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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by gamefly Ubisoft abandons the watch dogs trademark a massive space battle commences in EVE Online and Nintendo's newest future venture also we played octodad dadliest catch and check out the week's new releases let's get out of controller hello and welcome out of controller the weekly TechnoBuffalo show that covers all your gaming news reviews demos and new releases in an easy to digest capsule form I'm your host Ashley skele it's always a big week in gaming so let's hit the news some crazy things happening in the world of gaming yesterday morning news broke that Ubisoft had filed for and received an express abandonment of their trademark for watch dogs of course tons of theories then swarmed the internet from watch dogs is getting rebranded as an assassin's creed game 2 oh no UV safa scanning watch dogs but it looks like something even more nefarious is at play here Ubisoft announced this morning the application for express abandonment was fraudulent and they'd made a new filing with the u.s. patent and trade office to get the trademark back it's pretty strange to think this went through without the USPTO or Ubisoft finding out mid process but if I had to pinpoint a likely culprit well obviously everyone this is the work of aiden pearce if you're not familiar with the workings of EVE Online I will try to sum up it is a massive sandbox MMORPG with a very robust economy and some crazy deep game systems last week there was a massive battle and the eve online community blog laid out the crazy timeline of events after a player missed a payment on a system the controlling alliance came to reclaim it but then another alliance came to fight for it the aftermath resulted in around 21 hours of total fighting 7548 unique characters participating 75 Titans those are the games most expensive and time consuming to build ships destroyed and an in-game economic impact of 11 trillion if which by the way could equate to approximately 300 to 330 thousand dollars in real world money whoa Nintendo held a strategy briefing late last week with CEO Satoru Iwata discussing the company's plans for the future he reiterated there were no plans to release games for mobile devices and insisted the 3ds handheld console would drive operating profit next year speaking of the 3d wada said to expect a merging of handheld and home console software in the future he also mentioned an interesting new future venture involving health to be released sometime in 2015 and hinted the device or service could be used quote beyond the living room unquote unlike the fit in fact he said quote I'm sure you're thinking of we fit but this is not like anything we have made before unclipped based on precedent I predict whatever it is it is going to be wacky and people might really love it let's play as a feature on our gaming channel where a member of our gaming staff plays a game and talks about it over the footage this week Joey's playing octodad dadliest catch watch octodad clumsily wobble around and try to keep his octo secret from his wife and kids because you know you want to also it's awesome I gotta take a quick second to thank our friend and sponsor gamefly if you're watching this show you played video games but games are really expensive so how can you enjoy great last and current gen games at reasonable prices gamefly it's the largest online video game rental service with over 8,000 new and classic titles all the consoles all the handheld's and plans start at just 15 95 a month you rent one to four games at a time and you keep them for as long as you like no late fees no due dates free shipping when you're done playing a game just send it back and gamefly ships the next game on your list if you love the game so much you never want to send it back gamefly has you covered you just click keep it on the website and the game is yours at a discounted price case and manuals included Oh fans of the show get a free 15 day trial by heading over to gamefly.com slash TechnoBuffalo don't miss out on playing a new game because you're broke get some gamefly make it happen that's gamefly.com slash TechnoBuffalo it's Tuesday which means new releases some good stuff this week bravely default slams on in hendo 3d s4 you're pulling pleasure and episode 2 of telltale games the wolf among us hits your playstation 3 xbox 360 pc mac and iOS device this week that's it for this week's out of controller feel free to give the show a thumbs up if you enjoyed it no pressure and i'm going to give you two channels for the price of one to subscribe to subscribe to the main technobuffalo channel for all the latest and greatest tech news and you can also subscribe to our dedicated video gaming channel technobuffalo plays for trailers gameplay videos and deeper gaming analysis from our team of experts thanks for watching I'll see you guys next week