A man in Hawaii (US) is suing NCsoft, the creators of the popular Lineage and Lineage II, claiming that, because of his addiction to the game, he can’t function properly in his everyday life and that even taking a bath or getting dressed is a problem for him.

He believes NCsoft was irresponsible by not warning him appropriately about how the game could become so addictive. So, obviously, he believes the company has to pay.

As part of the promotion for the upcoming sequel to Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft is presenting a short film based on the characters from the game.

The film is divided in three chapters and will serve as an introduction for the story in Assassin’s Creed II.

The film is called Assassin’s Creed – Lineage and takes place a few years before the setting of the game. Each of the three episodes will follow the father of Ezio – the protagonist of the new game- who is introduced as Giovanni Auditore da Firenze in the first chapter.

I’m always looking for new games to play, especially those that offer to be the most challenging. While browsing through my usual forums I saw a a post that read, “My cousin and I created a game company,” on Women Gamers. Curiosity led me to New Lineage Games, a new independent game company based in Tampa, FL, who recently released its first game Catalyst.

Catalyst is a variation on a traditional solitaire card game using a high score method. It’s nothing like the solitaire games most of us are used to. Instead of matching like colored suits or separating them into like suits this is played by selecting 3 cards from one column whose face value totals 10, 20 or 30. All face cards are worth 10 points, Aces are worth 1, and Jokers are wild (but you don’t gain any points for matching with jokers). The goal of the game is to remove all of the columns from play.

I talked to programmers Paul and Jamie Belanger from NLG to find out how they came up with and created Catalyst…