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Nintendo has confirmed a breach of security on the Japanese version of the Club Nintendo website. Kotaku reports that the platform holder says it noticed a unusually high number of errors were noticed on the site on July 2nd, at which point it launched an investigation. That discovered that 23,000 …
Read More »Ubisoft’s Uplay service hacked, user data compromised
Ubisoft sent out an email to Uplay users late last night, asking them to change their passwords following a breach of security. Reports suggest that hackers have been able to gain backdoor access to the Uplay store and have been able to download games without purchasing them. These include Far …
Read More »Playing with friends equals gaming success
Oslo Albet, creator of co-operative puzzle game Fireboy and Watergirl, discusses how allowing kids and parents to play together can help spread word of your latest title Easy to play, hard to master games are key components for many successful games. Add friends to the recipe, and the hard to …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: June 23-29
Company of Heroes 2 is on top of Steam’s top ten selling products chartin consecutive weeks, finishing ahead of a slew of new releases and discounted titles. Activison’s licensed Deadpool game grabbed the runner-up spot, right ahead of the recently released indie roguelike Rogue Legacy – a pleasant surprise reaching …
Read More »Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition sells 7m copies on XBLA
Continuing the recent streak of Minecraft sales figure news, 4J Studios has announced that Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition has moved past 7m sales. The unbelivably successful indie game’s Xbox 360 developer took to Twitter to announce the latest milestone. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has now sold over 7 MILLION copies …
Read More »Kinect for Windows dev kits coming in November
Developers to gain access to pre-release hardware and SDK before public launch next year
Read More »Nvidia delays Shield launch
A mechanical issue with an internal third party component pushes retail launch back a month
Read More »ESRB extends Privacy Certified program to mobile developers
The Entertainment Software Rating Board has announced the expansion of its Privacy Certified program to cover mobile app developers. The organization says it will provide developers with a number of tools for certification, including privacy risk assessment of apps, ongoing compliance monitoring and assistance for meeting impending parental consent requirements. …
Read More »Steam Summer Sale beginning this week?
Valve has dropped what is being interpreted as a hint that the Steam Summer Sale will kick off this Wednesday. PCGamesN reports that the Steam Trading Card beta will be ending on June 26th at 7pm UK time. At that point Steam Trading Cards will be open to everyone, with …
Read More »AMD promises Crossfire-fixing new drivers on July 31st
A long-awaited driver update that promises to fix one of the biggest issues dogging AMD graphics card will be released on July 31st. AMD confirmed as much on Twitter last night. The driver upgrade will apparently fix problems that were identified earlier this year with users running two AMD Radeon …
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