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Hackers likely gained access to full Steam transactions

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This past weekend Valve software confirmed that the unidentified crackers who compromised their systems and gained access to the Steam distribution database in last year’s hack may have obtained a full copy of a backup file of Steam customer transactions. In a post last Friday, Gabe Newell, Valve’s co-founder and managing director explains that the file transaction backup file contained lists of essentially all transactions from between 2004 and 2008 containing usernames, email addresses, encrypted credit card and billing addresses, and various other less sensitive profile data. Gabe Newell did [...]

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Kinect Star Wars Available Spring 2012

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At last years E3, Microsoft announced a special Kinect Star Wars game completely build around the Xbox 360 Kinect device that would allow you to become a real-life jedi fighter in your own living room. It took them a while after postponing the initial release date set for December 2011, but finally they confirmed the official release of the game on April 3rd. Together with the game, Microsoft also launches the awesome looking limited edition ‘R2-D2′ Xbox 360 set. Features in the new Star Wars game like Jedi, Podracing and [...]

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Mind/Games: Steam Sales

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Valve recently celebrated yet another record year in game sales, to the surprise of absolutely no one. 2011 was an excellent year for Valve, who was able to announce their seventh straight year of 100 percent or more increase in game sales. What has Valve done so right? Think about that. Steam’s game sales have at least doubled, every year, for the past seven years. In the context of a brick and mortar store, their required storage warehouse would have double in size every year. Good thing for Valve that [...]

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Skyrim Creation Kit on Schedule and Comes With a Surprise!

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Pete Hines from Bethesda posted a nice tweet on twitter to let everyone know that the upcoming Creation Kit for The Elder Scrolls Skyrim is right on schedule, as well as teasing everybody with some sort of “special surprise” that they have in store which will be included in the Creation Kit. Since then a lot of rumors have been going around the gaming world ranging from a special horse armor ’till official nude patches (which I think is going to be highly unlikely). Here is the complete tweet from [...]

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Trials Evolution “Crazy” Gameplay Reveal Trailer

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Explosions, people flying through the air, jumping into a cliff with three friends… It seems like they’ve gone crazy at the office of Finnish developer Redlynx. After 2009′s successor of Trials HD a new Trials game has been announced called: “Trials Evolution” and will be released on Xbox Live somewhere during spring of this year. This time they decided to raise the bar to a complete new level which seems to get really near Little Big Planets bar. Just like little big planet this game will allow the users to [...]

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Metro 2033 – Last Light Delayed and Will Depart on Platform 2013

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As the title states, the upcoming sequel on THQ’s shooter Metro 2033 is delayed until early next year. The reason for this delay is not yet clear although it seems like THQ is trying to polish up the game a lot more than they did with the first Metro 2033 which still had a lot of bugs in it. Core games boss at THQ, Danny Bilson said he believed the shooter had what it takes to “compete with Call of Duty’s”. The question is however will they be able to [...]

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The Invisible Wall – An Author’s Response

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Every three or four years, I’ll mark a special day in my calendar. It’s not the leap year or the Summer Olympics. Actually I should put those in there. But the day to which I was originally referring is the release date of a new Zelda. The Legend of Zelda is my “desert island” franchise (“if you were stranded on a deserted island and could only bring one game…”). Most of us have at least one. That series of games that plays so familiar yet innovative and manages to engross [...]

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Ghost Recon Future Soldier Trailer Shows Fighting Fair is Not an Option!

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Ubisoft just released a nice sneak-peak of the single-player campaign in their latest trailer. Showing off a lot of the cool gadgets and features that you will have to utilize in order to complete the various missions and objectives you have to complete successfully of course. “When you’re outnumbered, and the most advanced arsenal is at your disposal, fighting fair just isn’t an option.” – pretty much sums it all up. You will have the most advanced and proto-type technology to your availability while most of your enemies will have [...]

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Total War Shogun 2 Fall Of The Samurai Release Date Confirmed

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The waiting is almost over for all the Total War fans that were waiting on the Shogun 2 expansion pack: “Fall of the Samurai”. SEGA officially confirmed today that this expansion pack will be released on March 24th. The Fall of the Samurai will include six new playable clans and three foreign powers to deal with; Britain, America and France. SEGA said: “How will you treat them? All this plays out across an expanded and improved campaign map, covering new island provinces in the far north and featuring all-new building [...]

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SSX – Patagonia Trailer Makes the Impossible Possible

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Next Stop in the SSX media bombardment is Patagonia! EA Sports is really trying to sell this game with showing off the unrealistic, full of action, deadly descents. Of course we all know that SSX is not the in the Simulation genre and put more emphasis on the actual gameplay and “fun” aspect of the game instead of the realism, but this time they seem to pull the long bow in terms of actually defying the rules of physics that exist in this world in order to provide for a [...]

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Portal 2 Fan-Made Music Video “This Is Aperture”

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As you are probably well aware we love our Fan-Made videos about video games especially when they are really well made. Last holiday season while pretty much everybody (including us) was playing Skyrim, a group of dedicated Steam Users started a project named: “Goodbye Christmas Caroline” with the intention to create a Christmas music album featuring Valve characters. Harry101UK is one of those members and made a Portal-style remake of “This Is Halloween” from The Nightmare Before Christmas. All voices and music are done by Harry101UK himself. “This is Aperture” [...]

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The Darkness 2 Launch Trailer Shows “Jackie Estacado”

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2K Games released the official “The Darkness 2 Launch Trailer” exactly thirteen days before the game is due to hit the shelfs in the US and three days later in Europe. The trailer does not show any actual gameplay footage, although on the other hand it does show the main character “Jackie Estacado” (the current wielder of the darkness) that you will be playing throughout the actual game. “Victor Valente”, a mysterious figure who knows about the darkness isn’t left out either, he is after Jackie because he wants the [...]

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The Logic of Playstation as Witnessed by an Xbox Fanboy

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That moment during an argument when you realize the other person is right but you’re too proud to admit defeat. This is where the Microsoft faithful find themselves at times. The Xbox Live and PSN online experiences are as different as night and day, and it’s not often that we paint the picture in Sony’s favour. That’s a shame when they’ve clearly done plenty right. Right may not even be the proper word. They’ve done plenty logically. USB Controller They’ve died almost as many times as you have. The constant [...]

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Guild Wars 2 Announces Open Beta

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This morning ArenaNet founder and president Mike O’Brien announced in a blog post that Guild Wars 2 will get an open beta in March or April 2012. He said that after the relatively small closed-beta testing they were now ready to hold progressively larger events. “In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate”, he said. “Guild Wars 2 has captured [...]

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SSX Shows Online Features Part 1

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As we are closing in on February 28th, EA Sports is releasing more and more information about their upcoming SSX title. This time creative director Todd Batty is going to talk and explain a bit more about the game’s online features. Part 1 will be dedicated to explore plus a new feature called: “Ridernet”. The basic principle of explore is that you need to beat the times the game has set for you, beat the best time and you get a gold medal. Get a gold medal for all drops, [...]

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