Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled today in a case between the US-based company Oracle and the German-based company UsedSoft that software publishers can not restrict the resale of their products even if the software was sold via digital distribution.
Confirming rumors that date back to the weeks leading up to E3 2012, Sony announced today that they intend acquire 100% of the equity in the cloud gaming company Gaikai Inc. for approximately $380 million before the end of August 2012.
This past week during the company's annual shareholder meeting Nintendo President Satoru Iwata revealed that the Wii U's online service will be free and will not require users to have a paid membership to access features.
Tomorrow Corporation, the studio formed by some of the developers of World of Goo and Henry Hatsworth, announced yesterday that they are nearing completion on their next game, Little Inferno, and plan to release it "this winter on multiple platforms".
Activision has yet to make a formal announcement, but it has been confirmed that Vancouver-based Radical Entertainment, the studio behind the Prototype series, has officially been shut down today.
Sony Computer Entertainment of America announced today that they are planning to kick off a LittleBigPlanet Karting beta for the PS3 in the very near future.
A last-minute announcement by Telltale Games today revealed that The Walking Dead: Episode 2 will launch tomorrow on XBLA, followed the PC and PSN version on Friday, June 29th. These dates apply to all regions, except for the PS3 version in Europe, which will have its launch date announced "later".
Square Enix has revealed that British-born actress Camilla Luddington is the voice and motion-capture actor for Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider game.
Last week a title update for Fez was released onto Xbox Live followed by a warning from the developer, Polytron, to not install the update because of a "widespread" problem where the save file was being seen as corrupted by the game after the update. Microsoft has now pulled the patch from Live, so that any new Fez players won't be affected.
Seaman creator Yoot Saito Tweeted a picture of a Seaman dressed like Santa to his followers today along with the message, "it's about time that he begin thinking about the end of the year".