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Monday 12 November 2012

NBA 2K13 dunks on October U.S. retail sales

NBA 2K13 dunks on October U.S. retail sales:

Overall retail sales are down 25 percent from October of last year, though NPD projects growing momentum for the holidays...

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Guardians of Middle-earth out December 4

Guardians of Middle-earth out December 4:

Soon you'll be able to holler at Gandalf to stay in his lane and berate Arathorn for feeding Sauron's legions with his mortal flesh...

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Silicon Knights must recall, destroy X-Men Destiny and Too Human

Silicon Knights must recall, destroy X-Men Destiny and Too Human:

Silicon Knights' 2007 suit against Epic Games has brought about some disastrous financial and technical ramifications for the developer...

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Silicon Knights must recall, destroy X-Men Destiny and Too Human

Silicon Knights must recall, destroy X-Men Destiny and Too Human:
Silicon Knights' 2007 suit against Epic Games has brought about some disastrous financial and technical ramifications for the developer...
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Black Ops II: Don’t want to get banned? Then don’t do any of this...

Black Ops II: Don’t want to get banned? Then don’t do any of this...:
No glitching. No boosting. No offensive emblems. Treyarch’s security and enforcement policy for Black Ops II detailed...
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Valve confirms next-gen Source engine exists and is just 'waiting for a game to roll it out with'

Valve confirms next-gen Source engine exists and is just 'waiting for a game to roll it out with':
Valve boss Gabe Newell has been caught on camera (lots of cameras, actually), explaining that Source 2 is real and is in development. It's just waiting for a game to release with. Now what could that game be...?
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Call of Duty Elite extended until March for MW3 early adopters

Call of Duty Elite extended until March for MW3 early adopters:

If you signed up for the ‘Call of Duty Elite Premium’ service on the launch day of Modern Warfare 3 last year – thus making you an ‘early adopter’ – you can look forward to an extra three-and-a-bit months of service. This is Activision’s way of apologising for the outages that affected Elite at launch. As Joystiq report, when that extra time is up – on March 1st 2013 – Modern Warfare 3′s Elite service is going to go completely free. Upon that date, your Premium service will continue as normal (with all the same features), but you won’t have to pay a penny.

To make things extra confusing, when CoD Elite goes live for Black Ops II next week, it’s also going to be free, as we mentioned a couple of weeks ago. However, Black Ops II players won’t get Modern Warfare 3′s Premium features by default – only MW3 Premium members will.

It’s a frankly convoluted state of affairs, but at least it’s one that isn’t asking for any more of your money – whether you plan on migrating to Black Ops II, or carrying on with Modern Warfare 3, you won’t have to shell out for CoD Elite.




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“Critical vulnerabilities” found in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, CryEngine 3

“Critical vulnerabilities” found in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, CryEngine 3:

If you thought the biggest thing you had to worry about in Modern Warfare 3 was a knife in the back while you were camped out sniping, you might have to think again. At the Power of Community security conference in Seoul, two researchers appear to have found “critical vulnerabilities” in the game – along with Crytek’s CryEngine 3 – as reported by Computer World.

At the conference, ReVuln security consultants Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante presented the results of their research. Along with a video showing how a denial-of-service attack could trouble Modern Warfare 3, they demonstrated how a server-level attack on CryEngine 3 (using the game Nexuiz) let them “create a remote shell on a game-player’s computer”, granting access to “all of the information on the players through the server”. The pair plan to reveal “advisories” on the two vulnerabilities tomorrow, on the launch day of Black Ops II. They’re also willing to offer their assistance to Activision, but as Computer World put it, they “aren’t going to volunteer the information, since their research is part of their business.”

As well as accessing players’ information, Ferrante says that these vulnerabilities could be used by rival companies to shut down their competitors’ games entirely. He blames the focus on game performance over security for these flaws. “In general, game companies don’t seem to be very focused on security but rather on performance of the game itself, Ferrante said. Adding security checks can slow down games, and if the companies don’t deem the problem a very critical issue, it will usually be ignored.”




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