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Having your World of Warcraft account compromised is a terrible thing which, upon discovery, might seem like the end of the world. Do not despair. Instead, press play and let the soothing British narrators of Blizzard customer service lull you gently to sleep. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5840749&view=rss&microfeed=true Last week Kotaku reported that BioWare was hacked. The company has been active on company forums and is sending out emails today to BioWare account holders. More info here. [Thanks to all who sent this in!] More »
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Hacker KaKaRoTo (real name Youness Alaoui), the fellow behind the PSFreedom jailbreak, thinks the PS3 is now secure after the recent firmware update. More »
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The downtime that plagued PC gamers trying to play Assassin's Creed II yesterday was the result of a denial-of-service attack, causing one of Ubisoft's new DRM-servers to become unreachable. But hey, at least no one has hacked the game yet. More »
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Continuing his photo odyssey of Japan, Wired's Chris Kohler stumbled upon a saucy version of Bandai's PS2 series .hack. Let's see... A naughty knock off of .hack using some of the letters in the game's title. The options are endless! We've got: .jack, .rack or even .lick. But, you know, those are a little too vague and don't leap out at non-English speakers. We need something to more blunt. Yup, we need ".fuck." More »
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So I finally had a few spare moments last night to finally log into World of Warcraft and catch up with some of my friends, maybe finish a quest or two, slowly inch my way towards level 70 so I could play with the big kids. Upon login, I am greeted by this: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=247979&view=rss&microfeed=true We've been through this song and dance before, and we'll probably go through it again. An Xbox modding collective dubbed the Devil360 Team claims to have developed a 360 modchip. The team sent website Xbox-Scene a heads-up email. Hit the j-u-m-p to read it. More »
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Boing Boing alerted us to the hacking of PSP 2.01 (already), this time PSP 3D did it. How'd they do it this time? Boing Boing points to some published cheats for Grand Theft Auto: LCS as the way in. Some more details and a how-to are readable at the PSP 3D forums. More »
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A thread at the perpetually informative Gaming-Age Forums points to a GSCentral thread discussing the hackability of Nintendo's WiFi system. One user, Parasyte, claims to have already gotten several offline tracks in Mario Kart DS playable online - but he's not saying how. Here's a clip of an offline level being played online. I want more information, I want to know how to do this and I want to see what Nintendo is going to do. Upon hearing the news of hte hack Crecente asked, "Did they give Mario boobs?" Only a matter of time, my friend, only a matter of time. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=142229&view=rss&microfeed=true PSP Hacks says that Butterballer360 (great name, btw) over at PSP3d has found an exploit in the latest PSP firmware. While this comes as a shock to literally no human being alive, here's what this latest exploit is: "These folks have discovered a way around the TIFF overflow patch for the recent exploit discovered in firmware version 2.0. Similar to the initial exploit discovered in 2.0 this currently freezes the PSP when executed - allowing the possibility of arbitrary code to be ran." More »
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