The websites of Eve Online and Minecraft have been hit by cyber attacks, with hacker collective Lulzsec claiming responsibility for disrupting their online services.
CCP said this evening that space MMOG Eve Online and related services have been taken down as a security precaution following an attack, while indie world building hit Minecraft is back online after its operations were temporarily halted.
Lulzsec also claims to be behind an attack today on gaming site The Escapist, which remains offline at the time of writing.
The websites of Eve Online and Minecraft have been hit by cyber attacks, with hacker collective Lulzsec claiming responsibility for disrupting their online services.
CCP said this evening that space MMOG Eve Online and related services have been taken down as a security precaution following an attack, while indie world building hit Minecraft is back online after its operations were temporarily halted.
Lulzsec also claims to be behind an attack today on gaming site The Escapist, which remains offline at the time of writing.
Valve has introduced support for free-to-play games on its digital store Steam.
Launch titles Spiral Knights, Forsaken Worlds, Champions Online: Free For All, Global Agenda: Free Agent and Alliance Of Valliant Arms are available now.
It appears videogame skills translate to the real world after all: Lucas Ordoñez, the first-ever winner of PlayStation driving contest GT Academy in 2008, this weekend secured a podium finish at the Le Mans 24 Hours race in France.
Three years ago Ordoñez was an MBA student whose experience of the race track was limited to Gran Turismo. After setting the fastest time in the GT Academy time trial, he won the 2008 competition, and came second in the real-world GT4 Championship in his debut season.
Buzz developer Relentless Software's first release since the expiration of its exclusivity deal with Sony will be free to play, and co-founder Andrew Eades has told us: "I think that's how digital should work."
Speaking to us at E3, SCEE president Andrew House has set out his intentions for Sony's newly named Vita handheld, and why it won't repeat PSP's mistakes.
"When we launched the original PSP, we talked a lot about the potential for interoperability, or shared content between the devices," he said. "For whatever reasons, frankly that really never came to fulfilment – development challenges went against that.
Speaking to us at E3, SCEE president Andrew House has set out his intentions for Sony's newly named Vita handheld, and why it won't repeat PSP's mistakes.
"When we launched the original PSP, we talked a lot about the potential for interoperability, or shared content between the devices," he said. "For whatever reasons, frankly that really never came to fulfilment – development challenges went against that.
Sales of videogames last month in the USA fell to their lowest level since October 2006, according to market research firm NPD Group.
Total physical sales of console, portable and PC hardware and software were $743.1 million, a drop year on year of 14 per cent. Software sales were $400.1 million, a drop of 21 per cent from May 2010's $503.8 million.
Bethesda Softworks has confirmed that its websites were hacked over the weekend.
Though no financial information was taken in the attack, the publisher believes some usernames, email addresses and possibly passwords were compromised, and is advising that users change their passwords as a precaution.
"Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites to gain access to data," reads a statement on the Bethesda blog. "We believe we have taken appropriate action to protect our data against these attacks.
THQ has confirmed that it is to close Homefront developer Kaos Studios, as well as its UK studio Digital Warrington.
In a statement, the publisher said that it was closing the two studios, three months after the release of Homefront, as part of a "strategic realignment" that will see work on the continuing franchise passed to THQ Montreal.
Microsoft has revealed more of its future vision for Kinect: voice- and gesture-controlled interactive advertising on Xbox 360.
