The World of Warcraft makers has now decided to sue over the registration of the name, claiming that “Valve has no right” over it as “the DotA mark has become firmly associated in the mind of consumers with Blizzard.

This is their official statement:
“In contrast to Blizzard, Applicant Valve Corporation (“Valve”) has never used the mark DOTA in connection with any product or service that currently is available to the public. By attempting to register the mark DOTA, Valve seeks to appropriate the more than seven years of goodwill that Blizzard has developed in the mark DOTA and in its Warcraft III computer game and take for itself a name that has come to signify the product of years of time and energy expended by Blizzard and by fans of Warcraft III. Valve has no right to the registration it seeks. If such registration is issued, it not only will damage Blizzard, but also the legions of Blizzard fans that have worked for years with Blizzard and its products, including by causing consumers to falsely believe that Valve’s products are affiliated, sponsored or endorsed by Blizzard and are related or connected to Warcraft III.”

The case file was submitted on November 16, 2011. You can read it here.

As the game’s title suggests, the box art of the game is somewhat predictable – albeit it looks delicious. It features an Alien and a team of Marines. Voila!

The often-delayed Aliens shooter is bound for an official disclosure sometime in fall 2012. The game is being developed for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

As you can see, to run the game at 1080p @30fps, you will need at least a NVIDIA GTX 460 and a pretty high-end processor, to boot. The website used a top of the range i7-26000K. Even AMD HD7970, which is currently the world’s fastest GPU, seems barely able to scratch past the 60 fps mark.

Is your PC mighty enough to take on this beast of the night? Alan Wake releases on February 16th for the PC.

The number has jumped to $427,272 at the time of writing, achieving its goal in less than a day. Nearly 10,000 fans have donated money for the project – a be super-collaboration between studio head Tim Schafer and Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert.

The campaign will continue until March 13, as originally planned. The extra bit collected will be used to fund company holidays, Schafer’s new Mercedes and a new candy dispenser.

We are just joking. Right, Schafer? Right?

The patch fixes a number of issues, including pesky quests bugs, gameplay glitches and performance degradation. You can find the complete changelog here.

Patch v1.4 is already available on the PC. PS3 version is still stuck in certification.

But then, we have the modding community and they seem to take care of each others needs. An epic armor-clashing, sword-bashing, no-guts no-glory kind of war was in immediate need (apparently) and so a group of modders got together, over some mead maybe, to create just that. They employed 500 Draugr, 200 skeletons and 500 Dwarvens Warriors, through console commands and various mods, and let them loose.

They are calling ‘The Great Battle of Skyrim’. I have no doubt about that.

Mounted combat. Want.

The ideas were revealed by creative director Todd Howard during the DICE 2012 summit yesterday. Howard stressed that they were all “experimental” and he had “no idea if they will be released as DLC”. He further added “maybe, we don’t know”.

The extensive list of DLC ideas are published below (thanks, Wired):

Seasonal Foliage
Flow-based water shader
Spears
Kill Cams for Magic and Ranged Combat
Stealth Enhancements
Guards can relight darkened areas
Paralysis runes
Dungeon enhancements : handing structures and moving platforms
Water currents in dungeons
Dark dungeons
New commands for followers: Combat style, etc.
Set favorite equipment settings for followers
Adopt a child
Build your own home
…with a skeleton butler
Spell combinations: Use flame and raise zombie to create a fire zombie
Goblins
High-level Draugrs
“Waygates” for fast travel
Epic mounts (flaming death horse)
Mounted combat
Dragon mounts
“Soul bug” familiar
Kinect voice-activated shouts
Screen space ambient occlusion
Enhanced underwater visuals
Snow surface
Fat giants
Ice and Fire arrows
Werebear
Lycanthropy skill tree
Vampire Feeding
Become a flying vampire lord
Vampire Imp Minions
Mudcrab animation tweaks
Giant mudcrab enemy

Some of these are already possible with mods, if you are up for that sort of thing (you should be). There are already mods that improves foliage, water effects, and darkens dungeons. I am surprised there is not one that allows mounted combat yet.

Players can “pledge” to back this project with a minimum of $1. Those that can pour in more earn perks, some of them include a dinner with studio head Tim Schafer, an opportunity to become an actual character in the game, a tour of the Double Fine office, beta access, and the best of all, receive an undoctored picture of Rob Gilbert smiling!

Rob Gilbert is, of course, the creator behind Monkey Island series, and who will be lending his creative genius to the upcoming project.

The game is set to release on the PC. The project has collected $211, 778 already. Donations end on March 13.

The open-world actioner is on track for release in the second half of 2012 on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with original developer United Front Games being on board this time collaborating with Square Enix London Studios.

Square Enix picked up the publishing rights of the game from Activision in August. This comes following the publishing giant’s decision of axing the project in early 2011. Obviously, retitling the sandbox shooter was expected considering that Square Enix does not own the True Crime IP.

“From the moment you pick up the controller and experience the blend of driving, close combat and shooting you know you’re playing something fresh and a bit special,” said Lee Singleton, general manager of Square Enix London Studios. “Sleeping Dogs has one of the best melee combat systems out there – it’s super brutal with devastating takedown moves, and when added to UFG’s proven heritage in driving games, a first class story and the vibrant backdrop of the Hong Kong underworld we get a fiery recipe with fun written all over it.”

A wicked live-action trailer has been released to mark the announcement. Check it below.