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Everything you wanted to know about Xbox hacking
Cracking gameplay laid bare Analysis Hacking and phishing threats that PC users have suffered for years are now becoming part and parcel of the online gaming experience for users of Microsoft’s Xbox console. …
Continue reading »Game developers warn FCC of "balkanized" Internet
A team of online game developers and boosters told the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday about worries that the big ISPs could fragment the Internet with “pay-for-priority” arrangements, causing economic troubles for the gaming industry similar to those created by mobile access providers. “Software platform developers like Microsoft and Facebook pose less of a threat to innovation than infrastructure owners,” one developer told the agency, according to notes of the meeting . He added that “if the Internet were balkanized, and developers had to negotiate separately with each ISP, that would be a substantial drag on innovation because it would divert resources from development.”
Continue reading »Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent’s ISP to Court
After the news broke that The Pirate Bay owners would sell the site to Global Gaming Factory, an independent tracker OpenBitTorrent (OBT) was launched. Due to its public nature, OBT was seen by some as a possible replacement for The Pirate Bay tracker. Even though the sale never went through, OpenBitTorrent has proved its worth recently, since the Pirate Bay tracker had been struggling to stay online.
Continue reading »Game Developer Promotes Game on Torrent Sites
Last summer the gaming company RedLynx decided to market its new game Trials 2 on various BitTorrent sites. Instead of worrying that the game might end up being pirated, the company decided to upload the bike game themselves as a promotional tool. “Piracy is here, so how can we take advantage of that?
Continue reading »Sony sued over PS3 update that supposedly bricks consoles
Firmware and system updates tend to make this generation of console owners more than a little skittish when they first become available for download. It makes sense: nearly every time an update comes out, news stories spring up across the web about how a number of consoles have been bricked by the new software. History seems to be repeating itself with the PlayStation 3 v3.00 firmware update , which was launched in September.
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