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LulzSec, who have claimed responsibility for many of the gaming hacks of late, have announced they’ve had access to Bethesda/Zenimax’s data for a couple of months, and are planning on releasing details today. They’ve been winding up BethSoft all day, threatening to release details of a number of games, including Brink. However, in their usual gleeful way, they are suggesting they’ll go ...read more
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Distributed hacking community LulzSec yesterday set its aim squarely on Bethesda and its online FPS game Brink. The news was delivered via the organisation’s Twitter feed at around 3pm BST yesterday, with a Tweet stating: ‘We were going to keep this little treasure chest to ourselves, but it appears the hand has been bitten. Say your prayers, Brink users.’ This was followed up by a ...read more
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The next version of Windows will be integrated with Microsoft’s Xbox Live. It’s kind of an obvious move for Microsoft, who could be trying to grow Xbox Live from a digital videogame delivery system into a digital delivery system for all kinds of media. Putting Xbox Live inside the operating system that nearly every PC owner uses seems like a good way to help that along. Microsoft ...read more
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Treyarch’s decision of removing quick scoping from the last CoD title – Black Ops didn’t really please fans of the series who had got into a habit of using it to their advantage during multi-player sessions. However, Infinity Ward doesn’t intend to follow on their footsteps and have hinted that the feature might make it to the final build of Modern Warfare 3. IW’s community manager ...read more
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An investment group that counts current Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick as among its members is in talks to acquire the troubled social networking web site MySpace. Reuters reports via unnamed sources that Kotick was approached by the members of the unnamed investment group a number of weeks ago to join their effort to purchase a controlling stake in MySpace which is currently owned by News ...read more
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Kinect is now a very big piece of the Xbox 360 gaming experience. If you saw Microsoft's E3 press conference, chances are that in those few minutes you would have seen an upcoming Kinect title or a new navigational feature that is Kinect-enabled. This was no coincidence. According to Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios, all 360 titles will eventually employ Kinect at some point in the ...read more
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Despite most of the footage we’ve seen so far of Battlefield 3 adheres to the single-player campaign, a lot of people are wondering how long it’ll actually be; not that it really matters since when it comes to the Battlefield series, multiplayer is what it’s all about. However, DICE adding a campaign for a title that was born online have risen some concerns of whether this will affect the ...read more
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The New York Times reports that the Spanish police have picked up three suspects in connection with the PSN hack that brought the network down over the last month and a half. The arrests include one man in the city of Gijón who allegedly had a computer in his house that was used to attack PSN. The same computer was reportedly involved in attacks on Spanish banks and other entities. The other ...read more
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Earlier today, Codemasters’ Community Relations Director Satine made an announcement on their forum to report the following breaches. Codemasters.com website Access to the Codemasters corporate website and sub-domains. DiRT 3 VIP code redemption page Access to the DiRT 3 VIP code redemption page. The Codemasters EStore We believe the following have been compromised: Customer names ...read more
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Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has said the developer isn’t concerned with trying to make the single-player campaign any particular length.“Modern Warfare 3 is big,” Bowling told Gamefront in an interview embedded below. “It has that epic single player campaign and it’s all about taking players places they’ve never been before. “… Our philosophy on the campaign has always ...read more
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