NEWS
Borderland Skins Come To Battleborn
Look , we ' ve played Battleborn . I ’ ve tried to be charitable to it . But I think we can all agree by now that it ’ s not happening . In what ’ s pretty much a Quixotic move to get people to play the game , they ’ re releasing Borderlands skins for Battleborn . The announcement came at PAX West ; attendees were given codes to unlock the pack when it launches . The skins are as follows : ISIC / Claptrap , El Dragón / Psycho , Alani / Maya , Orendi / Tiny Tina , Caldarius / Maliwan branding , and Rath / Zer0 . Both ISIC and Rath will have matching voice packs . Now Randy just needs to realize that a F2P model is what the game needs to have a higher than 150 player base . As for Borderlands 3 , well , it ’ s supposedly happening . Someday . So far all we have seen of the game is a very brief demo at GDC from earlier this year that served to only highlight the engine Gearbox is working on and not Borderlands 3 specifically . And even if the game was deep in development Thought Project 1v1 , their weird FPS crossed with a card game thing is probably coming first . As for Battleborn and its abysmal user base ( sub 200 at the time on this writing on Steam ) … ummmm …. oh look ! A distraction !
Fallout : New Vegas Mod Project Brazil Gets Rename
The Fallout : New Vegas mod Project Brazil has been in development since 2009 . It ’ s ambitious , boasting a map the size of Fallout 3 ’ s , with over 5000 lines of professional quality dialog by over 20 actors . And , while it ’ s still not out yet , it does have a new name : New California . as explained on the mod ’ s ModDB page : New California is a superior name for this mod . It ’ s opening shot is of California , the intro is all about California , we say California several times in the narration , it ’ s set in California , within New California Republic territory , about the struggles of New California against California factions that impact the New California Republic in New Vegas . Originally started in Fallout 3 , the mod switched over to Fallout : New Vegas shortly after the latter ’ s release . The mod was still a massive undertaking , though . And while it ’ s not out yet , it ’ s supposed to release sometime late this year .
Nintendo Ordered to Pay $ 10 Million in Wii Lawsuit
On August 31 , a Dallas jury awarded iLife Technologies a $ 10 million victory in their patent lawsuit against Nintendo . The suit , first brought forth in 2013 , alleged that Nintendo used their motion sensing technology in the Wii remote . iLife ’ s tech was supposedly designed and patented to detect fallen elderly patients and monitor infants for SIDS . Around the same time as the Nintendo suit , they also sued Fitbit and Under Armour , among others , though possibly those companies settled out of court . iLife sought $ 144 million in damages against Nintendo , along with an injunction against Nintendo ’ s use of the technology . Nintendo alleges that they didn ’ t infringe on iLife ’ s patent , and that the patent was written incorrectly and therefore invalid . Nintendo , as expected , plans on appealing the decision . So it looks like this case is going back into litigation , but it ' s not clear how strong Nintendo ' s case is .
12 GAMBIT | SEPT / OCT | 2017