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Virgin Media’s website was forced offline for an hour yesterday after hacker collective Anonymous attacked the portal. The move was in response to Virgin’s decision to block access to The Pirate Bay for all of its UK customers. That decision came after the High Court ordered ISPs to do so, …
Read More »Now Irish President attacks video games
The new President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has used his first official public engagement to attack video games. He issued the warning when attending an event at The Ark in Dublin’s Temple Bar – his first presidential appointment since taking office on November 11th. The 70 year old told …
Read More »Pickford attacks BAFTA Game Awards
A prominent indie developer has listed extensive criticisms of the BAFTA Game Awards and its organisers. Ste Pickford said the glitzy annual event ‘ghettoises’ the triumphs of small-scale independent work, and is too preoccupied with big-budget triple-A titles. He also claimed the Awards’ genre-based categories are pointless for celebrating the …
Read More »How 9/11 affected the Grand Theft Auto legacy
Arriving on PlayStation 2 just weeks after the terrorist attack on New York’s World Trade Center, public sensitivity could have scuppered the commercial chances of one of history’s greatest games. Fortunately the quality of Rockstar’s epic shone through and the game went on to spearhead a phenomenon that remains one …
Read More »Anonymous says it will ‘erase New York Stock Exchange’ from the net
Next Monday will be, in the words of a suitably anonymous video released by hacking group Anonymous, a day that will never, ever be forgotten”. That’s because on Monday Anonymous will erase the New York Stock Exchange” from the internet as part of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests in …
Read More »Sony: MS policies are "protecting an inferior technology"
Microsoft’s policies that are designed to protect the Xbox 360 platform are to the detriment of the wider industry and the consumer, Sony has claimed. The attack comes after it was revealed that Microsoft has a number of strict policies in place for potential publishers, including an unwillingness to publish …
Read More »Anonymous stops Sony attacks
An unsurprisingly anonymous member of hacker community Anonymous has stated that the collective has stopped its attack on Sony. Amazingly, the reason for the decision was what is described as the "selfish" reaction to the attacks on PSN. "We are no longer attacking Sony, there is nothing more to gained …
Read More »Anonymous ‘suspends’ Sony attacks
The cyberwar declared on Sony by online activists Anonymous has been temporarily suspended, the group has confirmed. Sony yesterday admitted for the first time that revert outages to both its range of websites and PSN were caused by hostile actions. "We are currently investigating, including the possibility of targeted behaviour …
Read More »Russian media links MW2 to bombing
Government-financed satellite news channel Russia Today has pointed the finger at Modern Warfare 2 following the recent terrorist attack in the country. Earlier this week a suicide bomber detonated a 7kg bomb at Russia’s Domodedovo airport, killing 35 people and injuring a further ten. It is though that North Caucasus …
Read More »Amazon outage ‘not a result of hack’
Amazon has stated that the outage that it suffered on Satudrady was a result of hardware failure and not online ‘hacktivism’ as has been claimed. An spokesman for the online retailer told Reuters that: The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in …
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