Morning DLC: Video Games News And Rumors 8/18/13
By Nick Tylwalk
"Gamecom has been a favorable venue for Sony to announce their new wares to the unsuspecting gaming masses. This year’s not looking any different, as the video game giant may drop the big one: the official launch date of the PS4.A little blurb over on Sony’s UK website, gives us a rather quiet assertion Sony may be planning to use Gamescom for a hardware announcement. The page is modest, and is what you would expect from a companies basic advertisement of their presence at a convention. One little point of interest, however, is one juicy little sentence sandwiched between a load of others:“We’ll kick off the show at 18:00 BST on 20 August 2013 with a briefing to media on our release plans for PlayStation 4, as well as updates on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. ”"
"During an event in Japan this weekend, fans spotted a brief tease for another potential Pokemon game on Wii U. A report appeared on the Internet message board, NeoGAF.A trailer during the Pokemon Game Show event showed as a brief tour through all the games in the series, including the popular trading card game released in the late ’90s. At the close of the video, a distorted video feed of two Pokemon in a faceoff briefly faded in and out on screen.Historically, some portable Pokemon games have been followed by home console installments that focus on arena battles such as “Pokemon Stadium” and “Pokemon Battle Revolution,” but it’s unclear if this video tease is related in any way."
"Electronic Arts and the makers of Bell Helicopter, have settled a lawsuit concerning the use of real-world aircraft in “Battlefield 3,” for which EA did not have permission. The publisher had asked a judge to rule it had a right to the depictions because they were part of a creative work protected by the First Amendment.Terms of the settlement were not disclosed in the latest filing on the lawsuit, but the case was dismissed with prejudice, which means it can’t be brought again. The action was brought in January 2012 after negotiations between EA and Textron (Bell’s parent company) broke down. EA reasoned that a film about the U.S. military doesn’t have to pay royalities to Textron for using its aircraft, so why must a video game? The question appeared to probe the new boundaries of video games as protected works of free expression, a designation explicitly made by the Supreme Court in mid-2011."