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News Blips: Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, large tweaks for Mass Effect 3, Anonymous denies causing PSN breach, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 6, 2011
2 min

Most of us know that Ubisoft is prone to leaking out morsels of data on its new projects, but I suppose Ezio's fresh chocolate-colored...

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Hackers plotting third attack against Sony after Playstation Network outage

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 6, 2011
2 min

The hackers that cracked into Sony’s online gaming network, the Playstation Network (PSN), are plotting another attack against the gaming giant this weekend and...

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Video Blips: Rage, Duke Nukem Forever, Brink, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 6, 2011
1 min

A typical day of a bandit in the post-apocalyptic world of Rage: Wake up, strap on cumbersome filtration mask, pillage local settlement, return to...

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Sony offers $1M insurance policy to protect U.S. PSN users from identity theft

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2011
2 min

Sony said in a blog post today that it will offer free enrollment in an identity theft protection program for all U.S. members of...

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Sony chief Howard Stringer apologizes to gamers for PSN outage

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2011
3 min

Saying, “I know this has been a frustrating time for all of you,” Sony chief executive Howard Stringer apologized tonight for the outage and...

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Sony in ‘final stages of internal testing’ to bring Playstation Network back online

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 5, 2011
2 min

Sony has entered the final stages of internal testing to bring its beleaguered online gaming network, the Playstation Network (PSN), back online after a massive hacker...

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IGN confirms purchase of game media firm UGO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 5, 2011
2 min

IGN Entertainment, the game media division of News Corp., confirmed today that it has acquired UGO Entertainment to create a global media powerhouse. The...

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Facebook tests video ads inside social games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 5, 2011
2 min

Facebook is testing a new way to make money from video ads that embedded inside games on the social network. In a deal with...

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Security expert: Sony used outdated software before Playstation Network breach

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 5, 2011
2 min

When hackers cracked the Playstation network and stole sensitive information from more than 100 milli users, Sony on was running the network on older...

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Five minutes of Rage trailer shows its the shooter to beat

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 5, 2011
2 min

id Software released another trailer of its Rage video game today. It shows that this game, which represents the state of the art in the...

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