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SAN FRANCISCO — December 12, 2012 —Today, Ubisoft® announced that Assassin’s Creed® III is the fastest-selling game in the company’s history, with total sell-through topping the 7 million mark worldwide just one month after its release.

Fans have wasted no time exploring the game’s open world, and getting involved in the action-packed story. In solo missions alone, gamers have accumulated more than 82 centuries of gaming time and committed more than 3 billion in-game assassinations. The deadly action continues in the multiplayer, where more than twice as many gamers have joined the multiplayer mode compared to Assassin’s Creed Revelations. To date, more than 250 million assassinations have been performed in more than 5 billion multiplayer sessions.

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SEGA has initiated a lawsuit against Level-5. The company feels that Level-5’s Inazuma Eleven games relating to touch interface controls.

After investigating the matter, Level-5 has said that “Inazuma Eleven does not violate SEGA’s patents.”

SEGA believes that the touch interface in the Inazuma Eleven games, which allows users to move characters with the touch pen and stylus, is in violation of two of its patents. But Level-5 argues that the first Inazuma Eleven – released in August 2008 – came out before SEGA received its first patent in 2009. SEGA obtained a second patent in 2011. Level-5 will be taking the position that titles with touch pen controls were made before SEGA filed its patents.

Level-5 said:

“As a result of examining these discrepancies, we’ve concluded that there is no patent violation. While Inazuma Eleven does not violate Sega’s patent, we do recognize that Sega’s lawsuit could restrict choices in gaming from here on out as well as hindering the growth of the game industry.”

Level-5 added that the lawsuit makes the company “uncomfortable”. It plans to fight the lawsuit in court.

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Cloudberry Kingdom is still without a final release date, but it has received a new launch month. Wii U owners can expect the game to hit the eShop in March.

Alongside Cloudberry Kingdom, Pwnee Studios is working on a brand new project.

The studio teased:

“In the meantime we are already under way developing a new game! No title yet, but concept art and game-play is being designed as we speak, and we will be launching a Kickstarter campaign very soon to help fund our development.”

Might this new title land on Wii U as well?

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Remember to read from bottom-to-top… and right-to-left!

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After attempting to register his 3DS XL, NeoGAF member “thewesker” was told by Club Nintendo that he would not be provided with a survey or coins. Apparently the first eight systems you register are eligible… and then you’re out of luck.

The strange thing is, other members have indeed been able to successfully register and earn coins for more than eight products. Could this be a new regulation? Maybe the situation is related to the recent Club Nintendo issues?

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In Japan, Level-5 registered a trademark for something called “Spaceship Damrey”.

This is just speculation at this point, but could it be another mini-game inclusion in Guild02? Three titles have been confirmed for the collection thus far: Insect Tank, Alone, and Monsters Appear on Friday.

Spaceship Damrey could very well be the final one…

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SEGA has filed a lawsuit against Level-5 for its Inazuma Eleven soccer games. Specifically, SEGA isn’t pleased with games’ functionality in which players can move character with their finger or touch pen.

It’s possible that the company’s Football Manager franchise has come in to play. SEGA may feel that Level-5’s series is in conflict with its own soccer management simulations. Officially though, SEGA hasn’t confirmed that this is the case.

Kotaku reports that opening arguments were heard on December 7. SEGA is looking for ¥900 million (US$11 mil) in damages, and is looking for the sale of all eight Inazuma Eleven games to be stopped.

Speaking about the lawsuit, Level-5 said:

“We are preparing our rebuttal and do not have any comments to make at this time.”

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Street Fighter X Mega Man is just the start of Capcom’s plans for the Blue Bomber’s 25th anniversary.

News will begin to arrive on December 17. That’s a pretty good date for announcements, given how the series will have made its debut 25 years ago on that very day.

The first round of news will only apply to “the start of the celebrations”. More news will be shared next year.

According to Capcom’s Christian Svensson:

“I don’t know that there’s more substantial for me to talk about but there’s a TON more things we have in the works, only some of which will be shared on December 17th. There’s a whole year of things that will happen… you’re only going to hear about what’s happening fairly close to the start of the celebrations at first.”

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Nintendo Everything reader Pie has informed us of issues he’s having on Club Nintendo. He’s been trying to register an eligible product on the site, but things aren’t working properly.

Here’s what Nintendo customer service said about the situation:

Thanks for writing. I appreciate your contacting us regarding the Coin issue you experienced when registering eligible products via Club Nintendo. Our site should be operating normally within the next couple of days, so I ask that you please check back. If the situation continues after the next 2-3 days, we will contact you again to let you know. You have our most sincere apologies for any inconvenience this matter may have caused you.

Periodically, our website may experience technical problems or maintenance issues. When this occurs, you can be assured that we are hard at work getting the site running properly as quickly as possible.

I wouldn’t worry about this too much. If you’re having issues, I imagine things will be fixed before the end of the week – just like Nintendo said.

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G4 is no more. The channel will be rebranded as the Esquire channel in the first half of 2013.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that when the new channel launches, it will broadcast programming such as cooking, travel and fashion. Gaming content will be shown as well.

With the move, Esquire parent Hearst Corporation is looking “to capture a growing, upscale demographic that isn’t being reached through other male networks, including adrenaline-heavy Spike and History.”

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