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Valve admits extent of Steam hack

Valve’s Gabe Newell sent out a notification today warning patrons of the company’s digital distribution service Steam that hackers may have obtained a copy of a file containing payment transaction details dated 2004-2008. "This backup file contained user names, email addresses, encrypted billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. It …

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GTA V is Rockstar’s "largest, most ambitious" game ever

Rockstar has for the first time spoken about the recently announced Grand Theft Auto V. The first ever trailer for the game was released late yesterday afternoon. As we know, the game returns to many of the locations found in PS2 hit GTA: San Andreas. Rockstar describes it as the …

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COD Elite Premium priced, dated

COD XP: Activision has finally lifted the lid on the premium membership to its new social networking service, Call of Duty Elite. During the company’s Call of Duty XP event in Los Angeles, CEO Eric Hirshberg announced that a 12-month subscription will cost $49.99 – equating to roughly $5 per …

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IN DETAIL: Call of Duty Elite

Activision has at last detailed the mysterious premium Call of Duty: Elite service. Going into public beta this summer, Elite will ship with November’s Modern Warfare 3. The service, as we know, has been developed by new Activision studio Beachhead though has also had input from Infinity Ward, Treyarch and …

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Square confirms website hacks

Publisher Square Enix has confirmed that a number of its websites have been infiltrated by a group of unnamed hackers. It emerged last week that both the official Eidos website and the portal for upcoming game Deus Ex: Human Revolution were accessed and later taken down. Emails and CVs from …

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Modern Warfare 3 blown wide open

If you want to maintain any element of surprise about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 then look away now. Kotaku has landed a major scoop in obtaining a huge gallery of images and plot details about the yet-to-be announced title. Infinity Ward, Raven Software and Sledgehammer are all co-developing …

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PES 2012 is revealed

Konami has announced the first details of PES 2012, which is due out on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PC and PS2 this autumn. Key words in this year’s pre-release hype are "instinct" and "teamwork". The AI engine has undergone a major overhaul, with attacking emphasised as the cornerstone of …

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Sony removes user data posted online

In a fresh blow for PSN’s security worries, Sony has omitted over the weekend that it was forced to remove the details of some 2,500 PSN users that were posted online by hackers. Reuters reports that the details stemmed from a 2001 product sweepstake and included names and partial addresses. …

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Now SOE confirms data theft

Games developer Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed it was attacked by hackers as part of last month’s PSN hack and that user data has possibly been compromised. In total the firm believes that it has lost around 12,700 credit card numbers with some 24.6m accounts being compromised. The attack took …

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PSN: Credit card details up for sale

The ongoing PSN saga has taken a dramatic turn for the worse with evidence that hackers responsible for the PSN breach last week are attempting to sell users’ credit card details online. It’s believed that hackers have obtained unencrypted databases including names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, email passwords, date of …

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