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Originally Posted by wraggster

The group behind the hack on SWGalaxies.net is ObSec, which according to VentureBeat is a small collective with sympathies for LulzSec and AntiSec. Some 21,000 email addresses and 23,000 passwords were taken in the attack and subsequently posted online.

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/star-wa...an-site-hacked

Originally Posted by wraggster

Siliconera reports that D3 Publisher is at work on Onechanbara Z: Kagura, set for a Japanese Xbox 360 release before the end of the year. The new game ditches series protagonist Aya in favour of vampire sisters Kagura and Saaya.

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/new-xbo...nbara-revealed

Originally Posted by wraggster

Soon-to-be-euthanased MMO Star Wars Galaxies isn't going down quietly, judging by Sony Online's plans for its final weeks.
According to the official site, the game's ongoing Galactic Civil War will start to escalate from the beginning of September as both the Empire and Rebel factions seek a decisive victory.
Both sides will be totting up points for the next three months, with the finally tally being announced shortly before the game's 15th December closedown.
"The side with

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Originally Posted by wraggster

WWE All Stars, THQ's arcade-style wrestling game, is leaping from the top rope onto another platform: the 3DS. There, the exaggerated wrestlers will get to be exaggerated into a third dimension.

The 3DS game will come pre-packed with the 13 rasslers offered as DLC for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, and two exclusive gameplay modes, Gauntlet and Score Scramble. Gauntlet is a survival mode in which players

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teased fans at PAX in Seattle this weekend that the developer will start talking about the next Duke Nukem game "soon".

Speaking at the Gearbox community panel, Pitchford said the studio is still determined to make "our own Duke game".

"I know that you guys figured out that, when Gearbox acquired the franchise, we didn't do it just to make sure we could all play Duke Forever, but because we wanted to make our own Duke

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