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A number of game publishers have been hit with a lawsuit from a company that claims the publishers used their software products illegally. California-based Uniloc filed the lawsuit late in July against a number of companies including Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft and Aspyr Media.

Uniloc claims in its lawsuit that the above companies and others used software that violated one of Uniloc's software patents. The software in question registers on one PC so it cannot be copied on other PCs. The company claims the publisher's actions "have caused reparable and irreparable damage to Uniloc." The company is seeking an unspecified dollar number in damages.

[Via GamePolitics]

It's one of the biggest issues in PC games; trying to keep titles from being pirated. While some companies use DRM solutions to "protect" their games from pirates some gamers feel such features actually treat real customers like criminals.

Today 1C Company and Aspyr release Men of War, the first of five games that will ship to stores in the US under their publishing agreement over the next few months. In their press release today announcing that Men of War is now shipping 1C Company announced that the WWII RTS game will not have any DRM solutions. Indeed the other four games being released in the agreement (Death Track: Resurrection, Cryostasis, Necrovision, and 4X4 Hummer) wlll all ship to stores DRM free.

[Via email press release]

We hinted about this news a few weeks ago and now we can finally reveal what we have actually known for some time. Digital Extremes' 2008 console third person action game Dark Sector will indeed have its PC port released in the US via Aspyr Media.

The presence of the PC port was first leaked out earlier this year and was thought af first to be a European only release. However Aspyr Media has let us reveal that the game is indeed coming to US shores and will ship to stores on March 23. You can expect more info on the game when Aspyr makes it official with its press release on Thursday.

Big Download was the first site where you could download the demo version of Puzzle Quest Galactrix and today word has come out that the full retail PC version of the game will ship out to stores on Feb. 24. Publisher Aspyr Media will handle the PC release of the game in the US and will also offer the full version for download via their own game download service Gameagent.com. D3 Publisher will continue to handle the game's distribution everywhere else.

A sci-fi version of developer Infinite Interactive's popular Puzzle Quest game, this new version combines puzzle solving with a sci-fi setting and RPG gameplay features. Again you can download a demo right here on Big Download to give you an idea of what the full game is like.

Last year Aspyr Media released a PC and Mac port of Activision's music-rhythm game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock only a few weeks after the console versions from Neversoft and Activision shipped to stores. Today the publisher announced that Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the stand alone add-on that was released to consoles last June, has now shipped to stores for the PC and Mac.

Just in case you are not familiar with the game, Guitar Hero Aerosmith contains over 40 new songs for Guitar Hero III fans, including 25 Aerosmith master tracks along with other artists like Stone Temple Pilots, Run DMC and others. If you haven't bought the original game you don't need it to play this title. However if you want to buy both Aspyr will ship out a bundle containing both games on November 4.