Watch Dogs is a game that a lot of people are looking forward to, so when it was delayed it upset a few people who already had it on pre-order. Rumours about it being cancelled on the Wii U caused more waves and those waves might have had a part of play in this latest incident related to the game, strange as it seems.

It seems that someone claiming to be Ubisoft submitted a Request for Express Abandonment for the trademark on the ‘Watch Dogs’ name to the US Patent & Trademark Office, supposedly signed by the Ubisoft Chief Executive Officer Yves Guillemot. The only problem? Ubisoft says they never submitted this request.

Ubisoft Entertainment submits this Petition to the Director under Trademark Rule 2.146 to prevent the abandonment of Application Serial No. 85642398. A fraudulent Request for Express Abandonment was recently filed in connection with Application Serial No. 85642398.

 

Facts

On February 1, 2014, Ubisoft Entertainment received an email from TEAS@uspto.gov notifying Ubisoft Entertainment that a Request for Express Abandonment had been filed in connection with Application Serial No. 85642398. The Request for Express Abandonment purports to be signed by the Chief Executive Officer of Ubisoft Entertainment, Yves Guillemot.

Mr. Guillemot, however, did not sign the Request for Express Abandonment, nor did Ubisoft Entertainment file the Request for Express Abandonment. The Request for Express Abandonment is fraudulent and was not filed by Ubisoft Entertainment or its representative

Ubisoft say that they are now working with the USPTO to reinstate the trademark and that it should once again be active in the coming days, reassuring the players who have been disappointed once before with a delay that this shouldn’t cause any further delay on the game’s release.

Makes you wonder who would go to so much trouble though to try and remove the trademark from Ubisoft, and why. It’s a lot of effort to go to for the sake of a trolling attempt…

The ESRB’s content description for Dark Souls include details about the game’s bosses.

*WARNING! Potential spoilers ahead!*

One of the best parts of Dark Souls is that terrible moment when you get your first look at a boss. You’ll turn a corner or enter a new area and suddenly find yourself face-to-face with some unthinkable creature that you can just tell outclasses you in every way possible. More often than not, this moment will only last a few seconds (long enough to die), but it’s a wonderful sort of dread that other games frequently struggle with.

That in mind, the ESRB recently released some content descriptors that could potentially spoil that feeling for Dark Souls II. In addition to describing the game’s “dungeon-like setting” and “fantastical enemies,” the group’s descriptors also includes some specific details about the game’s bosses. Among the spoilers is “a giant snake boss holding its severed head,” a “boss creature composed of hundreds of corpses” and a “partially topless” boss character with “hair barely covering [her] breasts.”

Now, to be fair, these aren’t the worst spoilers we’ve ever seen, even from the ESRB itself. Likewise, chances are there aren’t going to be too many Dark Souls fans flocking to the group’s website to check and make sure the game is age appropriate. That said, you really do have to wonder if there could perhaps be ways for the ESRB to be a tad more discerning in what it reveals about the games it rates. Granted, we could also just not report about it, but clearly that’s not going to happen.

Well the explosive new trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier just released

Check it out below!

What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!

Smashdate! #2 and a returning favorite is causing some controversy among gamers (not to mention among us) so in this smash date we will take a look at the contender and also some of the stages that you’ll be using to smash your friends into the floor.

The Fighters Return:

Lucario

This puppy ain’t rolling over for no one; Lucario is back for a second round his Aura powers make him an odd beast to tame. In Brawl Lucario made his appearance to mixed review due to: 1. Replacing MewTwo in the roster and 2. His peculiar fighting mechanic where the higher damage percentage Lucario Suffers the harder he hits back. Now this is great for someone like me who’s main brawling strength is his uncanny and somewhat frustrating ability to stay on the stage regardless of damage. So for me Lucario can pack a massive punch but needs alot of time to build up his power. But my god when you hit the 200%+ mark and set off an aurora beam shit will hit the fan.

Now obviously Lucario’s announcement has come with a bitter sweet taste as a lot of Brawler were looking forward to getting to play as MewTwo again after the release of X and Y. But all hope is not lost we still have a way to go and a load more characters to see.

What do you guys think MewTwo vs. Lucario sounds pretty cool right?

The Stage is Set:

Animal Crossing

This stage appears to be set on a floating platform above the Town of Animal Crossing. The stage appears mostly flat with a stage area at the rear for the games cameo character like KK Slider. It looks pretty similar to the Brawl Stage so should be a pretty simple stage to get to grips with.

Willey’s Stage

Set outside Dr. Willey’s Castle Megaman’s home turf is shaping up to be a good choice for brawlers with very flat ground and not a lot of distractions. In most screen shots you will clearly see Yellow devil now I’m hoping this is due to the adventure mode as having Yellow devil flying round the stage will cause havoc with Brawlers. It’ll make for a fun stage but not a fair fight.

The Stadium

A boxing ring is always a safe bet for a fair high impact fight, the lack of a drop off does make this stage allot more interesting than it initially appears. This means that contenders will really have to rack up the percentage in order to perform vertical and O.B. Smash kills

Skyloft

Everyone’s favourite Zelda game makes an appearance in this instalment, now I know Skyward Sword may have left an odd filling with classic Zelda fans but damn if it wasn’t pretty. The screenshots don’t show allot of the actual stage bar the different angles of the back ground meaning the main stage must be moving … Beadles airship anyone.

So that’s your Smashdate! For now please remember to let me know your hopes for the Smash game in the comments below.

So whilst you all go back to your normal lives I’ll just be sat here hoping to catch a faint whiff of Garlicy goodness (he has to be out there somewhere I shall keep believing)

Sony came under harsh criticism today after it emerged that a couple managed to broadcast a 20-minute live sex session via a ‘chatroom function’ on the new PlayStation 4.

The man and woman, believed to be Russian, were seen having sex on the PS4’s Playroom feature – which allows gamers to use a built-in webcam to communicate with each other.

It is meant to encourage users to share their gaming sessions with people all over the world and the Playroom broadcasts can been seen by people of any age using the console’s service.

This week, Playroom for PS4, which does not have a filter for unsuitable content, was used by one couple to broadcast a seedy 20-minute sex session.

The pair, believed to be somewhere in Russia, performed a multitude of sex acts which were viewed by more than 1,000 people – some of whom commented on the on-going action.

Since its launch last November, more than 4.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles have been sold worldwide.

One of the people who saw the footage was Tristan Holtby-Smith, 34, a Gregg’s manager of Poole, Dorset.

He turned on his PlayStation at about 8am on Monday morning – and the video appeared on the Playroom’s ‘most popular’ section.

Mr Holtby-Smith said:

I often go to the Playroom on my PlayStation when I don’t have much else to do, because you quite often find funny people or gaming sessions there.

But when I turned on the system, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was so shocking. The Playroom is really a children’s game.

Some guy and his girlfriend, I think they were Russian because the zoom button was in Russian, were naked and going at it like rabbits.

There were more than 1,000 people watching them have sex, and I would bet that some of those viewers were under 18.

Once you’ve signed up for Playroom, you don’t need to verify your age, so anybody could have been watching it.

It went on for so long as well, at least 20 minutes. It just goes to show that nobody at Sony is paying attention to what is being broadcast.

The Playroom is a game that comes with every PlayStation 4 console, which allows users to broadcast themselves to other PlayStation users over the internet.

Players can leave comments or send messages to each other, which are shared along with the video stream by a third-party company.

While the service does require a one-off payment, once that has been set up, there is no filter in place to restrict explicit content.

The couple, who went by the online handle g12051992, received more than 150 comments from the thousand people watching their 20-minute lovemaking session.

Tristan said:

There were definitely children watching that. People of all ages play consoles, and since there was no age filter, there was no way that that could be avoided.

It was one of the most watched streams at that time of day. The comments were almost as disgusting as the sex.

The couple were loving it – they kept looking at their TV screen and smiling. At one point she adjusted the camera so people could get a better look.’

Porn causes harm to all of us, including those who have never seen any, on many levels.

Claire Perry, Tory MP for Devizes, who has campaigned for censoring explicit content online, slammed the broadcast.

She said:

Dear God, this is terrible – and yet another example of why we can’t be too vigilant.

Heike Diaferia, Executive Director of Stop Porn Culture, agreed, criticizing Sony for making such explicit content available, even if the broadcast is moderated by a third party.

She said:

Since the beginning of the internet, severely damaging hardcore pornography has always been accessible to children of all ages.

Certainly, the disturbing live streaming in The Playroom, which is supposed to be a safe game for kids, adds a new layer to what’s already available.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe spokesperson David Wilson said: ‘The PlayStation4 system is designed to help gamers share their game play through popular social channels. It is unfortunate that some individuals may abuse this feature and share inappropriate content.

He added that within the PlayStation 4 system is a way of setting up parental controls that bans certain people using the console from accessing any user-generated content, such as online messages or video streams.

He explained that the content being shared by users of the Playroom is moderated by Californian-based company uStream.

Just days after the PlayStation 4 was launched last year, one gamer hit the headlines when he stripped his drunk wife during a live-streaming event.

The man was banned after exposing his wife’s breast before taking off all her clothes in front of thousands of watching gamers.