In 2003, Axel Gembe got his hands on the game everybody wanted, Valve’s Half-Life 2. He hacked into the developer’s network and swiped the game’s source code—which eventually wound up on the internet. These days, Gembe says he’s “very sorry” about that.
This game of one-upmanship between Sony and the PS3 modders is getting seriously heated. Responding to the news that Sony was permabanning modded consoles, a new hack claims to worm into the PSN and allow people to unban themselves.
The hack can also be used to ban another console, although they'd need access to that console's ID, which would have to be obtained from a refurb warehouse/secondhand seller or willingly given up by an idiot.
Sony continues its battle against the PS3 hack and officially announces that it is going to use the “doomsday weapon” and begin banning hacked consoles from the network.
PlayStation’s official blog stated that the company is going to cancel access of consoles located by it as hacked to the PSN network and in reality disconnecting them from the wide world. This means that gamers who hacked their consoles will not be able to play mass online games, download content and demos from the PSN store or download updates to games and the console’s system.
Sony on Wednesday issued an edict: if a user hacks the PlayStation 3, that user will be banned for life from Sony's online services, permanently.
Sony Computer Entertainment posted the message on its PlayStation blog, along with some additional explanation. If a user uses some device, utility, or other methods to circumvent the copy protection used by the PlayStation 3, and Sony detects it, that user will be banned from the PlayStation Network and the Qriocity movie-streaming service permanently.
Those prolific Kinect hackers are at it again - and this time, they're throwing hadoukens.
I think we can all agree that no matter how we feel about Microsoft's Kinect as a gaming platform (that is, that it's not very good for gaming right now), it has been hacked into some things that are downright nifty.
A new iOS game has managed to knock Rovio’s Angry Birds from the number one spot on Apple’s iTunes App Store.
Robert Nay, a 14 year old from Utah, launched Bubble Ball under his own company Nay Games on Apple’s iOS platform.
Though there’s speculation that Microsoft will eventually provide Windows support for its Kinect hands-free control system for the Xbox 360, it seems like everybody is jumping the gun. Hackers have made it work with PCs almost from its launch, and now a Korean PC game developer is claiming its new title will support Kinect.
GamePrix told IncGamers that its game Divine Soul will include support for Kinect for its combat mode. The company also says that “there are many [PC] game companies that are trying to apply for this system.”
A federal appeals panel has upheld a ban on the distribution of a once-popular World of Warcraft bot in a sprawling ruling that is sure to anger just about everyone with a stake in the debate over whether gamers have the right to tweak the titles they play.
Blizzard Entertainment said that the latest chapter in its winning World of Warcraft online computer game franchise sold more than 3.3 million copies in just 24 hours on the market.
Cataclysm snatched the crown for fastest-selling computer game from Wrath of the Lich King software released in 2008 as the second expansion to the franchise.
A single-player role-playing game scheduled for release next year is expected to become a popular item among PC gamers — and pirates are already licking their chops at the chance to pirate CD Projekt’s The Witcher 2 video game.
The Witcher 2 will be released in May 2011, and the game studio would like at least 1.3 million units sold. Despite the threat towards pirates, The Witcher 2 will not have DRM protecting it against piracy — but game pirates will ultimately face monetary fines and possible legal action if caught pirating the game.
