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News Blips: A fifth of PS3 owners seeking to jump ship, PSN credit card data was encrypted, Knights Templar call for violent game ban, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 29, 2011
2 min

If you're preparing to send your PlayStation 3 to the gallows, be sure to keep in mind the console's useful ecological applications such as...

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Marvel Entertainment’s new MMO game will be free to play

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 29, 2011
2 min

Marvel Entertainment’s new Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) super-hero game will be free to play, the company announced yesterday at a San Francisco event with...

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Sony reassures PlayStation Network customers that their game data isn’t lost

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 29, 2011
1 min

Sony said today that the malicious attack against the PlayStation Network did not result in the loss of customers’ game data. While the incident...

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Hackers brag they have PlayStation Network credit card numbers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 29, 2011
2 min

Hackers are saying on underground internet chat rooms that they are in possession of the credit card numbers of Sony’s PlayStation Network customers, the...

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Video Blips: Phantasy Star Online 2, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, Binary Domain, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 29, 2011
1 min

Phantasy Star Online 2 is a clear indication that the Sega gods deemed us worthy enough again to mindlessly grind on aliens using sword-shaped...

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Heyzap scores 4.6M users in two months for mobile game check-ins

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 28, 2011
2 min

Heyzap launched a way for gamers to “check in” to mobile games on Android a couple of months ago and has already reached 4.6...

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Xbox and Kinect shine in Microsoft earnings report

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 28, 2011
2 min

The Xbox and Kinect motion controller are again Microsoft’s brightest stars as the company posted strong earnings and 60 percent growth in its entertainment...

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Hacker Geohot denies involvement in PlayStation Network attack, blames Sony’s hubris

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 28, 2011
2 min

One potential suspect behind Sony’s massive PlayStation Network security breach was 21-year old George Hotz, AKA Geohot, who recently settled a lawsuit with the...

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Sony says hacked PlayStation Network credit card data was encrypted

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 28, 2011
2 min

Sony said yesterday that all credit card information on its hacked PlayStation Network was protected with encryption. As the outage for the online game...

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40 percent of Apple game downloads are free titles with in-app purchases

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 28, 2011
2 min

Free-to-play games have become huge on Apple’s App Store in the past 19 months. Almost 40 percent of game downloads are now free titles...

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