Corvo, the star of Dishonored, is a deft man with a blade. He can leap, and sneak, like a cat. Dude even has magic powers. You'd think, then, he could do anything and everything, but no.

This clip, showing him trying to pour a pint, is heart-breaking. Won't someone just pour it for him?

Corvo wants a nice, cold beer [YouTube]

So Nintendo is here to help.

Perhaps wanting to get out in front of holiday season returns, when Little Johnny furiously explains he wanted a 3DS and not a DS (or your grandmother buys you a game that won't work in your system), Nintendo has—hastily, judging by the sound quality—put together this instructional video outlining the differences between the three handheld systems it currently has on the market.

Now all they need is to make one for the Wii U and they'll be set.

Collecting nearly 2000 Star Wars action figures the hard way would have taken thousands of dollars and decades of work. The easy way is to let someone else do it, then buy their collection straight off them.

If that's more your style, the Star Wars museum at Rancho Obi-Wan are auctioning off a lot of 1950 figures, a tally that constitutes "nearly every Star Wars action figure ever produced... (100% of the 1978-85 series is here, and nearly every subsequent figure produced to early 2011)".

The market value of such a collection has been valued by an expert at over $8000. If that's not enough to get you bidding, know that the funds will go to help keep Rancho Obi-Wan—a not-for-profit establishment—running. Oh, and that they all used to belong to Fon Davis, a former model-maker at ILM who's worked on six Star Wars movies (the prequels and the original re-releases).

You can see some money shots of some of the figures in the gallery above.

Star Wars The Ultimate Action Figure Collection Lot 1,950 Loose Figs From Book [eBay, via neatorama]

While it seemed unlikely, there was always the chance, however remote, that a battle of patents between Microsoft and Motorola could have seen the Xbox 360 taken off store shelves.

A US judge, however, has ruled that this won't be happening.

The two companies have been fighting for years, with Motorola saying the Xbox 360 infringes upon five patents it holds, mostly related to video codecs.

Saying that the technology was " critical to industry standards", and that Microsoft had agreed to pay for their use (the battle was over how much Microsoft should be paying), Judge James Robart said any financial dispute could be settled at the end of the pair's case, with no Xbox 360 ban necessary.

So, nothing more to see here. Move along.

Motorola fails to win Xbox ban in US and Germany [BBC]

It's fun enough to walk down the street, but you know what's probably more fun? Walking down the street in a huge animatronic T-Rex costume, as demonstrated in this video from Roman Atwood.

Aw, look at the doggies run.

This looks to be the same costume we caught at New York Comic-Con, made by KHA Entertainment. Fun for cons, and for real life!

How's everyone out there doing? Having a good week? Anyone pick up Far Cry 3 today? Don't you think this game would be awesome if it had some dinosaurs, Jurassic Park-style?

Feel free to discuss that stuff or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. See ya tomorrow.

(Via Patrick Klepek)

Proving that professional gamers can be no different to the casual players of the same game, League of Legends pro Christian Rivera has been banned from the game for "persistent toxic behavior".

While the game's Tribunal recognises that "the decision to impact someone's career is not one we make lightly", they've been left with little choice, as Rivera—who played as IWillDominate—was a serial offender, having fronted the game's in-house authorities a whopping nine times, resulting in eight charges.

LoL's Tribunal says that his behaviour was so bad, in fact, that in terms of his "harassment score" within the game "he ranked at the top of the list of North American pro players and among the worst 0.7% of all North American players."

What made him such a hassle to play against? Seems he "has a persistent record of in-game harassment, verbal abuse, offensive language and negative attitude".

The final verdict in his ruling, which has been approved by developers Riot Games, reads:

His persistent tendency to engage in verbal abuse and insults, his lack of cordial demeanor, and his treatment of less-skilled players is unacceptable for any player, especially a high-profile professional player who has a regular opportunity to lead the community by example.

Tough moves, you might think, but then the one thing holding League of Legends back more than anything is the reputation of its playerbase for being, well, toxic. If developers Riot want to start making examples of people, especially those who should be leading "by example", this is exactly what's going to start happening.

IWillDominate Tribunal Permaban & eSports Competition Ruling [League of Legends]

Perhaps it's not surprising, but what this video from The Clan of the Grey Wolf reveals is that much of the tech behind the Wii U's GamePad is stuff you may already be familiar with—only used in a clever, innovative way.

As the video points out at the start, this seems to be a thing with Nintendo hardware, where they use proven tech to create something completely new.

What I like best about this video is that it dives deep into technical things, but does so in a remarkably approachable way.

It's cool that Christopher "McLovin" Mintz-Plasse is in Far Cry 3, though perhaps funnier that the poor kid is doomed to be called "McLovin" for the rest of his life. I mean I still call Sean William Scott "Stifler" even all these years later.

(Side note: Did you know that Stifler's insult for Finch in American Pie was "Shitbreak" and not "Shitbrick"? Because Finch had to go home to take a dump. I had NO IDEA this was true, I always thought it was shitbrick. Which is way funnier, in my estimation. Shitbreak is terrible. Anyway. The more you know.)

Er, okay. So this video from Gamefront shows how to track down McLovin, who also starred in the game's goofy promotional web series. If you find him, you'll earn the the "Say Hi to the Internet" achievement.

Far Cry 3: Say Hi to the Internet Achievement Guide [Easter Egg] [Gamefront]

Wii U users, there's a new firmware update available for your system. Clocking in at around 600MB, it doesn't appear to do anything drastic (like speed up loading and menu times). Here's what Nintendo says it does do:

Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.

Ok then!

UPDATE: Here's a friendly reminder from Nintendo

Summary of System Software Versions [Nintendo]

I've never been one of those people that considers shopping "fun." I shop because it's necessary, because I need something. If gamification has taught us anything though, it's that all it might take for something to become fun and interesting is to make it a game.

In this case, a start-up called Little Black Bag launched a service that puts a twist on the Japanese idea of fukubukuro. Fukubukuro is a custom where merchants sell fun-bags that contain the prior year's clothes and shoes—at a steep discount. It's not uncommon for people to trade, too.

Little Black Bag is like that, only you know what's in your bag. When you sign up, you can save your preferred brands as well as take a quiz that determines your personality. You then pay a flat fee for your 'fun bag', and the items you get you are free to trade. Wired reports that this set-up makes the service more like a game than anything else.

Little Black Bag is not your typical flash-sale e-commerce site. It's part online community, part online store. Murillo likens Little Black Bag to a "massively multiplayer online shop," with more similarities to Farmville than discount e-retailers Gilt or Rue La La.

Unsurprisingly, players shoppers will aim for items that they know will trade well, even if they don't actually want them. And, like you might expect with a game of this sort, there's badges to earn and other such social elements.

Granted, as interesting as this is to me, Little Black Bag doesn't really feature the type of stuff I'd buy. But I could see myself participating if this idea expanded to other types of digital storefronts. Steam lets you do something similar, and that's really sweet.

Image Credit: Wired

Massively Multiplayer Online … Shopping? It's Real, Addictive and Brutal [Wired]