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EA Happy To Swing Battlefield 3 Banhammer

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11:30AM November 13, 2011 | Logan Booker

Whether they’re stat boosting or straight-up hacking the Gibson, Battlefield 3 players with a penchant for the illegitimate should be aware that EA has just banned “hundreds” of accounts for not competing all fair-like. More »


News

Resistance Site, Forums Down; Hacking Alleged

2:00AM November 13, 2011 | Owen Good

Visitors to MyResistance.net, the official site for the Resistance franchise of PS3 games, say the site was serving up malware yesterday. One of them alerted Insomniac Games, and now the entire site has been taken offline for maintenance. More »


Nintendo

Xbox 360 Has Hidden Solution To Nintendo 3DS Screen Woes

6:20AM August 4, 2011 | Jen Schiller

If you own (and use) a Nintendo 3DS, you’ve probably noticed that the system’s top screen can get marked up and scratched rather easily, just by closing and carrying it around for the sake of Street Passing. More »


In Real Life

The LulzSec Manifesto: More Sec Than Lulz

4:00AM June 18, 2011 | Brian Barrett

In honour of its thousandth tweet—and on the heels of compromising the websites of the CIA, US Senate, Sony, and more—the crew of the good ship LulzSec has presented the world with a manifesto, of sorts. So who is LulzSec? And is it they want? More »


News

Sega Hacked, Says Payment Info Not Compromised

3:40AM June 18, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Sega joins Bethesda, Codemasters and Sony among the gaming companies to suffer a hack. The personal info of users of its Sega Pass online service users was compromised, but payment data was not. More »


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Turns Out Kinect Can Read Sign Language

1:00PM May 19, 2011 | Owen Good

Kinect’s patent application said the device could recognise American Sign Language. Microsoft then backed off the claim, at least for the initial generation of the device, saying that sort of application would be supported in later models. Then people started developing open-source Kinect drivers and doing all sorts of cool things with them. And lo and behold, the commercially available Kinect recognises sign language. More »


PC

Can You Spot This Guy’s Tell Playing Online Poker With Kinect?

10:30AM May 7, 2011 | Owen Good

If you can’t spot the sucker in the first 30 seconds of this video, then you are the sucker. More »


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Is Portal 2 Controlled With Kinect A Good Thing?

4:00AM May 2, 2011 | Owen Good

I’m on the fence with this, but as Portal 2 has elements of a first-person shooter, and that genre is tricky to adapt for Kinect, it looks like a breakthrough to me. Here someone has hacked Kinect, using FAAST (the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit), to play Portal 2. Firing a portal is accomplished by extending one’s arm 18 inches forward. Leaning and arm and leg gestures control movement and looking. More »


PC

Microsoft’s Kinect Dev Kit Makes You A Universal Remote Control

7:40AM April 26, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

This autumn, Microsoft will release an official software development kit for its Kinect camera, catching up to the open source community and giving fully sanctioned creative control of its motion sensing Xbox 360 controller. Here’s Microsoft’s pitch on what Kinect can do in the hands of, well, anyone. More »


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Modders Take Flight With This Kinect-Controlled Drone

7:00AM April 10, 2011 | Owen Good

Self-described hacker Tom Zickel serves up the latest Kinect mod – this time manipulating the flight of an AR Drone (this one a Parrot Quadricopter) using hand gestures recognised by Kinect. More »