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Speculation About PSN Outage Turns to Custom Firmware

Word on the street is that the PlayStation Network outage may have been caused by a custom PS3 firmware that allows unlimited game ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 26, 2011

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Court Clears Way for “Wasted Costs” Claim Against Copyright Law Firm

A judge in the U.K. has cleared the way for defendants to pursue legal firm ACS:Law and its owner Andrew Crossley for “wasted ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 25, 2011

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Massachusetts Town Ponders End to Public Videogame Ban

Voters in the town of Marshfield, Massachusetts, will soon decide whether to cut loose a 30-year-old ban on videogames in public places. Back ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 25, 2011

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Sony Still Unsure About Credit Card Leak on PSN

Sony still doesn’t know whether any credit card numbers or other personal information were stolen in the recent attack on the PlayStation Network, ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 25, 2011

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Harmonix CEO Comes Across for Disabled Gamers

Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos has donated $10,000 to the AbleGamers Foundation, a charity dedicated to bringing mainstream gaming to disabled gamers. The nonprofit ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 25, 2011

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Frozenbyte Tosses In Some Humble Bundle Bonuses

Frozenbyte has tossed some “milestone bonuses” into the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle, offering gamers who pick up the pack even more coolness for their ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 22, 2011

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Eyes Turn to China As Internet Woes Continue

Amazon Web Services continues to struggle with technical issues that have left several prominent websites inaccessible and may have some connection to “cyber-attacks” ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 22, 2011

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The Lights Go Down in JoWood

The final curtain appears to have fallen on Austrian publisher JoWood as efforts to restructure its massive debt load have fallen through. I ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 22, 2011

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Windows XP Countdown Timer Won’t Work WIth Windows XP

Microsoft’s new “Windows XP End of Support” countdown timer suffers from just one tiny little flaw: It doesn’t work with Windows XP. Support ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 21, 2011

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Fable 3 Coming to Steam

In a stunning acknowledgment of “who’s your daddy,” Microsoft has announced that the PC edition of Fable 3 will be released on Steam ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 21, 2011

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New Daggerdale Trailer Goes Up the Tower That’s Down the Mine

A new Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale trailer sets the stage for yet another attack on the Dalelands by an overblown, ridiculously-attired evil wizard ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 21, 2011

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Duke Nukem Forever Took Over 6000 Man-Months to Finish

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford estimates that it took more than one million man hours to finally finish Duke Nukem Forever. Duke Nukem Forever ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorApril 21, 2011

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