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NicKnayme · NicKnayme

A large number of Xbox 360 users have reported that their consoles have started having disc read errors after they were updated with the latest firmware. The rest HERE!

Vindicated · Vindicated

[url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399366,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Report: Next...

NicKnayme · NicKnayme

The games company sent an email to customers warning them that its Sega Pass service had been hacked and that some data had been obtained by the hackers. Though Sega said that no payment details were taken because the company uses third-party companies to handle payments, the hackers had obtained em...

barney · barney

Even as Sony says they are trying to secure the console-based Playstation Network from further cyber attacks, a online security expert said he has found flaws in some of Sony's other online systems. Reuters reports that John Bumgarner, the chief technology officer for the U.S. Cyber Consequences...

barney · barney

Console gamers just can’t catch a break with the video game gods. This time, it is Xbox 360 gamers who can’t play their games.Some Xbox 360 owners are finding a “disk unreadable” or “disk unsupported” error after updating their consoles with the most recent update, where the only fix is to have their c...

barney · barney

Sony announced today that it expects it will take a $172 million loss due to the cyber attack that caused the shut down of the company's console Playstation Network online service. The announcement came as part of an overall financial update for the company ahead of its official results. Sony is now p...

barney · barney

Sony has had quite the PR disaster on its hands after the exposure of its PlayStation Network. While Microsoft has, so far, not had its systems compromised to the degree that Sony is currently facing, the platform is not perfect either. A report out of Ireland states that a teen who attempted to hack Mi...

barney · barney

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has apologized for being hit with an outage and a cyberattack, but with an additional attack likely the company faces a long road ahead. Stringer said in a letter: Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and imp...

NicKnayme · NicKnayme

Sony has warned that almost 25 million extra Playstation users may have had their personal details taken in a hacker attack. The rest HERE!

barney · barney

Sony said Thursday that its PlayStation Network, the online service that connects Sony's game consoles like the PlayStation 3, may be out for a "full day or two" due to an unexpected and unexplained outage. Sony first confirmed the outage at 5:50 PM Wednesday night, when Patrick Seybold...

barney · barney

So you got a Nintendo3DS recently, and according to our review from yesterday, it's a pretty good device overall. But we have a small problem, some people are getting a BSOD on their 3DS. Fortunately, it's black instead of blue, and the language used is more inline with OS X kernel panics than the wall o...

barney · barney

When was the last time you've received an update for anything that doesn't bump the version number, and goes unannounced? Probably not recently. But today, Microsoft pushed an update to their Zune desktop client which, on the surface, appears to have changed nothing. The update, which popped up fo...

barney · barney

A number of Call of Duty: Black Ops gamers were in for a big surprise this week after a recent PlayStation 3 update banned players for hacking or cheating. As reported by VideoGaming247, Sony released firmware version 3.56 yesterday, adding a "securitypatch" to the console. Once detec...

barney · barney

The skies have opened, the gods have smiled, and 2K Games has announced an actual release date for Duke Nukem Forever. The game is for real, people have played it, and we know when it will go on sale to gamers who have waited over a decade to play the official sequel to one of the most-loved PC games ever rel...

barney · barney

The latest World of Warcraft expansion has topped all previous sales records in its first 24 hours, not just for WoW but for all PC game titles. Dubbed World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the game’s final count for copies sold is — are you sitting down? — 3.3 million in the expansion’s first day. That means mo...

barney · barney

We've already featured numerous Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 hacks that control Mac OS X and a Web browser . But this latest one is a huge jump. MIT engineer Garratt Gallagher developed a way to use the Kinect sensor to distinguish both hands and individual fingers in a cloud of more than 60,000 points...

barney · barney

By the age of 21, the typical American has spent 10,000 hours playing computer games, and endured a smaller but much drearier chunk of time listening to sermons about this sinful habit. Why, the experts wail, are so many people wasting their lives solving meaningless puzzles in virtual worlds? Now s...

barney · barney

Left 4 Dead 2, arguably one of my all time favorite games is now only $5.00 in the Steam Store. DAMN!!! Grab your copy now!

barney · barney

Sure, 2010 had some truly excellent games – games that likely brought you hours of fun, red eyes and repetitive strain injuries of all kinds. But it also brought disappointment. We're talking about broken dreams, wet eyes and a pang in our hearts that not even the strongest alcohol seems to blot out. W...

barney · barney

Are you prepared to be blown away? Have your mind flipped inside-out? Experience a revelation to end all revelations? Tough luck, bubs. During an earnings call yesterday, GameStop president Tony Bartel was cited as saying that both Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's PlayStation Move would both be dif...

barney · barney

Microsoft says a Windows-based supercomputer has broken the petaflop speed barrier, but the achievement is not being recognized by the group that tracks the world's fastest supercomputers, because the same machine was able to achieve higher speeds using Linux. It's an interesting story that de...

barney · barney

In a move that may seem crazy to many gamers, high street retailers in the United Kingdom have begun considering banning game titles that have Valve's Steamworks built into them. According to website MCV, some of the biggest high street game retailers such as "Gamestation" and "Ga...

barney · barney

From fitness to fantasy to family fare, here's a complete (so far) guide to games shipping at Kinect's launch and in development for release soon. PC World has the slideshow HERE!

barney · barney

The Xbox 360 dashboard is not the only thing that’s getting a fresh coat of paint. Xbox.com is in for a major change tomorrow (October 20, 2010). Starting at 5:00am eastern time, Xbox.com and the Xbox forums will not be accessible for a little while. Xbox Live however will not be affected by this upgrad...

barney · barney

Microsoft has begun warning consumers about the possibility of Kinect hardware shortages when the Xbox 360 motion controller comes out next month. This news from Microsoft comes just days after Amazon UK and several Game websites stopped taking pre-orders due to high demand, though console bun...

barney · barney

Redbox, everyone’s favorite video rental kiosk, is going to try their hand at renting another type of disk - video games. According to their Wikipedia entry, Redbox has over 22,000 kiosks in the United States. The big draw is the convenient locations and cheap prices; you can rent a DVD for a buck a da...

barney · barney

Epic Games has delayed release of Gears of War 3 until late next year, and it is not good news for fans of the series. The announcement was made via the game's official web site Friday morning. While the reasoning behind the new release date that Epic Games uses is rather vague, it seems that the company j...

barney · barney

You may want to keep an eye on the Geek Squad if you're ever in need of their services, and Best Buy's latest bit of value-add for new PlayStation 3 systems is pretty hard to defend. The big box retailer is selling systems that have been opened, hooked up to a TV, updated, and repackaged... for an additio...

barney · barney

Having received much criticism over its lack of support for the PC and the Games for Windows Live service, Microsoft Games Studios' Dave Luehmann is now saying that the company should be putting more resources into the platform. Speaking in an interview with MCV, the General Manager said that it's M...

barney · barney

To the shock of absolutely no one, Sony has announced a new mandatory update for the PlayStation 3. Don't expect any new features, but if you have one of those new, fancy USB-based hacking devices you may want to hold off on updating. Just sayin'. "Hi everyone! A minor update to your PS3 system is n...

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	Disc Read Errors After Xbox 360 Firmware Update (Preview) *A large number of Xbox 360* users have reported that their consoles have started having disc read errors after they were updated with the latest firmware. The rest HERE!**	NicKnayme	2	3593	Jun 27, 2019 by printablepictures
	Report: Next Xbox May Reject Used Games (Preview) [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399366,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Report: Next...	Vindicated	0	2305	Jan 26, 2012 by Vindicated
	Sega becomes latest hacking victim (Preview) The games company sent an email to customers warning them that its Sega Pass service had been hacked and that some data had been obtained by the hackers. Though Sega said that no payment details were taken because the company uses third-party companies to handle payments, the hackers had obtained em...	NicKnayme	0	1443	Jun 18, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Sony's servers still have security flaws, says expert (Preview) Even as Sony says they are trying to secure the console-based Playstation Network from further cyber attacks, a online security expert said he has found flaws in some of Sony's other online systems. Reuters reports that John Bumgarner, the chief technology officer for the U.S. Cyber Consequences...	barney	1	1655	Jun 5, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Microsoft "fixes" faulty Xbox 360 update by giving away a free console (Preview) Console gamers just can’t catch a break with the video game gods. This time, it is Xbox 360 gamers who can’t play their games.Some Xbox 360 owners are finding a “disk unreadable” or “disk unsupported” error after updating their consoles with the most recent update, where the only fix is to have their c...	barney	3	3962	Jun 4, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Sony predicts it will lose $172 million due to PSN cyber attack (Preview) Sony announced today that it expects it will take a $172 million loss due to the cyber attack that caused the shut down of the company's console Playstation Network online service. The announcement came as part of an overall financial update for the company ahead of its official results. Sony is now p...	barney	0	1706	May 24, 2011 by barney
	Teen who attempted to hack Xbox now working with Microsoft (Preview) Sony has had quite the PR disaster on its hands after the exposure of its PlayStation Network. While Microsoft has, so far, not had its systems compromised to the degree that Sony is currently facing, the platform is not perfect either. A report out of Ireland states that a teen who attempted to hack Mi...	barney	0	1573	May 24, 2011 by barney
	Sony's network outage, cyberattack mean long road to recovery (Preview) Sony CEO Howard Stringer has apologized for being hit with an outage and a cyberattack, but with an additional attack likely the company faces a long road ahead. Stringer said in a letter: Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and imp...	barney	7	2146	May 17, 2011 by Vindicated
	Sony warns of almost 25 million extra PS user info loss (Preview) Sony has warned that almost 25 million extra Playstation users may have had their personal details taken in a hacker attack. The rest HERE!	NicKnayme	3	2066	May 7, 2011 by Vindicated
	Playstation Network is Down for a Couple of Days (Preview) Sony said Thursday that its PlayStation Network, the online service that connects Sony's game consoles like the PlayStation 3, may be out for a "full day or two" due to an unexpected and unexplained outage. Sony first confirmed the outage at 5:50 PM Wednesday night, when Patrick Seybold...	barney	1	1671	Apr 25, 2011 by Vindicated
	Some Nintendo 3DS consoles hit with BSOD (Preview) So you got a Nintendo3DS recently, and according to our review from yesterday, it's a pretty good device overall. But we have a small problem, some people are getting a BSOD on their 3DS. Fortunately, it's black instead of blue, and the language used is more inline with OS X kernel panics than the wall o...	barney	0	1536	Mar 29, 2011 by barney
	Zune software gets mystery update, WP7 update imminent? (Preview) When was the last time you've received an update for anything that doesn't bump the version number, and goes unannounced? Probably not recently. But today, Microsoft pushed an update to their Zune desktop client which, on the surface, appears to have changed nothing. The update, which popped up fo...	barney	0	1595	Feb 9, 2011 by barney
	PS3 firmware 3.56 bans Black Ops hackers (Preview) A number of Call of Duty: Black Ops gamers were in for a big surprise this week after a recent PlayStation 3 update banned players for hacking or cheating. As reported by VideoGaming247, Sony released firmware version 3.56 yesterday, adding a "securitypatch" to the console. Once detec...	barney	0	1588	Jan 29, 2011 by barney
	Duke Nukem Forever arrives May 3; Greatest Game Trailer EVER Included! (Preview) The skies have opened, the gods have smiled, and 2K Games has announced an actual release date for Duke Nukem Forever. The game is for real, people have played it, and we know when it will go on sale to gamers who have waited over a decade to play the official sequel to one of the most-loved PC games ever rel...	barney	0	1455	Jan 22, 2011 by barney
	Latest “World of Warcraft” Expansion Breaks Sales Records for PC Games (Preview) The latest World of Warcraft expansion has topped all previous sales records in its first 24 hours, not just for WoW but for all PC game titles. Dubbed World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the game’s final count for copies sold is — are you sitting down? — 3.3 million in the expansion’s first day. That means mo...	barney	0	1566	Dec 14, 2010 by barney
	The Coolest Microsoft Kinect Hack Yet (Preview) We've already featured numerous Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 hacks that control Mac OS X and a Web browser . But this latest one is a huge jump. MIT engineer Garratt Gallagher developed a way to use the Kinect sensor to distinguish both hands and individual fingers in a cloud of more than 60,000 points...	barney	0	1601	Dec 12, 2010 by barney
	What Makes Gamers Keep Gaming? (Preview) By the age of 21, the typical American has spent 10,000 hours playing computer games, and endured a smaller but much drearier chunk of time listening to sermons about this sinful habit. Why, the experts wail, are so many people wasting their lives solving meaningless puzzles in virtual worlds? Now s...	barney	1	1608	Dec 9, 2010 by Vindicated
	Left for Dead 2 - Now $5.00 in the Steam Store (Preview) Left 4 Dead 2, arguably one of my all time favorite games is now only $5.00 in the Steam Store. DAMN!!! Grab your copy now!	barney	0	1441	Nov 28, 2010 by barney
	Top Ten Biggest Gaming Disappointments of 2010 (Preview) Sure, 2010 had some truly excellent games – games that likely brought you hours of fun, red eyes and repetitive strain injuries of all kinds. But it also brought disappointment. We're talking about broken dreams, wet eyes and a pang in our hearts that not even the strongest alcohol seems to blot out. W...	barney	0	1460	Nov 28, 2010 by barney
	Shocker! GameStop expects Kinect and Move to be in short supply this holiday season (Preview) Are you prepared to be blown away? Have your mind flipped inside-out? Experience a revelation to end all revelations? Tough luck, bubs. During an earnings call yesterday, GameStop president Tony Bartel was cited as saying that both Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's PlayStation Move would both be dif...	barney	0	1621	Nov 20, 2010 by barney
	Microsoft announces new gaming hub (Preview) Microsoft says a Windows-based supercomputer has broken the petaflop speed barrier, but the achievement is not being recognized by the group that tracks the world's fastest supercomputers, because the same machine was able to achieve higher speeds using Linux. It's an interesting story that de...	barney	0	1557	Nov 16, 2010 by barney
	Steam ban considered by retailers (Preview) In a move that may seem crazy to many gamers, high street retailers in the United Kingdom have begun considering banning game titles that have Valve's Steamworks built into them. According to website MCV, some of the biggest high street game retailers such as "Gamestation" and "Ga...	barney	0	1560	Nov 12, 2010 by barney
	Kinect Games Launch Guide (Preview) From fitness to fantasy to family fare, here's a complete (so far) guide to games shipping at Kinect's launch and in development for release soon. PC World has the slideshow HERE!	barney	0	1401	Nov 7, 2010 by barney
	Xbox.com is getting a makeover tomorrow (Oct 20th) (Preview) The Xbox 360 dashboard is not the only thing that’s getting a fresh coat of paint. Xbox.com is in for a major change tomorrow (October 20, 2010). Starting at 5:00am eastern time, Xbox.com and the Xbox forums will not be accessible for a little while. Xbox Live however will not be affected by this upgrad...	barney	0	1702	Oct 20, 2010 by barney
	Microsoft warns of Kinect shortages; Playstation Move stutters in the US (Preview) Microsoft has begun warning consumers about the possibility of Kinect hardware shortages when the Xbox 360 motion controller comes out next month. This news from Microsoft comes just days after Amazon UK and several Game websites stopped taking pre-orders due to high demand, though console bun...	barney	0	1632	Oct 17, 2010 by barney
	Redbox to offer video game rentals (Preview) Redbox, everyone’s favorite video rental kiosk, is going to try their hand at renting another type of disk - video games. According to their Wikipedia entry, Redbox has over 22,000 kiosks in the United States. The big draw is the convenient locations and cheap prices; you can rent a DVD for a buck a da...	barney	0	1541	Oct 16, 2010 by barney
	Gears of War 3 Delayed (Preview) Epic Games has delayed release of Gears of War 3 until late next year, and it is not good news for fans of the series. The announcement was made via the game's official web site Friday morning. While the reasoning behind the new release date that Epic Games uses is rather vague, it seems that the company j...	barney	0	1429	Oct 5, 2010 by barney
	Best Buy will update your PS3... for $30 (Preview) You may want to keep an eye on the Geek Squad if you're ever in need of their services, and Best Buy's latest bit of value-add for new PlayStation 3 systems is pretty hard to defend. The big box retailer is selling systems that have been opened, hooked up to a TV, updated, and repackaged... for an additio...	barney	0	1378	Oct 5, 2010 by barney
	Microsoft wants to lead PC gaming revolution (Preview) Having received much criticism over its lack of support for the PC and the Games for Windows Live service, Microsoft Games Studios' Dave Luehmann is now saying that the company should be putting more resources into the platform. Speaking in an interview with MCV, the General Manager said that it's M...	barney	0	1470	Sep 26, 2010 by barney
	Sony releases mandatory PS3 update in response to jailbreak (Preview) To the shock of absolutely no one, Sony has announced a new mandatory update for the PlayStation 3. Don't expect any new features, but if you have one of those new, fancy USB-based hacking devices you may want to hold off on updating. Just sayin'. "Hi everyone! A minor update to your PS3 system is n...	barney	3	1694	Sep 9, 2010 by Vindicated
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