Ubi-soft publicized that it will buy the cerebral rights to Tom Clancy name. At least rights are rendered to use it to produce video games. Tom Clancy, the writer of books like Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October and the Sum of All Fears. Ubi-soft trades the hit labels using tom Clancy’s name, such as Ghost Recon, Rain box Six and Splinter cell. No comments as in how much Ubi-soft paid to own up rights to Tom Clancy’s name but CNET reports propose that a press release from Ubi-soft reveals they had a net cash of $232 and will have a net cash of $201 million at the conclusion of fiscal 2008 while they had $232 million. The videogame giant will continue to pay Tom Clancy through 2010 as the royalty charges.
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Cards that use to be the initial ever collectible game card series for youth will now allow gamers to purchase full versions of downloadable games from Zapak.com on to their PCs. The first time Gamer may purchase Zapak Game Cards worth 99 rupees and can scratch the card to get the URL for getting registered. You can come across four types of Zapak Game Cards - Pirates, Sci-Fi, Warrior and Magic. If the gamer collects one card, he would receive a game. On collecting three cards of a series he would receive three game cards along with gifts worth Rs. 300/-. If one collects ten card the gamer gets exclusive branded merchandise in addition to the ten games he could purchase with those. Hence, Zapak Game Cards would certainly have an aspiring value for the kids and the trend to have that will put them in the ‘cool’ bracket.
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Many users of the popular BioShock PC game may have experienced problems with the SecuROM copy protection system. This limited the number of installs, causing problems for those who formatted or moved to a new system.
