Maybe this guy should make his own video game, and then Atomic Games can steal it from him. We'll see how much he likes that.
News Blips:
Over the weekend at Penny Arcade Expo East, 20-year-old Justin D. May allegedly attempted to steal the code for Breach from developer Atomic Games. The suspect admitted to Joystiq that he tried to make off with the game and is currently out on $200 bail -- though he skipped out on arrangement this morning. Also at PAX, May asked during the "Enforcement on Xbox Live: Tales from the Din Part 2" panel if his Xbox Live account could be unbanned; he was kicked out for playing an illegally downloaded copy of Forza 3. I like to think we have some awesome hardcore gamers at Bitmob, but I don't think any of you are willing to risk jail time for a video game.
Take-Two sends out compensation to gamers over the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee settlement. A
Kotaku reader recently received a $5 check from the publisher, whose 2004 game contained a hidden sex-themed mini-game, which resulted in several lawsuits against them. Payouts supposedly range between $5 and $35. Hopefully that will be enough to cover the therapy that sensitive gamers undoubtedly sought after hearing that somewhere in their games was a polygon-shaped-character-sex simulator.
Gamasutra reports that Nintendo announced the Nintendo 3DS last week in order to preempt a possible leak of the information from the Japanese press. The company recently released its larger screened DSi XL in North America, and the recent (ill-timed) announcement of an even newer version of the handheld -- with more details promised at E3 -- could theoretically hurt sales. How much do you want to bet that Nintendo will make the 3DS with smaller screens, so you'll feel compelled to buy both?
Bulgarian city council votes councilman off of a committee for playing Farmville during meetings. Allegedly several city councilmen are known to play the addictive-social-network game on the city hall's new wireless networks and laptops. A committee that had the most persistent player, Dimitar Kerin, decided to make an example of him for playing games instead of tending to city council meetings. To be fair, I use to play
Pokémon in class all the time, but then again, I was never elected to a public office. [
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