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PS Vita gets hacked to run Sega Genesis games
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-01-05 00:50
The race is on. Proving that no gadget is hack-proof, homebrew developers have discovered an exploit in the PS Vita and have used it to get Sega Genesis games running on the handheld.
On the market (Asian) for a little over two weeks, the PS Vita got its first "Hello World" just before the end of 2011 and now, the next level of hacking has begun.
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Nintendo 3DS sales hit three million
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2011-12-09 09:15
Nintendo has sold over three million units of the 3DS portable gaming system, with president of the Japanese gaming company Satoru Iwata saying that he felt the console had "regained its momentum."
Much of this resurgence in 3DS gaming has been put down to new versions of first party titles like Mario Kart, which sold almost half a million copies in the first few days of December. In the same week of its release, Nintendo was able to push over 215,000 3DS consoles in Japan alone.
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Data of 13 mln S.Korean online game subscribers hacked
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2011-11-28 06:43
South Korea's communications regulator said on Saturday that personal information of more than 13 million subscribers of a popular online game of Nexon Korea Corp, a leading game developer in the country, had been leaked in a hacking attack.
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said in a statement Nexon reported to the commission late Friday afternoon that the company on Thursday discovered the leakage of personal data of its online game Maple Story's 13.2 million subscribers.
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1,600 Modern Warfare 3 Players Banned For Cheating
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sun, 2011-11-20 21:19
As the saying goes, cheaters never win. While it doesn't always prove true, a huge number of cheaters definitely won't make it to the end of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Infinity Ward has banned more than 1,600 players from MW3 for cheating using glitches uncovered in the new game.
ComputerAndVideoGames.com reported that the number of banned MW3 players is expected to rise as more people exploit these illegal loopholes.
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Microsoft freezes some Xbox accounts after hacks reported
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2011-10-20 01:41
Microsoft has frozen some Xbox Live accounts after online gamers reported they were hacked, and that their credit cards were used to purchase content for another video game.
The gaming website Eurogamer was alerted to the issue Oct. 11 from a reader who said the credit card associated with his gaming account was drained to purchase a content pack for "FIFA 12," the popular soccer game made by Electronic Arts for the Xbox 360.
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