From HipHopDX.com:

In an exclusive story, New York Magazine’s Vulture.com is reporting
that video game production company Gate Five has filed a lawsuit
against Beyonce for breach of contract. The developers are seeking an
award in excess of $100 million dollars. Gate Five say they entered
into a deal to create a “motion-sensing dance video game” with the pop
singer entitled Staypower: Beyonce.

Vulture quotes Gate Five’s summons as accusing Beyonce of “a bad faith
breach of contract so callous that, on what appeared to be a whim, she
destroyed Gate Five's business and drove 70 people into unemployment,
the week before Christmas.” The company refers to Beyonce as Ms.
Carter throughout the document, referring to the singer’s marriage to
Hip Hop titan Jay-Z, whose birth name is Sean Carter.

The suit also describes Beyonce as “too erratic to do business with.”
Requests for comment by Vulture to Beyonce’s management have not been
met. To read the full story, including further allegations from the
summons, head over to Vulture.com.

Rumor has it that the Nintendo Wii will get a major price cut soon.

More from Engadget.com:

Nintendo's miniature white monolith has sold like gangbusters for long
enough that we're wary it'll ever get cheap, but a trusted source
tells us a price cut is indeed headed our way -- and that the Nintendo
Wii will cost just $150 starting May 15th. The timing would make some
sense, given how Nintendo's profits have tanked for a while due to
flagging hardware sales, and just last month Nintendo of America
president Reggie Fils-Aime hinted that the Wii's price might be a
potential variable to change that in an interview with Gamasutra.
Still, we're not fully convinced that Nintendo would announce a price
cut then, rather than, say, at the Electronics Entertainment Expo in
June, and it's not like the company to let this sort of announcement
leak out. Still, if you find a shiny new copy of Mario Kart Wii in a
$150 console bundle this time next month, don't say we didn't warn
you.

Rumor has it that the Nintendo Wii will get a major price cut soon.

More from Engadget.com:

Nintendo's miniature white monolith has sold like gangbusters for long
enough that we're wary it'll ever get cheap, but a trusted source
tells us a price cut is indeed headed our way -- and that the Nintendo
Wii will cost just $150 starting May 15th. The timing would make some
sense, given how Nintendo's profits have tanked for a while due to
flagging hardware sales, and just last month Nintendo of America
president Reggie Fils-Aime hinted that the Wii's price might be a
potential variable to change that in an interview with Gamasutra.
Still, we're not fully convinced that Nintendo would announce a price
cut then, rather than, say, at the Electronics Entertainment Expo in
June, and it's not like the company to let this sort of announcement
leak out. Still, if you find a shiny new copy of Mario Kart Wii in a
$150 console bundle this time next month, don't say we didn't warn
you.

Big Time Gangsta takes the player into the dark and dangerous
underbelly of big city back streets. There they will experience what
it means to run turf-grabbing expeditions, face a slew of shady
characters, recruit their crew, and select their tools of the trade
from a vast selection of deadly weapons.

"Big Time Gangsta has brought 3D to Social Mobile gaming," said
Giancarlo Mori, Glu's Chief Creative Officer. "We are driving higher
production values in all of our freemium games. Big Time Gangsta sets
the new standard with rich, atmospheric graphics, and a wide variety
of missions and interactive gameplay."

Players will be immersed in the richly detailed 3D world of Big Time
Gangsta from the beginning. The ambition to take over the city, one
dangerous block at a time, and epic street battles will keep players
coming back for more.

Big Time Gangsta features:

Assemble Your Crew – You can't get to the big time without a little
help. Choose from some of the most deadly and insane gangstas to back
you up.

Run This Town – Take over an entire city one mission at a time. For
every building, every block, every street – earn the cash you need to
make it to the big time.

Pack Serious Heat – Arm your gang with some of the most lethal weapons
on the streets, from handguns and magnums to powerful machine guns.

The Big Time Gangsta App is available free from the App Store on iPad,
iPhone, and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.>

Thor takes on Ulik, Surtur, Frost Giants and more in the second
trailer for his upcoming video game "Thor: God of Thunder"!

Check out the trailer for the new Captain America video game. Looks
like this will be a HUGE summer for Marvel.

More than 7.5 million players of the popular Facebook game “Car Town”
(www.CarTown.com) can simultaneously expand their virtual vehicle
collections and make a donation to the Japan earthquake and Pacific
tsunami relief by completing an in-game purchase of a new
limited-edition red and white Red Cross ambulance.

Car Town creator Cie Games (www.CieGames.com), a leading developer of
high-quality online social games, will donate 100 percent of the
proceeds from sales of the virtual emergency vehicle to the American
Red Cross and its Japan disaster relief efforts.

“Our hearts go out to the people of Japan,” said Dennis Suggs, chief
creative officer of Cie Games.  “The Car Town Red Cross program is an
easy way for Car Town players all over the world to contribute to the
relief effort.”

Facebook users who play Car Town can collect and customize virtual
cars, build their dream garage and help friends do the same, and race
each other to earn points and bragging rights.  Players perform jobs
to earn in-game currency and experience points.

Donations to the American Red Crosswill be made in two ways.  The
first donation is generated with the purchase of the Red Cross
ambulance.  Once players own the new vehicle, they can send their Red
Cross ambulance on an in-game mission called “Help Japan” to make
further donations.  One hundred percent of the money raised will be
donated to the Japan earthquake and Pacific tsunami relief.

App Store developers Capcom, most known for their Street Fighter
series, have this week announced Street Fighter IV has dropped from
its original price to just $0.99. Even better? – all proceeds made
from Street Fighter IV, March 15 through March 22, will be donated to
the Japan earthquake relief efforts. With this in mind, we find it
hard to grasp why any human being currently reading this wouldn’t want
to.

Click here and purchase their own copy.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/street-fighter-iv/id354655665?mt=8

enowned artist Michel Gagne, Fuelcell Games and Microsoft will be on
hand to premiere Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (ITSP) at PAX East in
Boston, MA, March 11-13, 2011.

Attendees will be invited for the first time to play ITSP.
Co-Creators, Michel Gagne and Joe Olson (CEO, Fuelcell Games) will be
on hand for interaction and discussion. The game, which Gagne and
Olson first discussed in 2007, has been in full scale development
since March 2010 after announcing that Microsoft would be publishing
it to Xbox LIVE Arcade.

"The team behind Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is the most talented,
dedicated, creative, and hard working group I've ever had the pleasure
to work with in my 14 years in the industry. The development team at
Fuelcell Games combined with Michel’s experience in traditional
animation and design has brought a lot to the table and has been a
great learning experience for all involved”, remarked Joe Olson. “I'm
extremely proud and truly blessed to be a part of such a unique and
amazing project. When it is unleashed on the world I strongly believe
it's going to stand out amongst the Xbox LIVE Arcade offerings".

“After working on this project for the past five years, it will be
incredibly exciting to finally be able to share it with an audience”,
said Michel Gagne. “I’m confident that the dedication and love that
went into making Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet will result in a
visually charged experience coupled
with a true sense of wonder”.

In Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, players will experience a
captivating adventure set in a unique, rich and insanely twisted
world, blending exploration, intense shooter action, and
puzzle-solving with gorgeous visuals, and rich story telling in a
Hollywood quality presentation. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet draws
you into an epic journey full of surprises, danger and wonder.

PAX East will be held at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
from March 11-13, 2011 and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet can be seen
at the Xbox booth #850.

From the News Wire:

Activision Blizzard, which makes the Call of Duty and World of
Warcraft series, says it's ditching the franchise because "the
popularity of music-themed video games has faded".

The company is also cutting 500 people from its global workforce of 7,000.

Activision Blizzard has revealed that other games it's cutting will
include True Crime.

The company says music games are expensive to manufacture, between the
licensing fees for the songs and the cost of making the hardware such
as plastic guitars and microphones.

Activision Publishing Chief Executive Eric Hirshberg said: "We simply
cannot make these games profitable based on current economics."

Fourteen different versions of Guitar Hero have been released since
its launch in 2005 including Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero:
Warriors of Rock with celebrity specials from Aerosmith, Metallica and
Van Halen.

The company says a new digital platform called Beachhead will now
focus on the money-making Call of Duty franchise.

Since its launch in November, Call of Duty: Black Ops has smashed
retail records and pulled in more $1 billion (£621.9m) in sales
worldwide.

Last year, Viacom sold the unit behind the Rock Band video games
because it was also losing money.