The Supreme Court will hear a case, "American Needle vs. National Football League," regarding the legality of the NFL's exclusive licensing arrangement with Reebok. The SCOTUS will hear arguments in 2009 or 2010.

A ruling against the NFL would jeopardize the NFL's current exclusive video game license with Electronic Arts. Potential exclusive licenses with the NBA and NHL would also be affected by the ruling; both leagues have asked the Court to rule in favor of the NFL in "American Needle."

Congratulations to our approver from the Netherlands: stvedder - he managed to break the first Moby contribution milestone. I must honor him, because he has approved tons of my contributions in the last months!

On May 7, 2009, chirinea posted Will someone tell joyvalley to stop? when the German contributor reached 30,000 points. But apparently no one actually told him to stop. So something happened that is simply unbelievable:

It's now just 45 days later, and joyvalley reached yet another milestone!

We congratulate joyvalley for expanding our database while reaching 40,000 points!

With this speed, no one is safe. Not even Sciere. :P

Who is betting about when joyvalley reaches 50,000? =)

On May 25th, the new console Zeebo, by the electronics Brazilian company Tec Toy was launched. Targeted as a console for emerging economies, the new device has been released only in Brazil, with Russia and China in sight as next markets.

Zeebo works through a dedicated 3G network from where games are released, as it doesn't use cartridges or optical discs. It costs $249 and includes FIFA 09, Need for Speed: Carbon and Brain Challenge, with Quake I, Quake II, and Prey Evil to download for free. All of them translated to Portuguese.

• Google
• Wikipedia: Zeebo, Tectoy
• Youtube

Therefore there is a new platform to contribute, so sharpen your keyboards and be ready for the moment it's added to MG.

Return to Monkey Island

Like the ghost pirate LeChuck, the Monkey Island franchise will be once again brought back to life with two new releases by LucasArts and Telltale Games.

Tales of Monkey Island is the name of the new episodic series being developed by Telltale, a company created by some of the developers of the original games, like Dave Grossman, that returns as the design director for the project. The composer Michael Land, responsible for the famous music of all Monkey Island games, also returns along with Dominic Armato reprising his role as Guybrush Threepwood. The first of the five planned episodes will be available on July 7, with a later release set for the WiiWare service.

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is a high-resolution remake of the classic game, with redrawn graphics, a remastered digital music score and newly recorded dialog, with Armato also providing the voice of Guybrush. As a bonus feature, players will be able to switch between the original game and the new remake on the fly, by pressing a button. The game is being developed by LucasArts, to be released on this summer for PC and Xbox Live Arcade.

The announcement of the new titles prompted Ron Gilbert, the creator of the series, to share some memories from the development of the original game on his blog.

Congratulations to Terok Nor, MobyGamer since 1999: he just pased 10,000 contribution points.

He has been most active in revisions, game release info, company release info and game corrections.

Editor's note: he is also responsible for many game splits and merges, hunting down the infamous "31st of the month release dates", and his contributions are always researched in detail. A well-deserved milestone! -- Sciere

Now, seriously, it was in January 22 that we announced joyvalley reaching 20,000 points (a bit late, as you can read there). So that's it, in three months the guy sums more 10,000 points to that account and reaches 30,000. Seriously, things are getting crazy here in MobyGames these days...

Congratulations, joyvalley! You've already passed LepricahnsGold as top 2009 contributor, let us see for how long!

This guy does an awesome job, and now he blasts away the 20.000 points barrier - congratulations Big John WV :)

• No. 6 ever for adding games - almost 500 so far!
• No. 2 in adding MobyRanks - almost 11.000 so far!
• No. 2 in adding new Ranking Sources

And many other things in which he appears in the Top 25 ever.

Good work!

Just recently, up and coming contributor ALAKA broke into the 10,000 points barrier of Moby. His main area of expertise is in the 16-bit gaming arena, especially the SNES and his main claim to fame is over 3,700 screenshots! There are many a times where I have also added a game and before I can blink he has technical info and product codes already pending. Big congrats to you ALAKA and here's to 10,000 more!

Yippie-yippie-yippie-yuuuuuh

No. 17 in the history of MobyGames - EVIL RYU - overtakes the 30.000 contribution points, big congratz to one of top credits contributors ever :)

For people that never got to play classic arcade games or just don't want to waste their change, arcade games are now available to play on Wii Virtual Console. Four games are now available; these include Gaplus, Mappy, The Tower of Druaga, and STARFORCE. More information is available on Nintendo of Europe's website.

Strong National Museum of Play, the only museum anywhere devoted solely to the study and interpretation of play, is pleased to announce the establishment of the National Center for the History of Electronic Games (NCHEG), dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting electronic games and game forms for future generations. The National Center for the History of Electronic Games houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of electronic game platforms and games in the United States (nearly 15,000 items). For more information visit NCGEG.org.