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One of the key figures behind the failed Coleco Chameleon console has spoken out on his version of why the venture collapsed. All trace of the project vanished last month after a pair of prototype devices, one of which was shown to the public at the New York Toy Fair, …
Read More »Amazon sues over 1,000 fake reviewers
US retail giant Amazon has issued a lawsuit against 1,114 people accused of posting fake product reviews on its website. The move is the second such effort by the website to combat ‘false, misleading and inauthentic’ reviews this year, after it took a number of review sellers to court in …
Read More »Hoax backwards compatibility hack could brick your Xbox One
Xbox One owners who follow the instructions in a supposed backwards compatibility hack face wrecking their 425 machine. Kotaku says that an image carrying instructions on how to make an Xbox One backwardly compatible with Xbox 360 games has been doing the rounds online. However, following the steps takes users …
Read More »EB Australia apologises for GTA V fake-cocaine stunt
The Australian arm of games retailer EB Games has issued an apology for a Grand Theft Auto V display in one of its stores that used sherbert as fake cocaine. "Regrettably, one of our EB Games store locations in Queensland set-up an unauthorised display within the store in support of …
Read More »NBC 5 issues fake iPad warning after woman buys a mirror
Be warned, dear readers – a cunning scam is currently thriving in the US that tricks punters into buying a fake iPad. It is speculated that the rouse is being perpetrated by the same gang of hooligans that have been spotted in Weston-super-Mare selling pencils to pensioners, tricking them into …
Read More »Fake Ninja Turtles App tricks Apple
A game that appears to be in clear breach of several copyright and trademark laws has slipped through Apple’s notoriously strict screening process. The iPhone manufacturer has allowed a Vietnamese developer, known as Dang Van Phuong, to publish a $5 bootleg Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game (pictured) onto the App …
Read More »ITV runs Arma II footage, says it is real IRA shooting
An ITV documentary aired last night in UK reportedly used footage from PC war sim Arma II as evidence of the IRA’s procurement of weapons from Colonel Gaddafi. The film, called ‘Exposure – Gaddafi and the IRA’ supposedly showed a scene of IRA militants gunning down a helicopter using vehicle-mounted …
Read More »Reverb settles fake review scandal
PR and marketing firm Reverb Communications has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission over deceptive reviews on Apple’s App Store. The charges relate to reviews posted on the App Store by Reverb staff about their clients’ iPhone games, without disclosing their paid relationship with those publishers. "Reverb and …
Read More »Dodgy DS chargers flood High Street
The BBC is reporting that ‘hundreds of thousands’ of unsafe AC power adaptors from China are currently for sale on the UK High Street, with versions labelled for the DS, DS Lite and Game Boy highlighted as one of the worst offenders. Trading Standards has stated that tests have shown …
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