So, North American Bitmob users, are you ready for some football? As a special treat, This Week in Video-Game History is sprinkled with some sports game entries. Of course you'll probably be reading this after you watch the Super Bowl....

February 6

1968: Akira Yamaoka is born. He is an astounding composer who wrote the spookier soundtracks for the Silent Hill series. He left Konami in 2010 to work with notable game designers Goichi Suda (Killer 7 and No More Heroes) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil) at Grasshopper Studios.

Strange fact: Yamaoka went to Tokyo Art Academy for interior design.

February 7

2006: EA released Arena Football in direct competition with Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed.

February 8

2005: Shaman King: Legacy of the Spirits is released for the Game Boy Advance.

2005: Ubisoft signs with DIC Entertainment to license their Trollz cartoon for video games. Trollz is basically Bratz but with...trolls. How's that for creating positive portrayals of women?

2006: PopCap hires Greg Carnessa as their vice president of video-game platforms. Before this, Carnessa served as Microsoft's GM of Xbox Live Arcade.

February 9

1982: Walter Day releases the International Twin Galaxies Scoreboard. Day is the founder of Twin Galaxies.

2005: Hasbro announces their interest in making educational games. Their Playskool kit used the same technology found in Sony's EyeToy.

February 10

1995: Iron Commando: Koutetsu no Senshi debuts on the Super Famicom. Commando Jack and kung fu master Chang Li team up to save the world from gunslingers, knights, and punks -- you know, the world's most dangerous street gangs.

2003: MadCatz and Fire International respond to a suit filed against them by Pelican. All three companies manufacture off-brand gaming accessories. Pelican sued the other two accusing them of competing unfairly. MadCatz and Fire International denied the accusations and threatened to file counter-suits. Pelican eventually dropped theirs.

February 11

1990: James “Buster” Douglas KO’s Mike Tyson. This monumental defeat granted him his very own game on the Sega Genesis called Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing.

2002: Immersion Corp. files a suit against Sony and Microsoft for patent infringement. Immersion had a patent on "haptic technology" that boils down to the rumble feature in most controllers. Microsoft settled out of court, but Sony continued to fight. They ended up losing and coughing up $82 million for the rumble feature in dualshock controllers. Shortly after the suit, Sony also announced that they were removing vibration from PS3 controllers claiming it interfered with sixaxis functionality.

Several analysts cite this lawsuit as the reason Sony removed rumble in the first place.