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A large number of Activision-published gaming sites such as Call of Duty, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Spider-Man: Edge of Time, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Prototype 2, The Quantum of Solace, DJ Hero 2 and Guitar Hero were hacked by a Turkish hacker collective called GrayHatz.
The Hacker News reports that a studi... |
4 February 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Unnamed hackers managed to breach the security measure implemented by EA on its official forum (forum.ea.com) after successfully exploiting a vulnerability they identified in the software that runs the site (possibly a Java app). Voice Of Grey Hat informs that the company’s Marketing Manager Dan Sheridan came... |
2 February 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Security experts came across a large number of websites infected with Trojans, exploit kits and other malicious elements that redirect users to well-known malware distribution points.
Avast Virus Lab identified 60 different websites in the past 30 days, all of them being heavily infected. This is especially dangerou... |
13 January 2012
07:09 GMT |
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Anonymous released a video to reveal their intentions of targeting online game websites that fail to properly protect their customers. To show they’re serious, they already breached a website and leaked tons of information from its databases. “Many users of the Internet actively playing online games, but... |
9 January 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Computer scientists have determined that multiplayer online gamers who have friends who cheat are more likely to become cheaters themselves. So likely, in fact, that the team behind a new study on the issue believes it can create an algorithm to identify them.
In other words, the new research demonstrated that cheat... |
23 December 2011
10:02 GMT |
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After yesterday we’ve learned about the hacking operations that targeted CDSN, leaving 6 million Chinese programmers exposed, it turns out that the programmer community was not the only one affected by a breach. Three other Chinese websites were targeted, from each the hackers leaking the details belonging to m... |
23 December 2011
03:14 GMT |
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After hackers managed to breach their member community portal last week, Square Enix representatives came forward with a statement to reassure their customers that no personal information ended up in the hands of hackers.
When the breach was first discovered, the community website was taken offline since there was a... |
20 December 2011
06:33 GMT |
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Around 15,000 account details belonging to the members of the Seven Sins gaming news website (se7ensins.com) were published in a Pastebin document by a hacker that calls himself NOTJESTER.
The leaked information contains usernames, passwords and email addresses allegedly found in a log file dated June 2010.
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14 December 2011
10:11 GMT |
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English and German speaking Steam customers are advised to beware of a website that allegedly offers an anniversary upgrade. In reality, the site is carefully designed by phishers to steal the login details of unsuspecting users, reports GFI.
“Valve gives to you one of 1000 available Steam-gold-account upgrad... |
6 December 2011
04:52 GMT |
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A new so called Shutdown Law has gone into effect in South Korea which requires operators of online games to block access for those under the age of 16 for a six hour block late at night.Both Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live are under the influence of the new regulations, meaning that ... |
24 November 2011
07:24 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft and twofour54 Abu Dhabi have announced that they have entered into an agreement to open a new Ubisoft development studio in the Gulf state, making it the first time that a major video game company creates a direct presence in the area of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the ... |
26 October 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Publisher Activision Blizzard has revealed that it will not be launching any Guitar Hero powered music simulation title during 2011 and that it was disbanding the business unit linked to the franchise, while at the same time ending development of the open-world game True Crime: Honk Kong, which was being handled by U... |
10 February 2011
08:39 GMT |
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GameStop, one of the biggest retail chains specializing in the sale of video games, has announced that it is buying Kongregate, a gaming community built around social and indie projects that are playable through an Internet browser. All the titles are free to play and the content is delivered via Flash. The company s... |
29 July 2010
02:57 GMT |
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Online games offer a lot of interesting moments. Besides the joy of winning a game based on your own efforts or on the efforts of your team, you also get to experience some unique moments thanks to the other players and their own reactions to the events unfolding in the game. One such “interesting” playe... |
27 July 2009
13:11 GMT |
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The console war has been underway for quite some time, with the top three devices, the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, duking it out for supremacy and for the number one spot in sales. But while the NPD charts show that the Wii's reign is undisputed, don't count out its rivals just yet. Microsoft... |
1 June 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Media Molecule is one of the most acclaimed studios currently active on the market, because it managed to deliver a game that offered a great experience that, in the minds of other developers, couldn't be done. That game is LittleBigPlanet, a title that has made a lot of PlayStation 3 users quite happy. With th... |
26 May 2009
02:57 GMT |
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One of the best Online service solutions, Spb Online, developed by the well-known Spb Software company, is an all-in-one tool that provides users with easy access to news, programs, games, weather, themes and ringtones. Also, the application offers users a mobile TV solution, as well as an integrated online radio. Wi... |
19 May 2009
12:01 GMT |
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The PC platform has, for a long time, been doomed and sentenced to a slow and painful death by a lot of analysts, who predicted that consoles would become the most important platforms in the world for video games. But this is not true, at least according to big video game corporation Electronic Arts, which has... |
14 May 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Most of the titles recently released on gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony have highly emphasized the multiplayer element, with cooperative play for two or four players being offered alongside classic competitive multiplayer. So, it might come as a surprise that the PC is... |
11 March 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market is a pretty big one, which, despite the fact that World of Warcraft dominates it with a massive 11,5 million monthly subscribers, always sees new titles appear almost every month. Space-themed MMOs are quite popular these days, with titles such as EV... |
23 February 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Games can be quite difficult sometimes, as a lot of developers believe that their target audience is already one filled with experienced players that already have reflexes and know how to get past certain obstacles. But because some gamers lack the necessary skill or, far worse, don't want to actually live the t... |
23 February 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Blizzard is one of the biggest game developers out there, being responsible for a lot of iconic franchises like StarCraft, Diablo or the recent runaway success that is World of Warcraft. With over 11,5 million paying subscribers every month, you can definitely be sure that the financial resources of the company can f... |
20 February 2009
02:43 GMT |
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Online games are starting to become one of the most popular types of entertainment out there. We all play or have played various online titles like MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) in order to relax and enjoy ourselves, but it seems that some people become very addicted to them and start negl... |
16 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The big MMOs of our time, like World of Warcraft from Blizzard or Warhammer Online from Mythic, need to re-orient themselves to attract as much of the Chinese market as possible, otherwise they run the risk of becoming irrelevant.A recent study from Interfax China, a business news organization and research group, say... |
7 January 2009
04:15 GMT |
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We have recently seen quite a big increase in online games, which focus on co-operative play and show that a singleplayer mode isn't something mandatory in today's world. Titles like Valve's Team Fortress 2 are extremely popular and will certainly stay that way for quite some time.But Electronic Arts w... |
19 December 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Americans don't spend so much time online anymore. As the summer holidays began for students, and working people are now thinking more and more about where to spend their vacations, the time allocated to navigating the web has decreased by 4% from May to June. 1% less users killed time in front of a computer con... |
22 July 2008
03:34 GMT |
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I-play, the mobile entertainment company, revealed the results of a recently conducted survey which shows that 38% of casual online games customers also play games on their mobile phones and 45% of them would play their preferred online games on mobiles, if they were available. 22% of the respondents said "yes" and... |
30 October 2007
10:03 GMT |
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