In absence of my ability to release a video today owing to internet problems I'll post the script here instead.

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, my name is Natural20 and this is Today in Gaming for the 19^th of July 2011.

In the headlines today:

Zynga is being sued for stealing concept of Farmville

Sony is working on Virtual Reality

Infinity Ward will buy Battlefield 3.

Zynga, the games giant behind facebook game Farmville is being sued by SocialApps for stealing the idea and foundations of Farmville from SocialApps, the guys behind the game myFarm.

According to Patent Arcade Zynga have been accused of copyright infringement, violation of trade secrets breach of written contract, breach of implied-in-fact contract and breach of confidence.

SocialApps claim that Zynga stole the source code for myFarm in May 2009 under the guise of buying up the game.

SocialApps signed a letter of Agreement allowing Zynga to look at the source code. This agreement came in the expectation that any use would be compensated and credit to them. However, once Zynga had access to the code they ceased communication with SocialApps and then released Farmville a month later.

SocialApps have waited to sue owing to the fact that they only formally registered myFarm and its source code with the CopyRight office in June 2011.

SocialApps seek damages in excess of $100,000 as well as all of Farmville’s profits which are well over $500,000.

SocialApps also believe Zynga is using stolen code for games like CityVille, FishVille and FrontierVille.

Zynga currently have nearing a hundred million users on facebook compared to SocialApp’s 17,000.

Develop, speaking to Sony Worldwide Studios’ senior director Mick Hocking have found out that Sony are currently experimenting on a number of games including first person shooters that are to work under a virtual reality framework. Develop noted there were no plans for a product launch right now, with Hocking saying “At the moment it’s just a head-mounted display, the head isn’t being tracked but that’s something we’re doing R&D on.”

However, Hocking was confident that the dream of the 80s was now set to become reality.

"We've now got the power to do it, we've got the screen resolution to do it, we've got the processing power to update fast enough so we can have very immersive experiences on head-mounted displays in gaming in the not too distant future," he said.

Hocking will be talking about Sony’s plans for 3D at the Develop Conference in Brighton this week.

In other news, Capcom has announced the cancellation of Megaman Legends 3, which was set to come out on the 3DS. Capcom say the game failed to meet the “required criteria.” Capcom denied that the cancellation was related to the departure of Keiji Inafune from the company last year.

Inafune was the man behind the creation of Mega Man, and with the cancellation of two megaman games this year Capcom were quick to reassure fans that Mega Man was still important to the company.

Edmund Mcmillen, one half of the illustrious Team Meat has announced a new project, retro PC adventure, the binding of Isaac.

The game is a “Roguelike shooter based on the dungeon structure of Zelda. At its core it controls like Smash TV/Robotron in a randomly generated semi RPG world filled with power-ups, items and special abilities.”

Presently the game has six dungeons over three chapters but Micmilen hopes to expand it to eight dungeons with more than 10 bosses and 42 enemy types.

The game, set to feature unlockable characters, 70 items and tons of other bonuses is set to come out on steam sometime in august.

Final Fantasy XIII-2, the sequel to the controversial Final Fantasy 13 has had its US release date announced. The latest in Square-Enix’s series will come out in January of Next year for Playastation 3 and Xbox360 according to Square’s Twitter Feed. A European release date is yet to be confirmed.

And finally, Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling has spoken to Eurogamer today, stating that he will be buying Battlefield 3.

Bowling has stated that he feels that there is enough of a market for both shooters stating that “I’m very aware that we have two very different audiences and we’re delivering two very good and very different experiences,” he went on to say that the rivalry between the two communities was owing to their passion about the games.

He went on to explain that he feels that EA are mistaken in their assumption that there can be only one winner in this battle saying that “If you are a shooter fan, you should be getting both, because they’re both going to be excellent experiences.”

Modern warfare 3 is due out on the 8^th of November this year, two weeks after battlefield 3.

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