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Teen charged for theft of RuneScape currency
When an attempt to buy 4.7 billion RuneScape coins with counterfeit money didn't work, 19 year old Humza Bajwa pulled a fake gun on the seller and demanded he transfer the coins. David Emani and Jonathan Dokler of Fordham University agreed to sell their RuneScape coins for $3,300 to fellow student Humza Bajwa. Bajwa thought he'd fool Emani with counterfeit money, but when Emani didn't fall for ...read more
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Ouya tops $8.5 million as Kickstarter campaign comes to a close
"We've been blown away the whole time," Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman said this afternoon, just 10 hours ahead of her company's Kickstarter project reaching its end. It's an understandable reaction considering the Android-based open-source console aimed to gather just $950K in total – the project lept over $1 million in its first eight hours, and crested over $8 million this afternoon. The final number ...read more
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Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft service compromised
In a statement posted on the Blizzard website, Mike Morhaime said: "This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard". Email addresses for global Battle.net users outside of China have been illegally acquired, the CEO revealed. Answers to users' personal security questions, as well as information relating to mobile and dial-in ...read more
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YouTube app won't be pre-loaded on iOS 6 devices
A couple of months ago, Apple announced it would have its own mobile map app for iOS 6, dumping its previous support for Google Maps. Now yet another well known Google made app won't be available out of the box for iOS 6-based devices when Apple launches the next update for its OS later this year. Bloomberg reports that, according to a spokesperson from Apple, the iOS YouTube app won't be ...read more
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Demonoid torrent tracker shut down by Ukrainian police
Last week thousands of Demonoid users feared the worst when their beloved site disappeared from the Internet. Many thought that the site had been busted, but were eventually relieved to hear that it was ‘only’ a massive DDoS attack. But today the roller-coaster ride plummeted to new depths, with confirmation coming out of Ukraine that the DDoS was just the beginning – the site has been ...read more
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Activision stock may rise 50 percent with Pandaria, CoD Online
Activision Blizzard may see its share price increase as much as 50 percent as it prepares to launch the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft and Call of Duty Online in China, financial newsweekly Barron's reports. Activision Blizzard is currently trading at $11.25, after reporting Q2 earnings above expectations but below the previous year, bringing in $1.08 million. Investors ...read more
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Final Fantasy VII PC released early, then pulled
Yes, it is possible for a game to be considered "released early" in 2012 even after having been originally made in 1997. The new PC version of Final Fantasy VII showed up for sale on the website last night, according to reports on the forums. The problem is that the downloaded copies don't work yet. The automatic license activation (through the SecuROM DRM) failed for those who bought it, and ...read more
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Call of Duty Online ‘could launch in other countries’
Call of Duty Online -the free-to-play shooter that draws together maps from Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – is only available in China, but Activision says it could launch it elsewhere. Activision’s CEO of publishing unit was quizzed about the possibility of Call of Duty Online launching in other markets. “I think we look at the Call of Duty Online game in China on ...read more
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MineCon 2012 going to Disneyland Paris this November
Where on Earth can you hang out with such adorable pop culture icons as Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Markus "Notch" Persson? Only at Disneyland Paris during MineCon 2012. Mojang will hold the annual Minecraft convention at the theme park November 24 and 25, a definite step up from last year's Las Vegas location, though it does complicate travel plans for those of us not in the same continent as ...read more
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Diablo 3 looted by 'more than 10 million' people
Diablo 3's world of Sanctuary is filled with "more than 10 million" players as of the end of July, according to Activision. The publisher announced as much this afternoon in a quarterly earnings statement, dubbing it the "best-selling PC game for the first six months of 2012." Of note, at least 3.5 million of those copies were sold in the first 24 hours alone. Not too shabby! During a followup ...read more
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