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Hotz renews PS3 piracy drive

Famed hacker and all-round cyber warrior George Hotz has allegedly made public key information that could potentially allow homebrew developers to get any code they like running on PS3s – including pirated games. ‘GeoHot’ has published the console’s ‘root key’ – a code that the PS3 uses to authenticate any …

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Most Popular Stories of 2010 Comments

For an online publisher the idea of letting your readers have their say is, to be brutally frank, a little scary. But sometimes it’s you, the reader, that very much makes the story. If it wasn’t for you and the comments you leave we’d be very much less the community …

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Most Popular Stories of 2010 Hits

We’re here to serve you, our dear readers. Were it not for you we would not be here. So what, you may asked, are the stories on MCVuk.com this year that you have read the most? There’s a real mix in here, including November’s exclusive scoop on retail fears concerning …

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2010 Review Oct-Dec

The Q4 sales season arrives with huge performances from Black Ops and FIFA 11. There’s less good news for industry favourite Tim Langdell, however, whose legal tirade is finally ended. Sony decided to lop 65 off the price of a PSPgo, but that’s quickly forgotten as details of two new …

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2010 Review October-December

The Q4 sales season arrives with huge performances from Black Ops and FIFA 11. There’s less good news for industry favourite Tim Langdell, however, whose legal tirade is finally ended. Sony decided to lop 65 off the price of a PSPgo, but that’s quickly forgotten as details of two new …

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2010 Review July-Sep

As ‘Antennagate’ rumbled on Apple responded with one of the most astonishing press releases ever released – not that any of it stopped the iPhone 4 outselling Microsoft’s Kin by what can only be described as a gargantuan amount. Developer Tim Schafer laid into Bobby Kotick and Microsoft finally confirmed …

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2010 Review July-September

As ‘Antennagate’ rumbled on Apple responded with one of the most astonishing press releases ever released – not that any of it stopped the iPhone 4 outselling Microsoft’s Kin by what can only be described as a gargantuan amount. Developer Tim Schafer laid into Bobby Kotick and Microsoft finally confirmed …

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HMV considering online pre-owned move

HMV wants to be the next retailer to offer pre-owned games online following Amazon UK’s entry into the market. Last week, Amazon.co.uk began buying and selling second-hand titles. Customers can buy pre-owned games from the retailer, check prices using an online calculator and post old games in exchange for gift …

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Novembers 1m game shortfall

UK games retail sold 1m fewer games during November than it did during the same period in 2009, according to GfK Chart-Track data. Just shy of 9m games were sold at retail last month, while a little under 10m units were shifted during the same period in 2009. But retailers …

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