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Originally Posted by wraggster

It looks like hackers already have their sights set on NCSoft's new MMO, Guild Wars 2.
An increasing number of players are reporting receiving email notifications for a password change request made on their account that wasn't done by them.Possibly the targets of hacking or phishing attempts, some have taken to Twitter to tell the developer directly that they're receiving these emails daily.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Nintendo offered a tour of Animal Crossing during its recent Japanese Nintendo Direct broadcast, and here it is.
Despite the fact you'll likely have no idea what Nintendo boss man Satoru Iwata is saying during the footage, those looking forward to Animal Crossing on 3DS will get a great tour of a town, with a glimpse of the insane amount of customisation that's possible.Animal Crossing for 3DS

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The Creative Assembly today announced that its iOS game Total War Battles: Shogun is available for PC and Mac in revised form via Steam.
"It's a really good fit on PC," senior artist Nick Farley tells us. "We were initially sceptical, but the thing about Unity, and the actual game design, meant that it actually worked incredibly well. We widened the aspect ratio, started playing and thought, 'Hang on this is actually really good!'"

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Additional player support was a failure and a waste of money, says lead designer Cory Davis

2K Games forced Yager into tacking on a “low quality” multiplayer to Spec Ops: The Line, the leader designer on the project has claimed.
Speaking to Polygon, Cory Davis said the publisher was determined to implement a multiplayer into the game, despite little interest from Yager to do so.

He went on to suggest that the “tacked on” multiplayer was a detriment to the

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The latest content patch for Blizzard's massively-popular MMO has landed on live servers ahead of the game's upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion, which is set for release on September 25th.
As with previous expansions, the patch introduces a whole host of new features into the World of Warcraft franchise, whilst changing and removing others.
Most notably, all of the game's ten playable classes have received a slew of changes, some more extensively than others.
The game's talent

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