Telltale Games to produce new Wallace and Gromit series

Featuring the hilarious duo of claymation, Telltale Games (makers of the revived Sam & Max series and the new Strongbad Game) announced today that they will be working on another new series called Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures. Very little is known about the new series, and Telltale is planning to go into more detail this Monday (also the rumored day that Strongbad’s Cool Game For Attractive People will release).

Games for Windows Live is now Gold for free

Microsoft announced yesterday that Games for Windows that are a part of Games for Windows Live (used to be called Vista Live) will work like they had the gold version of that subscription.

Originally, if you had Xbox Live Gold, you would have Games for Windows Live Gold as well, and you could use the same gamertag, and your gamerscore and achievements would be combined on your PC and your Xbox 360.

Now, you don’t have to pay for a Games for Windows Live Gold Subscription, you can play with all the features of Gold for free.

If you don’t have an Xbox, and play a Games for Windows Live enabled game, you can play with gamers on the Xbox version of the game, and can play in Matchmaking games that use TruSkill (which still has flaws).

This doesn’t mean that Xbox Live Gold Subscriptions are now free. This only applies to PC games.

Nintendo denied from appeal against Anascape, still fighting

Anascape, the company that claims that they “invented” controller buttons (analog buttons on a remote control [which seems to only apply to game companies]), won another suit (filed in 2006) against Nintendo late 2007.

Recently, Nintendo was rejected a request to appeal by the US District Judge of Texas for the above case ruling that would force them to pay $21 million or risk of getting blocked from selling any WaveBirds (the wireless GameCube controllers), regular GameCube controllers and the Wii Classic Controller.

Nintendo is currently taking this to the Federal Circuit court, where they hope they can win.

Bungie Day Gamerpics and Theme revealed

Whoops! Microsoft released the Bungie Day gamerpics and themes a day early. What was meant to be released on Monday got released today.

Below are the gamerpics from Bungie day last year, and the ones for this year.

And the new theme:

Sony removes PS3 firmware update 2.40

Today, Sony pulled the PlayStation 3 Firmware update 2.4 after complaints arose over the update bricking player’s machines. Sony claims that this was because of a “limited number” of calls related to this problem and this conflict generates a “low volume” of support calls were made, and Sony wants to please the general audience that is PlayStation 3 owners.

Translation: “We screwed up on Version 2.40 and we know about it because we got a bazillion calls within the first few hours. We decided to pull the version and provide a working version later on”.

Sony, a limited number is a number. You could have just said, we recieved some phone calls with customers that are having this problem. Just give us a working Version 2.40, thanks.

Why 7/7 is the best for Halo fans

Last year, Bungie day meant cheaper maps and free themes and gamerpics.

But that was last year, who cares about Halo 2 maps packs being cheaper? That’s right. No one. No worry though, because Bungie is giving Halo fans a lot more cool stuff. This year, Bungie (fans of 7) is going to be giving away:

• 7 gamerpics that you can only download Monday only (same as last year)
• Cold Storage (yes, that new map they just announced will be free on Monday. Seriously, a free map!)
• And the Legendary Map Pack will be worth 600 Microsoft points (a drop in 200 Points!). It still includes the free 3 month subscription to Bungie Pro (this offer will not be available after 7/7)

For those who haven’t seen Cold Storage, there’s a picture of it on this post. Cold Storage is based off the Halo: Combat Evolved map Chill Out. To top everything off, Bungie produced a ViDoc called “And on the Seven7h day…” which is available on their website (via this link).