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EA Advises Battlefield 3 Players Caught Up In Bogus Banning To Play On Non-Punkbuster Servers For Now
Responding to news this morning about hackers claiming to have found a way to ban innocent Battlefield 3 PC players, a rep for the game’s publisher, Electronic Arts, says a “permanent solution” is coming soon. Those whose accounts seemingly were hacked through an exploit in the Punkbuster anti-cheat tool should play on non-Punkbuster servers for…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 24, 2012 -
There Will Be Official Minecraft Lego Sets
The most popular Lego-like video game ever is getting official Legos. We’re getting Minecraft Lego sets, people. Back in December, the people who make Minecraft petitioned LegoCuusoo, an official branch of the Lego company, to make some Minecraft Lego. That’s what the Cuusoo people are there for. You ask. They count the amount of people…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 24, 2012 -
Hackers Brag That They’re Banning Innocent Battlefield 3 Users [UPDATE 5]
The people at the game-hacking site Artificial Aiming can’t stand the anti-cheat service Punkbuster. One of their members is going on the offensive today—aggressively. One junior member says he and his anonymous hacking team are banning innocent Battlefield 3 users—”framing” them, as they put it—to show their disdain for Punkbuster, a service that PC players…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 24, 2012 -
A Tease of Live-Action Battlefield, By Way of Dead Island
The Grosjean Brothers recently made a fun, short live-action video that showed us what Skyrim would be like if it was set in a convenience store Their big project is going to be a live-action Battlefield 3 movie. This is a clip of it, done in that moody-and-plays-in-reverse style popularized by last year’s trailer for…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 23, 2012 -
TV Newsman Wonders if It’s Bad For Toddlers to Play Video Games, Tests Them On His Son
More and more toddlers are playing video games, sometimes before they can even talk. Derek James, co-host of Charlotte, North Carolina’s FOX News Rising investigates… using his very cute son as his guinea pig: Toddlers Playing Video Games More Than Ever [FOX Charlotte]
By Stephen Totilo Published January 23, 2012 -
Release Dates, Prices For Alan Wake and the Rest of the Xbox House Party
The Xbox 360 “House Party” of new downloadable games is official: Warp ($10, Feb 15), Alan Wake’s American Nightmare ($15, Feb 22), Nexuiz ($10, Feb 29) and I Am Alive ($15, March 7). You get $10 in Xbox Points if you buy them all.
By Stephen Totilo Published January 23, 2012 -
Call of Duty Is Now A Subscription Game—Only If You Want It To Be
Ever since the head of gaming giant Activision Blizzard said that the natural evolution of Call of Duty was for it to go massively multiplayer, it’s been fair to wonder when Activision Blizzard would turn their biggest hit into a subscription game—a game you pay to keep playing. Then they denied that they’d ever charge…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 23, 2012 -
The Best Video Games, According to Kotaku
People often ask us which games to get for their favorite systems. These are our answers. The Best Wii U Games | The Best PS Vita Games | The Best Xbox 360 Games | The Best Facebook Games | The Best PS3 Games | The Best PC Games | The Best Wii Games | The…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 23, 2012 -
ESA Drops SOPA Support, Video Game Lobby Laments Bill’s ‘Unintended Consequences’
The Entertainment Software Association no longer supports the Stop Online Piracy Act, the controversial anti-piracy bill that was shelved earlier today in the House of Representatives after a week of fierce online protests. The people who bring us E3 simply don’t want to bring us SOPA anymore. The bill’s got problems, they say. “From the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2012 -
Report: BioWare Wanted to Make a Marvel Comics MMO, But Made a Star Wars One Instead
A fascinating report in the Los Angeles Times about Star Wars: The Old Republic ought to get some attention for pegging the cost of making the massively multiplayer game at $200 million. But for fans of the game’s developers at BioWare—and for fans of some of the cooler pieces of pop fiction around—there’s another detail…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2012 -
The Pentagon Wants You To Play Video Games That Will Improve Their Weapons
The military has a problem. Its weapon systems run on computer code that could have up to five bugs per thousand lines of code and it does not think there are enough experts in America to test their code sufficiently. And robots? They can’t get the job done either. But you could help. The Pentagon…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2012 -
Adios, SOPA. House Shelves Bill Indefinitely.
The Stop Online Piracy Act continues to fizzle and is for all intents and purposes dead. Congressman Lamar Smith, who wrote the law and staunchly defended it for weeks amid protests that it would disrupt online speech, announced today he is postponing any further action on the bill: “I have heard from the critics and…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2012 -
If Minecraft Can Have a Dragon, It Can Also Have These Helicopters
There’s not much an enterprising modder couldn’t add to Minecraft, so of course someone has added helicopters. Check out the Minecraft Helicopter Mod if you want to get the choppas. [Thanks, Steve!]
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2012 -
Is the Shutdown of MegaUpload Hurting or Helping Your Gaming Life? Let Us Know
The Feds shut down massive file-sharing site Megaupload yesterday. Were you a gamer that depended on it? Were you a developer who saw pirated copies of your game distributed on it? Were you one of the people the Feds say Megaupload paid to upload pirated material? Or maybe you were a user who can vouch…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2012 -
Take a Look at Mass Effect 3‘s Mars
Mass Effect 3 won’t just bring Commander Shepard to Earth. He/She is going to Mars. Briefly, according to series writer Mac Walters, during an interview last night with Game Trailers TV‘s Geoff Keighley. Check out a short glimpse of ME3‘s Mars action in the video below, which contains the entire Mass Effect 3/Modern Warfare 3…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2012 -
Hey, Seattle Gamers and Game Developers, Show Us Your Snow!
We hear that Seattle is covered in ice and snow is a total mess. We’ve even got this picture from near the offices of Bellevue-based developer 5th Cell to prove it. Are you in Seattle and covered in the snowpocalyspe? Show us in the comments section below. We want to see your winter wonderland. The…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 19, 2012 -
Ex-Police Chief Admits He Stole FBI’s Xboxes
There are things you shouldn’t do when you’re the police chief. One of them is stealing the Xboxes that the FBI planted in a car because they thought you were dirty. Former East Saint Louis police chief Michael Baxton plead guilty yesterday to doing just that. From the Belleville News Democrat‘s story about Baxton’s plea:…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 19, 2012 -
Rumor: Resident Evil 6 Hits This November
New of Resident Evil 6 leaked early today. The game will be out on November 20, 2012, according to some images snagged by IGN. It looks to be headed for XBox 360 and PlayStation 3. IGN tried to get RE publisher Capcom to confirm, but they got the standard not-commenting-on-rumors thing. The viral site nohopeleft.com…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 19, 2012 -
More Senators Abandon PIPA, But Lead Author Says Blackout Sites Wouldn’t Have Been Affected
Support for PIPA, the Senate version of the notorious Stop Online Piracy Act, is dwindling faster than most media outlets can keep up with them. If you woke up to an article today that reported that X number of Senators have dropped their support for the Protect IP Act, you can assume they under-counted. Many…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 19, 2012
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