basketball series. The decision comes two weeks after EA lost the rights to put the NCAA logo and name on its games beyond this year.Circuit Judge Jay Bybee, writing for the majority of the court, said EA’s game “literally recreates [Arizona State University quarterback Samuel] Keller in the very setting in which he has achieved renown.”"
"Two spokespeople from Naughty Dog have taken to Reddit to answer questions regarding “The Last of Us,” and the future of the studio in general.“The Last of Us” creative director Neil Druckmann and game director Bruce Straley touched on subjects including “The Last of Us’s” controversial ending, and when to expect a DLC announcement.On the topic of DLC, Druckmann confirmed that news on single-player DLC is incoming. “News is on the way about the first DLC drop,” he wrote. “Should hear about it this month.”"
"The numbers are in and Nintendo has unabashedly let loose the figures for the Nintendo Wii U over the last three months and it isn’t pretty. The new generation console from the Big ‘N’ managed to move only 160,000 SKUs over the course of three months in Japan, North America and Europe.According to a breakdown of financial numbers from GameIndustry.biz, the Wii U moved 90,000 SKUs in Japan, 60,000 SKUs in the U.S., and a paltry 10,000 SKUs in both Europe and Australia. Ouch.The quarter before the last one was definitely better for Nintendo than the most recent one. Mainly because things looked even worse for the Wii U when comparing it to the Nintendo Wii sales, which saw the Wii moving 210,000 units over the last quarter with more than 3.67 million software units being moved for the console. That’s not too bad."