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Blockbuster UK finds buyer
Restructuring and investment firm Gordon Brothers Europe bought Blockbuster UK over the weekend. The multimedia rental and sales chain entered administration in January, a month which also saw Blockbuster's US arm close a further 300 stores. Gordon Brothers Europe acquired the retailer's 264 UK stores, with the BBC reporting 2000 jobs may be saved as a result. How much th ...read more
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Mojang's Scrolls beta unravels at 'end of April'
Minecraft developer Mojang is targeting a late April release for an early PC beta of its next game, Scrolls. Speaking to Polygon in an interview, studio co-founder and game designer Jakob Porser said, "We'll release it early at a discount. With the help from our community, we'll take the game to the next level and see what we want ...read more
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Microsoft report reveals over 75k law enforcement requests in 2012
Similar to Google's Transparency Report Microsoft has released a report detailing the amount of information requests by law enforcement for user information. They have stated that they intend to released a report detailing this information every six months from here on in. The company's report suggests that they received 75,378 reports in 2012, if they had acted on every request it would have affected 137,424 unique accounts or two one-hundredths of one percent of the entire userbase.
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EA's Origin Leaves Gamers Vulnerable to Hackers
Research group ReVuln has found a potentially dangerous URI exploit within EA's Origin client which could leave as many as 40 million gamers vulnerable. The ReVuln team gave a presentation last week at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam. Apparently, getting someone to click on an "origin://" prefixed link is all it t ...read more
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US 'hacktivist' jailed over AT&T network attack
A US 'hacktivist' who broke into telecommunication giant AT&T's network and stole contact details for 120,000 iPad owners has been sentenced to 41 months in jail. Andrew Auernheimer, aka Weev, stole the email addresses by exploiting a bug in the way AT&T set up its network. Auernheimer passed the addresses to a journalist clai ...read more
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SimCity sales pass 1.1 million despite launch debacle
Even after all the issues during its launch, SimCity, has managed to sell over 1.1 million copies during its first two weeks post launch. According to EA reports this SimCity launch is the largest in its franchise. Out of the over million copies sold 54% of them were downloaded via Origin while 44% of total sales were done completely through Origin.
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EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down
Electronic Arts' John Riccitiello is stepping down as chief executive officer. He submitted his resignation to EA's board of directors today. Effective March 30, former EA president and CEO Larry Probst will step in as executive chairman while the company searches for a replacement. "We appreciate John's leadership and the many important strategic initi ...read more
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EA Offers Choice of 8 Free Games as SimCity Apology
As an apology for the bugs that have been plaguing the game since its launch, EA is offering owners of SimCity the option to choose one free game from a list of eight titles. Anyone who has already purchased, or purchases the game before March 25th will be able to claim one of the following games for free: -Battlefie ...read more
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Announced, Shipping in April
Samsung has announced its worst kept secret, but nonetheless exciting Galaxy S4. Revealed at tonight's Unpacked event in New York City, the Galaxy S4 will take the mantle of the Galaxy S III as Samsung's new flagship smartphone, sporting a massive 5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display with a pixel density of 441ppi — a significant leap ...read more
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iPhone 5S may include fingerprint sensor and NFC
Its appears that Apple may be adding NFC and fingerprint technology into the iPhone 5S with a report suggesting that the company will use the fingerprint sensor to improve the security of NFC features such as payment handling. China Times has reported that Chipbond,a chinese chipmaker , was selected by Apple to manufacture these components for use in the iPhone 5S.
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