Microsoft has responded to our earlier report of Xbox Live accounts being “jacked” via the “social engineering” of support staff.
For months now, Xbox 360 owners have been complaining of a surge in account thefts, incidents when people wake up one day to find themselves no longer with access (or even possession) of their own Xbox Live accounts anymore.
A small percentage of League of Legends players have been using an exploit that lets them cast powerful spells one right after another. The exploit let players add more points to the game’s Mastery system that would normally be allowed. But LoL developer Riot Games says such tactics are “bull****” and made moves to fix the loophole that made the cheat possible as soon as they heard about it.
Valve CEO Gabe Newell said today in a statement to Steam users that as a result of a hack last November, it is “probable” that hackers have obtained a backup file with information on Steam transactions performed between 2004 and 2008. The compromised material includes user names, email addresses, encrypted billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. It does not include Steam passwords.
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.
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.
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.
