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BigPoint and Square Enix Work on Secret Online Project

Video game publisher Square Enix and online game company Bigpoint have announced that they are working on a new project, although neither of the two companies offered any sort of information on what players can expect from it. Phil Rogers, who is the chief executive officer at Square Enix Europe, stated, “We&r...

10 April 2012
14:11 GMT

Mortal Online Hacked, Users Advised to Change Passwords

Star Vault issued a statement admitting that its security was breached for a short period of time on February 19. The hackers that accessed the site’s servers may have already utilized the information they obtained to “destroy in game assets” and make changes to the accounts. A member of the game s...

21 February 2012
09:52 GMT

World of Warcraft Users Accused of Selling Their Accounts in Phishing Email

Emails that bare the subject “World of Warcraft – Account Management,” and threaten users that their accounts will be disabled after they were discovered as trying to sell them, turn out to be part of a phishing scam that targets World of Warcraft (WoW) customers. “It has come to our attentio...

19 December 2011
07:19 GMT

Portuguese Flash Games Website Breached, Customer Data Leaked

Administrators and customers of a Portuguese Flash game site (mygames.pt) had their account details published in a Pastebin document as a result of a hacking operation, reports CyberWarNews. The names of a few hundred database tables that contained user data from the site’s forum and online shop were leaked on...

12 December 2011
06:50 GMT

Tanki Online Enhances Payment Security with Gate2Shop

Tanki Online, the multiplayer action game in which players participate in 3D tank battles, now benefits from the solutions provided by Gate2Shop, the e-commerce services provider, when it comes to securing and handling the online payments made by customers. Since the game that relies on innovative Alternativa3D Flas...

21 November 2011
06:51 GMT

Online Gaming Will Be Worth 20 Billion Dollars in 2012

A new report from ABI Research says that the revenue generated by the online gaming industry will reach 20 billion dollars in 2012, fueled in part by the spread of mobile Internet connected devices that play online games and in part by the development of the genre in the Asia Pacific space. The study is called &ld...

3 January 2011
15:01 GMT

ArenaNet Reveals the Necromancer Class for Guild Wars 2

ArenaNet has announced a new Necromancer class for its upcoming online role playing game Guild Wars 2. The dark wizard will be able to use his enemies' life force to fuel powerful spells and skills and to return in a Death Shroud form when killed. Guild Wars 2 is looking more interesting as days pass by. The th...

26 August 2010
08:01 GMT

Blizzard's Next Online Game Will Be a New Franchise

Blizzard is one of the most popular developers in the world thanks to the great quality of the games it releases and the detailed and complex franchises it holds, like StarCraft, Diablo, Warcraft or the hugely successful World of Warcraft. Even though the company is hard at work on all of these series, it also has a...

14 May 2009
16:51 GMT

Apple Sidelines Humanitarian Effort, Attracts Bad Press

A company developing the first online video game that would allow players to turn in-game winnings into food for starving people has been sanctioned by Apple, and is now faced with sidelining the release. Reportedly, Apple believes the game's name, “Glupod,” bears too much resemblance to the dubbing ...

22 December 2008
03:30 GMT

Battlestations: Midway Fully Ported to Mac

Back in May, Feral Interactive was confirming that Battlestations: Midway was due out for the Mac this summer. In a press release issued yesterday, Robosoft announced that Battlestations: Miday had been fully ported to Mac.The complete version of the game packs around 60 war machines including bombers, battleships, d...

15 August 2008
04:11 GMT

Club Penguin Grows in Australia

Those of you who are hardcore Halo 3 or GTA IV fans probably don't know too much about the social online game Club Penguin, but it seems that most of the kids in the world do and, even more: they just love it! As solid proof stands the fact that Disney is planning to hire a team to manage the operation of the ga...

19 June 2008
16:16 GMT

Freaky Creatures - an Innovative Multi-Platform, Multiplayer Game

CDC Games, a business unit of CDC Corporation, and Abandon Mobile announced a joint venture for the upcoming multi-platform, multiplayer mobile game, Freaky Creatures. Freaky Creatures is the first mobile community-based game of its kind to combine user created content, strategy, simulation and popular trading card g...

12 March 2007
06:08 GMT


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