Report: French delivery truck hijacked, 6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3 stolen

by Jessica Conditt on Nov 6th 2011 9:30PM

A delivery truck in Créteil, France carrying 6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3 was hijacked and stolen on Saturday by two masked people, French news outlets TFI and Ultimate PS3 reported. The truck crashed with a car, and when the truck's drivers exited, two people in masks tear-gassed them before taking off with the games, TFI said. The shipment was reported to be worth 400,000 euros ($551,000).

If you're in the Créteil area and happen to see two people in a delivery truck grinning like maniacs and most likely high-fiving a lot, you may want to contact the authorities. And everyone -- let's settle down. Modern Warfare 3 comes out on Tuesday. It's not worth jail time to play this one a few hours early.

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Nintendo patents periscope-esque Wiimote touchpad attachment

by JC Fletcher on Nov 4th 2011 10:28AM

A Nintendo patent shows that Nintendo is, or was, considering the graft of Wii U-like features onto the regular old Wiimote. The company applied for a patent for a device that adds a touch panel to the Wiimote, using an infrared LED and mirrors to feed info about the position of your finger into the Wiimote's IR sensor. The patent describes using it as a mouse pointer or a drawing interface. You know, touch panel stuff.

The tech doesn't exactly emulate the WiiPad, as the touch panel is just for controls, and isn't a screen. It's unclear whether this is something Nintendo is planning for the future -- for enhancing Wiimotes for use on Wii U -- or if it's just an idea someone cooked up.

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Ubisoft reveals 15M copies sold of Black Ops (that's right)

by JC Fletcher on Nov 8th 2011 6:30PM

On this Call of Duty day, we look back at the success of Black Ops, a game so outrageously popular that its sales figures show up in other companies' earnings reports. Really!

In an investor presentation today, Ubisoft posted the top ten games in the US from January of 2010 through September of 2011, according to NPD data. And that's how we learned that Call of Duty: Black Ops sold 14,983,459 units in the US through September.

Of course, the point Ubisoft was trying to make was that Just Dance 2 was the second-best selling game in the US (at 5,245,480 copies), but we found that the second-most interesting number on the list.

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NintendoWare Weekly: Balloon Kid, 1950s Lawn Mower Kids

by JC Fletcher on Nov 3rd 2011 11:00AM

It's a "kid" oriented week for Nintendo downloadables. If you've been waiting for more Balloon Fight since downloading the NES game -- and of course you have -- Balloon Kid for Game Boy brings you an adventure expanded from that NES game, with new abilities and obstacles. You'll be delighted as long as you don't realize that Japan got the Game Boy Color version ... whoops!

While you have the 3DS open, you can also enjoy a "Main Theme Medley" from the recent Zelda concert on Nintendo Video.

On DSiWare, 1950s Lawn Mower Kids is a game about guiding three of the title characters to perform their gardening duties among UFOs, dogs, and other obstacles.

WiiWare Gnomz (QubicGames, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points): A four-player platform/fighting game -- about garden gnomes! Hey, this looks fun. And it has "considerable amounts of game modes," according to the trailer.3DS eShop Balloon Kid (Game Boy) (Nintendo, 1 player, $2.99): Float carefully through eight stages, avoiding random pointy things in the air. You now have the ability to drop your balloons and re-inflate them once on the ground.DSiWare 1950s Lawn Mower Kids (Zordix AB, 1 player, $4.99/500DSi Points): Mow yards as three kids on riding mowers -- controlling all three simultaneously.House M.D. -Episode 4: Crashed (Legacy Interactive, 1 player, $7.99/800 DSi Points): A disgruntled drug addict is given unfettered access to intensive care patients.

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NintendoWare Weekly: Freakyforms

by JC Fletcher on Nov 10th 2011 10:35AM

Nintendo made it really, really easy this week for us to notice the release of its original 3DS download game, Freakyforms. Unfortunately, it did this by releasing nothing else on eShop (save some Zelda music on Nintendo Video), and very little on DSiWare (a tower defense game about monkeys popping balloons, and a generic strategy title).

Meanwhile, on WiiWare ... step aerobics. So yeah, Freakyforms! It looks really cute!

WiiWare Step Up! (GolemLabs & Zoozen, 1 player, 800 Wii Points): Step aerobics training, with "intense energy music, that will drive you [sic] body."3DS eShop Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! (Nintendo, 1 player, $6.99): Build creatures that were never meant to walk upon this earth ... and then go explore a cute little world with them!DSiWare Castle Conqueror - Heroes (Circle Entertainment, 1 player, $4.99/500 DSi Points): Sci-fi themed strategy.Bloons TD (Digital Goldfish, 1 player, $4.99/500 DSi Points): A tower defense game, about monkeys with dart guns popping balloons as they move through a maze.

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THQ's sales 'exceeded expectations' in Q2, Space Marine sold 1.2 million

by Griffin McElroy on Nov 2nd 2011 5:15PM

THQ has announced financial figures for the second quarter (July through September) of its 2012 fiscal year. Despite having a release schedule that any company would consider light, it managed to bring in net sales of $146 million. That's a pretty significant increase over the $77.1 million it brought in during the same period last year. Of course, its losses nearly doubled year-over-year as well. Easy come, easy go.

The top performer was Warhammer 40K: Space Marine, which managed to sell 1.2 million units across all platforms during the quarter, a little under half of which were sold in North America. Brian Farrell, THQ's CEO, explained during a conference call that older catalog titles also sold well, specifically mentioning Saints Row 2. We guess people are eager to get back into the swing of (blowing up) things.

Farrell added, "We are encouraged that our second quarter performance exceeded our expectations, particularly in a quarter with a light release schedule." We imagine he'll be pretty darn encouraged next quarter, which sees the release of the ridiculous Saints Row: The Third, and the somehow even more ridiculous WWE '12.

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