Last April, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was compromised when a hacker corrupted the game causing Xbox Live to send out "potential phishing attempts." That problem received immediate attention from Microsoft and Infinity Ward, and the issue has since been resolved. So why is it that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has been experiencing hacking problems on Xbox Live since February 2011, but nothing has been done about it?
Games which are developed using WebGL and are designed to run in a web broswer are leaving your PC open to back door hackers, according to consultants at Context Information Security, who claim to have found “serious flaws” in the design of the platform which is designed to give streaming games control of local resources on your PC.
The problem, according to Context, is that graphics drivers simply haven’t been written to allow remote access.
Rovio, the developer behind the mega popular mobile phone game Angry Birds could go public, but if it does it won't happen for some time. Reuters reports via a Finnish business daily story that Rovio's Chief Marketing Officer Peter Vesterbacka said that the company could start selling stocks to the public " ... in three to four years, but we are not in a hurry." He added that going public is still a better option for Rovio rather than selling the company.
Earlier today Sony provided some more details around what the company is doing in regards to the PlayStation Network service outage. It appears that the company is indeed building out some additional infrastructure for PSN.
The PlayStation Network outages may take longer than expected to fix. In an update on the PlayStation Blog corporate communications director Patrick Seybold said it might last "a full day or two."
While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we’re able to get the service completely back up and running. Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this matter. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and we'll update you again as soon as we can.
Despite all of Nintendo’s attempts to block R4 flash carts from working on their DS handhelds, the hackers and pirates always seemed to prevail. For every firmware update and hardware revision Nintendo pushed out to squash game pirating, the hackers worked with twice the force, finding a workaround to get illegal ROMs back up in a matter of days. With their next handheld, the 3DS, Nintendo is confident that it can keep pirated games at bay.
Back in January, I wrote about a group of Scandinavian gamers who hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server and bandwidth to host their "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions, which resulted in some 230,000 patients having their personal information put at risk. In getting reaction to that story, Stephen Heaslip of the gamer site Blues News told me that hackers are not the most likely individuals to use corporate servers for illicit gaming: Such appropriations are more often the work of IT administrators.
Children are falling asleep in the classroom after playing computer games all night, a concerned teacher warned this week. Recovered addict Tom Meltzer knows why they're hooked.
"I would say I was playing 15 hours a day at the peak," self-confessed gaming addict Daniel, now 24, says. "I kind of half block it out because I hated school so much but the worst year I can remember was when I was playing EverQuest. I was 16 and I was getting up at two in the morning and going downstairs to my mum's laptop to play. I was up until eight and then I'd get back into bed saying I was ill."
There's a creepy thing happening in a back corner of Apple's App Store: A handful of games published by Chinese developers appear to use in-app purchases to wipe out users' iTunes gift card credit.
The situation was brought to light by TheNextWeb, which cited an outpouring of angst on Apple's own support pages, where users complained of similarly suspicious charges from "Hongbin Suo" and "GAMEISLIVE CORPORATION LIMITED."
