Apple applies for trademark protection on gaming devices

Via Engadget

We're not gonna read too much into this just yet, but when everyone's favorite fruit-flavored consumer electronics company files to protect its trademark as it relates to a wide range of gaming devices, well, we feel you'd want to know. The USPTO sleuths over at Trademork just gave us the heads up on this recently-filed application from Cupertino, which requests protection of the word "APPLE" for products that classify as "toys, games and playthings, namely, hand-held units for playing electronic games; hand-held units for playing video games; stand alone video game machines; electronic games other than those adapted for use with television receivers only; LCD game machines; electronic educational game machines; toys, namely battery-powered computer games." And come to think of it, we did see Apple file for a videogame-related patent not too long ago, so who knows: perhaps the iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV will soon have even more friends among the company's ever-expanding non-PC ecosystem. Then again, we've heard this rumor in one form or another countless times before, and right now pining for a resurrected Gizmondo is already giving us enough headaches.

Remember the Apple Pippin? I remember that it sounded pretty cool back in the day. If Apple does make the leap into the video game market it could make things pretty interesting.

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Amazing CoD4 Flashbang Headshot

In a world where someone gets a headshot kill with a flashbang on their PC version of CoD4.

Zero Punctuation: Call of Duty 4

I've been a big fan of Zero Punctuation for awhile now, and I've wondered if he'd ever get to CoD4, so I was pumped to see this.

Mass Errect err. Mass Effect DLC inbound

I know a lot of people were disappointed with some elements of Mass Effect I still think it's a decent game. Don't get me wrong, it's not game of the year by any stretch of the imagination (sorry R080T), but it does have a compelling storyline and a strange draw to it. AKA, hot blue chicks.

Anyways, today Bioware announced the first download content information to the masses. Get it MASSes, I digress. Here is the post from Bioware's Community Coordinator, Chris Priestly.

To date, over 1.6 million gamers have explored the engaging sci-fi universe of Mass Effect. Beginning on March 10, fans everywhere will be able to expand the “Mass Effect” experience with the release of the first ever downloadable content for the award-winning saga.

The Bring Down the Sky downloadable content pack will be released to Xbox LIVE Marketplace on Monday, March 10 at 2 a.m. PST, and will be available for 400 MS points. This is the first in a series of planned downloadable content that further expands the Mass Effect universe and continues the adventures of Commander Shepard and the Normandy crew.

Bring Down the Sky includes a new uncharted world that introduces the notorious and feared alien race of the Batarians. A Batarian extremist group has hijacked a mobile asteroid station in the Asgard system, setting it on a collision course with the nearby colony world of Terra Nova. Only Commander Shepard can save the millions of innocent civilians before the asteroid completes its deadly descent.

Bring Down the Sky contains approximately 90 minutes of heart-pounding action and a new Achievement worth 50 Gamerscore points.

How to spot a Falcon 65nm 360 in the wild

Thank goodness I'm not in the market for a new Xbox 360, but I thought that this article could be beneficial to those of you who maybe looking for a new one. It seems pretty easy to pick out, without opening the box. Let's hope that the new chip-sets are more reliable than their older counterpart.

New Call of Duty 4 DLC to release this Spring... Wait, WTF?

According to Xbox 360 Fanboy, new download content will be released via XBLM starting in the spring. The download content will consist of "a few new multiplayer maps." I was hoping to see some DLC sooner rather than later, but it looks like we'll have to wait just a bit longer. There was no word in the article about the bug patch that was supposedly to be released before the end of last year, we'll probably have to wait for that too.