Mad Catz doesn’t just make peripherals anymore. The company announced this evening that it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to publish games for the Xbox 360. Mad Catz didn’t announce what games it is publishing or which external developers it will work with in this endeavor. At this time, Mad Catz has only announced one game it will publish and distribute.

Interplay and Bethesda have been going back and forth over what Interplay can include in its upcoming (maybe) Fallout MMO. The last time we’ve heard about the matter, Bethesda was calling out Interplay for using Fallout imagery such as Vault Boy and the Fallout logo to promote its MMO. Bethesda alleges it only gave Interplay permission to use the Fallout name in association with the MMO and nothing else. Interplay has now filed a court document explaining the ridiculousness of Bethesda’s claims.

THQ has extended its licensing deal with the UFC’s parent company to create games based on the UFC property. The new deal grants THQ the rights to be the sole publisher of UFC games until 2018. THQ can make games on today’s consoles, and any other platform that may be released within the next eight years.

With today’s technology getting better each year, its no wonder that games like Spore developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts, can wow players and developers alike. In an article posted in the Rocky Mountain News, if EA so chooses, it could license out Spore technology to other interested developers as an “engine…”