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In October, THQ allowed customers to purchase the first-person shooter Metro 2033 for half-off for an entire week. Now, it looks like THQ may sweeten the deal on Metro 2033 by giving it away for free, as the release date for Metro: Last Light draws closer and closer. This week THQ appears to have … [Read more...]
Citrix has put a teaser web page online at Cloud.com that says, "A new Cloud is on the horizon". The website invites visitors to sign up for email updates to get a jump on access. Except for the one-page teaser, not much is known about the upcoming update. Cloud.com, which was originally … [Read more...]
Earlier this month Marchex announced it would be splitting into two companies, with Marchex becoming a pure play mobile advertising company and Archeo focusing on a premium domain and advertising marketplace. With the news came the announcement of the company's top 500 domain sales (PDF), one of … [Read more...]
The idea of launching a fantasy league for online battle arena game "League of Legends" has been the subject of many forum messages on LeagueofLegends.com, so the idea is nothing new. But now it looks like a fantasy league is being developed by ZAM Network, a Tencent owned company that operates a … [Read more...]
ZeniMax Media registered several domains this week around the name "store" through the brand protection agency Corporation Service Company. According to WHOIS records, Bethesda Softworks' parent company ZeniMax picked up names like Bethsoftstore.com, Doomstore.net, ElderScrollsstore.com and … [Read more...]
It looks like the folks at PopCap Games have settled on a title to Plants vs. Zombies 2, due out in the Spring of 2013. The company has registered a slew of domain names like GardenWarfare.net, PlantsvsZombiesGardenWarfare.com, and PvZGardenWarfare.com. In August, PopCap Games officially … [Read more...]
While it may be nothing more than a defensive registration to protect its Warcraft brand, Blizzard Entertainment this week registered the domain WarcraftBattles.com. The name had at one time been registered to a Massachusetts man back in 2007, but it expired in 2009 and became available again, … [Read more...]
This is the second dispute over a LoL domain involving porn in some way No graphic adult images or video were ever shown on the site Over 27,000 global monthly searches occur for "League of Legends Porn" In yet another domain dispute involving the 'League of Legends' name, Riot … [Read more...]
Hinting that a possible karaoke title is on the horizon, Activision Publishing has reapplied for its trademark on 'Sing Hero', a trademark it first filed back in 2009. Unlike the old trademark, the new trademark (Serial Number: 85740335) covers computer game software for use on, "mobile and … [Read more...]
Darth Vader was introduced in 1977 when the first of the Star Wars films was released. Now, more than 35 years later, Lucasfilm has secured the rights to the DarthVader.com domain name. As of this week, according to Whois records, the domain name is registered to "Lucasfilm Ltd". For … [Read more...]
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