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Keyboard Cat vs. Keyboard Cat (Credit: Charles Schmidt/Warner Bros Interactive)Sue their pants off, Keyboard Cat.

First uncaged back in 2007, the musically-gifted kitty remains one of the web’s biggest viral hits. But to the owner of the feline sensation’s trademark and copyright, you don’t get to play with “Fatso” for free.

Charles Schmidt is suing Warner Bros. Interactive and game developer 5^th Cell for including Keyboard Cat in the ‘Scribblenauts’ game series without permission, reports Gamasutra. He’s joined in his suit by Christopher Orlando Torres, the owner of fellow cat meme “Nyan Cat,” who also alleges the game used his cash-kitty illegally.

(Credit: Engadget)The Wii U's not living up to Nintendo's sales expectations, and that's causing the company to get a bit...creative...with its marketing plans.

Taking a cue from the viral marketing that works so well in the mobile industry, Nintendo is relying on its own older products to upsell its new system, attaching a blatant marketing message to the most recent Wii system update.

Aliens: Colonial Marines (Credit: Sega)

Aliens: Colonial Marines might have rankled critics, but that’s nothing compared to how it upset fans. And one fan in particular.

Plaintiff Damion Perrine filed a false advertising lawsuit against publisher Sega and developer Gearbox Software Tuesday in the Northern District of California, saying demos of the game shown at industry trade shows and public events were not accurate representations of the game that hit shelves.

Call of Duty: Ghosts (Credit: Activision)The next installment in Activision’s blockbuster Call of Duty franchise is on its way, though you might not see it coming.

On Wednesday, the company announced Call of Duty: Ghosts, the tenth official game in the billion-dollar shooter series. Set for release on November 5, the game will be available for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC as well as next-generation systems.

Halo follow-up, Destiny (Credit: Bungie)How do you follow up a game series that earned more than $3 billion -- a multi-billion entertainment machine in the same league as Star Wars and Harry Potter? That's the challenge facing Halo creators Bungie, now working on a new sci-fi epic, Destiny.

The team are now testing the game's sci-fi world daily -- and the result could “transform” shoot ‘em up games with a new take on multiplayer gaming, according to design director Joe Staten.

The world's first web pageBill Clinton had just taken office. The World Trade Center was recovering from a terrorist bombing in its parking structure. Women were finally allowed to fly warplanes. And the day-to-day habits of the free world was about to undergo a tectonic shift.

On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web as we know it was officially birthed.

Grand Theft Auto V (Credit: Rockstar Games)What's better than a brand new GTA V trailer? How about three?

Rockstar Games has released a batch of trailers focusing on the upcoming blockbuster's troublemaking trio of playable characters.

(Credit: Greenheart Games)Thwarting piracy is a serious concern for game makers, but one developer came up with an inventive -- and hilarious -- way to teach would-be pirates a thing or two.

Greenheart Games, creators of the simulation Game Dev Tycoon, assumed that their new title would wind up on torrent sites as yet another illegal download. Rather than try to avoid this fate, they instead intentionally uploaded a ‘pirated’ copy of the game to torrent sites just as the legit version (available for Windows, Mac and Linux) was going live on their own storefront.