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.
It reads like fan fiction and the rumour’s original reporter — who uncovered PlayStation All-Stars six months before it was announced — concedes that nothing about it is confirmed. But Retro Studios is said to be working on, or at least to have considered, Star Fox-Metroid Fusion Saga, a mashup of third-person action gameplay with aerial/space combat.
We’ve been hearing bits and pieces about Microsoft’s alleged Xbox successor, codenamed Durango, since March of last year. Now we have another scrap to add — it’s been reported that a company working for Microsoft has already started assembling the hardware for its next-generation console.
A marketing survey conducted by Sony suggests it’s pondering content changes to PlayStation Plus, potentially including free, full-size Blu-Ray games on the day they release, and a free Call of Duty: Elite subscription, reports IGN.
We’ve heard rumours before that Konami would be releasing Metal Gear: Rising on the PlayStation Vita handheld in addition to home consoles. This page from the Vita presentation during the AT&T Developer Summit looks to reveal that in addition to the other franchises we already knew about (including Bioshock and Call of Duty), Metal Gear Solid: Rising will also be coming to the Vita.
Rumours have pegged this year’s Call of Duty as a sequel to the Treyarch-developed Black Ops. Now, an image of US Target pre-order cards running on IGN appears to confirm the title and show a release date of November 13.
On Friday, a user on the Flamehaus forums uploaded a very convincing PDF, complete with accompanying photo, of a book called Valve: Handbook For New Employees.
