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blackberry live canceled nintendo's new Wii U commercial last gen gaming goodness for 2014 and Amazon's holiday delivery apology it's about Fogelson time hello internet and welcome to the Buffalo bulletin where we recap five major stories from our site TechnoBuffalo calm every tuesday and friday if you're interested in reading more about any story on the show check the description below for links or click on the graphics if you have annotations toggled on and available I'm Ashley sceva here your top stories Google finally got sick of being pushed around and filed a lawsuit against rockstar the patent holding consortium jointly owned by Apple Microsoft blackberry Sony and Ericsson in 2012 rockstar purchased a portfolio of nortel patents and have used them to launch a barrage of lawsuits against Google and other android oems some argue that Google should have purchased the patents so Margie that Rockstar is bullying Android I'm arguing the patent system is completely out of control but nobody important seems to agree with me blackberry served up more bad news this week officially canceling their blackberry live 2014 conference the official reasoning is blackberry wants to try a new strategy involving smaller shows around the world as opposed to one big show in addition blackberry co-founder Mike Lazaridis sold off 3.5 million shares of the company announcing he's no longer interested in regaining control of blackberry la cerita says lack of confidence in BlackBerry's future has got to sting a little for the folks up in waterloo in gaming nintendo is attempting to win consumers over with a new Wii U commercial sales have been exactly what Nintendo hoped they would be for the console but there's a general consensus that it suffers from confusing messaging so this new ad hopes to make it crystal clear that the Wii U is a new console with unique functions great titles and is a totally separate system from the original Wii the announcer even says just look for the you on the box suggesting even intend o realizes the consoles name might be too similar to its predecessor also in gaming our own Ron dwells got a write-up on why you shouldn't throw out your ps3 or xbox 360 just yet 2014 still has some stellar titles heading for last gen consoles persona 5 south park the stick of truth murdered soul suspect and more I'll make the list of games were planning on playing next year on our PlayStation 3's and Xbox 360s anyone who didn't get a next-gen console a season will definitely feel better after reading our list lastly our wild card story for the day have some good news some bad news and some other good news amazon reported a record setting number of signups for their prime services holiday season with the site shipping enough items through prime to deliver at least one gift to every household in America the bad news the sergeant last minute online ordering combined with the shorter shopping time frame this year have left some folks with delayed packages and missed deliveries for the holiday but Amazon is at least owning up to some of that responsibility and have issued twenty dollar gift cards to affected customers so I guess that's nice that's the Buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoyed the show a thumbs up would be super awesome of you and if you want more great TechnoBuffalo video content please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you guys next time