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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

PlayStation Vita hack solves expensive memory card issue - PSV

The PlayStation Vita ridiculously over-priced storage is a big negative for the handheld console. The standard OS Vita required a specifically designed card, ranging from 4GB to 64GB (the newer slim models have a built-in 1GB memory).


Not only are they expensive the special memory cards are still hard to get hold of, even though the PlayStation Vita is now 5-years-old. A 64GB card should hold all your gaming requirements, but it's difficult to find, and buy one, one for under £100 (€115).

Thursday, December 25, 2014

PSN and Xbox Live hacked on Christmas day or just busy?


Every Christmas, as thousands of new used open their new consoles on Christmas day the Playstation and Xbox networks struggle.



But as the issues happen hackers claim it's their efforts taht are causing the problems. The gamezplay view is just the number of exisitng and new users jointing.

Only time will tell.

Thursday, August 08, 2013

Nintendo takes 'Hack your console' website to court



In the ongoing global fight against video game piracy, Nintendo of America Inc., has filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida against the owner of HackYourConsole.com. The site blatantly promotes and sells unauthorized Nintendo games along with devices and services that circumvent the security in the Nintendo DS system and the Wii console.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Video Game 'Legends Of Aethereus' Receives Kickstarter Campaign



ThreeGates today announced a Kickstarter campaign to raise $25,000 for its forthcoming co-op Hack-n-Slash Action game, Legends of Aethereus. The game successfully completed a closed beta over the past month as it ramps up the polish phase in preparation for launch. But polish and the additional time to make the game great is expensive and ThreeGates is asking the community to show their support so when the game goes live, it’s as fun and high-quality as possible. To support the project, please visit: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460738485/legends-of-aethereus-co-op-hack-n-slash-action-gam

Sunday, July 10, 2011

How to save Angry Birds games data before Mine and Dine update - iPhone Android PC Mac

The Angry Birds 'Mine and Dine' update could put your game data at risk here's how to back it up before the update.

Key files to look out for are highscores.lua and settings.lua – copy them to your PC or Mac BEFORE you update. After applying the update replace them on your phone again your game data will be restored.


Here's where to find the files...

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Sony email apology for Hacked PSN accounts

Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. The following email has been sent to all PSN registrants; please read the help and support FAQ for more information.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Credit card details may have been stolen in PlayStation Network hack...

PlayStation Network and Qriocity services remain down days after Sony reacted to the hacking of their network. Sony cannot assure customers that their credit card and other user information was not stolen in the attack.

Monday, March 07, 2011

US court allow Sony to identify visitors to PS3 hacker's website

Sony has been granted a subpoena by a US court in its legal battle against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz. This allows the media giant to view his website's visitor logs as it attempts to examine the reach of the PS3 jailbreak.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

New PS3 jailbreak allows gamers to undo PSN bans - PS3

A new jailbreak has been released which reportedly allows users to unban themselves on PSN following Sony's move to block PS3 hackers from PS3 online functions.

Saturday, September 06, 2008

How to stop or protect your XBox live account getting hacked or compromised

http://gamezplay.org video games
Here are some steps you can take to protect yourself.

Some of the common mistakes that lead to users being targeted and some steps to follow:

No1 Mistake: You give away your account password to a Web site advertising free Microsoft Points.
Tip: "It's extremely difficult to recover an account in this situation. If you use that password for anything else, there's a good chance the same hackers are now busy using that password combination on Amazon, eBay, CraigsList, bank accounts, etc."
No2 Mistake: You routinely trade your gamertag around with friends.
Tip: "Passing gamertags makes it easy for people to trade Achievements together or play parts of a game they have not unlocked yet. If you are trading with multiple people and one of them ever gets compromised, a hacker has your gamertag and others' as well."
No3 Mistake: Someone guesses or otherwise obtains your details (such as the answer to your secret question) and resets your password.
Tip: "It's important to remember not to give out personal information. One good thing you can do is change the answer to your secret question. If you make the answer completely unrelated to the question (i.e. Question: What is your favorite TV show? Answer: Avril Lavigne), you're essentially creating a second password."
As social engineering does not involve actual "hacking," it's a difficult and expensive problem to solve. Coming up with proper defenses rests in the hands of Microsoft.

In the meantime, maybe it's time to change your password.

Source: MTV News

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Zelda Twilight Princess Hack Bootloader Updated - Supports Internal SD Slot Now!

Booting homebrew on your Wii is getting to be a thing that’s gaining a lot of momentum these days. Ever since Team Twiizer’s Twilight Princess chainloader hit the Internet, there’s been a good deal of homebrew development flowering out from the little crack they made in the Wii’s more or less solid defense system.

However, it looked like the biggest obstacle to flowers firing from the aforementioned crack like water from a leaky dyke was that you needed an SD Gecko or a USB Gecko to load anything – and do some pretty wacky boot sector surgery on your SD card.

Well, with the alpha 3 release of the TP hack, you can use your Wii’s internal SD slot! And you can survive without having to muck about with boot sectors and such. Just throw the .elf onto the root of your card, and you’re good to go. This is some pretty exciting news! Hopefully this thing continues to develop!

The process doesn’t break anything, and it’s actually very easy. Check this out if you want to give it the ol’ college try. However, if you’re squeamish (or you just plain don’t have the required tools), I have a video up on YouTube demonstrating the process and the result.

Click link below to watch

YouTube video

WiiBrew page on Nintendo Wii hack

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Automated Guitar Hero Hack: How Bad Do You Want to Stop Sucking?

Watch the video on Gismodo
David Randolph of SYSTM has developed a hack for Guitar Hero that will turn even the most rhythmically challenged among us into virtual virtuosos.

In fact, it will do all of the work for you by playing each note automatically.

Now, before you get all excited about the gambling potential of a hack like this, keep in mind that it will take skill, a lot of time, and around $500 in parts alone to pull off.

Then again, you could always make up the cash by betting your friends you can hit 100% of the notes on expert.

Watch the video on Gismodo

Source: Gismodo

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Wii Homebrew add Linux emulators, mp3, how to get home brew on the Wii


"Fans of Homebrew on the Nintendo Wii can celebrate with an explosion of releases today, in just a few hours there has been a release of a proof of concept version of Linux for the Wii, an MP3 Player, the Super Nintendo emulator Snes9X has been ported and a converter that converts Gamecube Dol files into Elf for usage on the Wii (Which opens up a multitude of emulators and homebrew games and applications).

A tutorial on how to get homebrew working with the Twilight Hack will help those interested."

Source: Slashdot games

Saturday, December 01, 2007

Hackers say they can steal 'Second Life' currency

Over on Dean Takahashi's San Jose Mercury News blog today, he reported on the discovery by a pair of security researchers that it may be possible to steal Second Life users' in-world currency.

That would be a big problem, of course, because the currency, known as Linden dollars, are directly convertible to U.S. dollars.

According to Takahashi's story, hackers Charles Miller and Dino Dai Zovi told him that they have uncovered an exploit that could allow someone to fleece Second Life residents of their Linden dollars.

The exploit is related to Apple's QuickTime software, which is used to display videos in Second Life.

"The exploit works because Second Life allows users to embed videos or pictures on their characters or their virtual property," Takahashi wrote. "When someone comes nearby and is within view of the object, the Second Life software activates QuickTime so it can play the video or picture. In doing so, QuickTime directs the Second Life software to a Web site. By exploiting the flaw in QuickTime, the hackers can direct the Second Life software to a malicious Web site that then allows them to take over the Second Life avatar.

The end result of that could be that a malicious hacker could then strip the avatar of any Linden dollar holdings.

For its part, Takahashi wrote, Linden Lab told him that the exploit is easily patched. Nonetheless, the company put up a warning on its blog Friday.

Takahashi said that Linden Lab told him, "We were alerted a short time ago by Internet security professionals that a QuickTime exploit has been discovered which may allow an attacker to crash or exploit any user of the QuickTime software from Apple. The Second Life viewer uses QT to play videos and therefore this exploit could potentially affect the residents of Second Life. This exploit affects all platforms that use QuickTime and, to date, Apple has not released a fix for it."

To date, however, Takahashi wrote, Linden Lab said it isn't aware of anyone actually using the exploit to rob anyone.

For residents of Second Life, then, the solution may be to avoid holding onto large numbers of Linden dollars.

As I told Takahashi when he asked me to comment for his story on Linden dollar security, "As one SL business owner said to me...you should always have a backup plan in case of a glitch that causes you to lose everything, because you never know what might happen. And in the case of Linden dollars, that likely means doing regular (Linden dollar/U.S. dollar) exchanges so as not to keep too many Lindens in your SL account. You can't lose what's not there."

More here...

Friday, November 30, 2007

TeliaSonera and Cisco provide Dreamhack with the fastest internet connection in the world


Just an hour or so ago, Dreamhack, the world’s largest computer festival officially opened in Jönköping, Sweden. At the same time, the fastest internet access in the world was also launched. TeliaSonera and Cisco are providing the technology that offers an internet connection speed of 40 gigabits per second. Over the course of the festival, the 15,000 visitors will enjoy an unrivalled broadband and gaming experience.

This is a Multimedia News Release
The pressrelease, still pictures in high resolution and videos (animations, interviews with participants and organisers and pictures from the event) look here:
http://www.world-television.se/world_television.se/mnr_stat/mnr/TeliaSonera/294/

TeliaSonera är det ledande telekommunikationsföretaget i Norden och Baltikum med starka positioner inom mobil kommunikation i Eurasien, Turkiet och Ryssland. I slutet av 2006 lanserade vi mobiltjänster i Spanien. TeliaSonera är den ledande europeiska leverantören av internationella röst-, IP- och kapacitetstjänster som vi erbjuder via vårt eget helägda internationella carrier-nät. 2006 omsatte TeliaSonera 91 miljarder kr och i mars 2007 översteg det totala antalet kunder 100 miljoner i 15 länder. TeliaSonera är noterat på Stockholmsbörsen och Helsingfors börs. Företaget finns med på Dow Jones index för hållbar utveckling. Vi ser enkelhet och service som viktiga verktyg för att skapa lönsam tillväxt och värde för våra kunder och aktieägare. Läs mer på www.teliasonera.se

Friday, November 02, 2007

Hackers put violence back into censored Manhunt 2


PSP version tampered with less than 24 hours after release

Hackers have already tampered with the code of Rockstar's Manhunt 2 to reinstate the violent scenes and images thought to have been removed from the game.

The PSP version of the controversial title has been exploited less than 24 hours since the game was officially released in North America.

The PlayStation 2 version of the game had already been distributed across the internet via torrent sites, a move that Rockstar has blamed on Sony Computer Entertainment.

The game has been censored in the US in order for it to receive an M rating – and therefore a release – rather than the original AO rating it was given by the ESRB.

The illegal exploit of the original PSP code indicates that the scenes that were cut in order to secure an M rating were not removed from the full game, rather disabled, much like the Hot Coffee mini-games in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Source: Games Industry