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by Published on April 29th, 2011 18:52
Just Add Water boss Stewart Gilray has described the hysteria surrounding the PlayStation Network hack as "a lot of wind and p**s"....
The Gravity Crash developer slammed the press reaction to the security breach, which has seen some 77 million PSN accounts compromised.
"I have to say, the press yesterday ripped Sony a new one wider than the Channel Tunnel," Gilray told Eurogamer at the GameCityNights event in Nottingham last night.
"Yes, it's up to 77 million PSN IDs, or 35 million master accounts – the rest are sub accounts. It's bad. But to look at it laterally, you're now one of 35 million people who could get their details leaked out and used by somebody else.
"But when you look at things like Play.com for example, which had 1.4 million details ripped last year, you're one in 1.4 million. There's a much higher chance of your stuff being used from Play than there is of your stuff being used from the PlayStation hack.
"I'm not saying it's good. It's bad. But I don't think half the criticism they've got has been deserved. They have gone about it the right way."
Some developers have expressed concern that the hack, which has hit headlines across the globe this week, will have a damning effect on PSN game sales.
But Gilray, who is currently working on PSN games Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD, said developers have little to worry about.
"To use a phrase my dad used to say, it's a lot of wind and p**s," he said.
"Dylan Cuthbert from Q-Games has said it will affect their business slightly, but their games launched a while ago. With anything digital, your biggest sales come from your first two weeks of publishing. After that it drops through the floor. Yeah, you'll get a steady flow, but it won't be as high as that first week.
"If this happened in the first week of a game coming out, then yeah, sure, fine, you're going to hurt pretty bad, especially when you're reliant on that first payment check after the first month. But after that it drops off pretty much.
"Right now we're not worried about it. I don't think there are many games released recently. I know the Telltale guys are meant to be doing Episode 2 of Back to the Future."
The PSN leak has seen the theft of personal data, including home addresses and passwords, on a massive scale.
Sony says it has found no evidence to suggest credit card data, which it insists was encrypted, has also been stolen, but it can't rule the possibility out.
A security expert this morning claimed that "low-level cyber criminals" are currently shopping around lists containing the credit card details of 2.2 million PSN members.
The claim is at this stage unsubstantiated, and conflicts with Sony's reassurance that credit card security codes were not held by PSN.
True or not, it is the threat of identity theft that has left some analysts predicting Sony could be in for a huge financial hit following the furore – and, potentially, a mass exodus from the service.
Gilray, however, is doubtful that PSN will suffer irrevocable damage.
"I can't see 35 million people unsubscribing from PSN. And games don't sell 35 million copies. They maybe sell between 15,000 and 100,000 copies depending on the size of it in the first six to 12 months. When a game does come out, people will still buy it.
"35 million accounts, or 77 million global accounts, you're not going to get all those not buying any more. You only sell to less than one per cent of the entire user base anyway. Unless, suddenly, 60 million people unsubscribe, which I really can't see, we should be fine.
"Yes, the confidence thing will hit a few people. But now Sony has said credit card information wasn't breached, and the security number wasn't breached at all, the worst that will happen is you'll get a few people who will unsubscribe and sell their consoles. Next you'll get people switching to PSN cards."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...f-wind-and-p-sby Published on April 29th, 2011 18:50- Categories:
- PS3 News
PlayStation 3 gamers' download history, friends lists and settings are unaffected by the PlayStation Network outage, Sony has confirmed....
Trophies are intact and will be re-synched, and PS+ cloud saves will be restored.
PSN has been down since 20th April. Sony said earlier this week it hopes to have some features up and running by 3rd May.
Sony is thinking about "ways to show appreciation" for PS3 gamers' "extraordinary patience".
The hack has seen personal details tied to 77 million PSN accounts stolen. Sony has confirmed information such as email addresses, home addresses, IDs and passwords were not encrypted.
Sony says it has found no evidence that credit card details have also been stolen, and insisted such data was encrypted.
But a security expert has this morning claimed that "low-level cyber criminals" are currently shopping around lists containing the credit card details of 2.2 million PSN members.
Kevin Stevens, an online security expert with TrendMicro, said the details, including credit card security codes, were up for sale on illegal forums.
Stevens' claim is unsubstantiated, and conflicts with Sony's reassurance that credit card security codes were not held by PSN. He also admits to not having seen the database, "so I can not verify that it is true".
Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK), an organisation that co-ordinates fraud prevention in the UK, told Eurogamer that there is no need for gamers to cancel their credit cards "at this stage".
"The banking industry has robust processes in place to protect its customers' accounts by monitoring for suspicious or irregular card transactions," FFA said. "If Sony confirms that card details have been compromised, and provides details to us of those accounts, card issuers can place alerts on these accounts. Further steps, such as blocking the account and/or issuing new cards can be taken if necessary.
"There is no need for customers to contact their bank or card company at this stage. However, customers should continue to do what they should normally be doing - checking their statement and keeping a close eye on their account for any unusual activity – if they spot any they should then contact their bank or card company."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...hies-to-remainby Published on April 29th, 2011 18:47- Categories:
- Xbox 360 News
The Xbox 360 sold a quarterly record of 2.7 million units between 1st January and 31st March this year, Microsoft has announced, up from 1.5 million over the same period last year....
The data came from Microsoft's fiscal Q3 financial report released today, which stated that total Xbox 360 platform revenue grew year-on-year by $712 million (or 69 per cent) to $1.95 billion.
Company-wide, revenue was up 13 per cent to $16.43 billion.
Driving the platform's growth, the Kinect peripheral sold 2.4 million units in the quarter, putting life-to-date sales at around 10.4 million units when taking into account the eight million it sold between its 4th November launch and 31st December 2010.
"Consumers are delighted with Kinect, as well as our entire Xbox 360 platform, for the revolutionary experience it brings to their living room," commented chief financial officer Peter Klein during an investor call. "Kinect continues to lead the way forward in gaming."
With hardware sales clearly on an upswing, Microsoft insisted that it wasn't ready to start discussing the Xbox 360's successor.
"We're really not talking about that," said investor relations boss Bill Koefoed, in response to a question as to when new hardware might be forthcoming.
"Right now we're incredibly excited about what's going on with Xbox 360 and certainly Kinect, which is relatively new to the market, so we're focussed on that."
As reported earlier this week, Nintendo plans to unveil its next home console at E3 this year.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...k-new-hardwareby Published on April 29th, 2011 18:45- Categories:
- Apple iPad
Three employees from Taiwan-based Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) plants in Shenzhen, China, have been charged with leaking the iPad 2's design to outside accessory companies in China, according to a Chinese-language sznews.com report. Several online shopping retailers in China were able to sell iPad 2 protective case products before the iPad 2 was even launched, leading Foxconn to suspect that there might have been some employees leaking the design of iPad 2, which it reported to the local policehttp://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/0...-iPad-2-Design ...by Published on April 29th, 2011 18:43- Categories:
- Pandora News
Newly released/updated for the Pandora:
ELinks is a program for browsing the web in text mode. The goal of the project has from the beginning been to provide a feature-rich text mode browser with an open patches/features inclusion policy and active development. One of these features is that ELinks includes Links-Lua which adds scripting capabilities to ELinks.Features Lots of protocols (local files, finger, http, https, ftp, smb, ipv4, ipv6) Authentication (HTTP authentication, Proxy authentication) Persistent cookies Cute menus and dialogs Tabbed browsing Support for browser scripting (Perl, Lua, Guile) Tables and frames rendering Colors Background (non-blocking) downloads(http://elinks.cz/about.html)LicenseGPLv2. Other licences apply to some files in the source tree, see COPYING.
Download Here ...by Published on April 29th, 2011 18:42- Categories:
- Xbox 360 News
Third quarter results for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division show sales up 60 per cent from $1.21 billion to $1.94 billion.
During the three month period ended March 31, Microsoft sold 2.7 million Xbox 360 units, up from 1.5 million for the same period last year.
The Kinect peripheral sold 2.4 million units, with sales for the entire Xbox 360 platform up 69 per cent to $712 million.
The Entertainment and Devices Division - which also includes Windows Phone and Microsoft Games Studios - recorded operating income of $225 million, up from $150 million last year.
"Consumers are purchasing Office 2010, Xbox and Kinect at tremendous rates, and businesses of all sizes are purchasing Microsoft platforms and applications," commented Peter Klein, chief financial office at Microsoft.
Sales for the entire Microsoft business were $16.43 billion, with profits up 31 per cent for the quarter, to $5.23 billion.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...kinect-success
...by Published on April 29th, 2011 18:41- Categories:
- Dingoo News
Newly released for the Dingoo Homebrew Console comes this news from Dingoonity, heres the release news:
Dingoo a320 is going back to production and has a new LCD - ILI9338!
Quote from: booboo (dingux.com)
Thursday, April 21, 2011Quote from: booboo (dingux.com)
Support added for new LCD type (ILI9338)
A couple of maintenance releases, which basically boild down to the addition of support for a new LCD type, ILI9338. The support was implemented and tested by ChinaChip, I just prepared the dual boot installer and added the new zImage to the old system package.
Check out the google code downloads page here.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
A320 back to production
It could be infered from the fact that support for a new LCD type was implemented, but I just got confirmation from ChinaChip.
...by Published on April 29th, 2011 18:40- Categories:
- PS3 News
The fallout from the PlayStation Network hack has caused a flurry of debate about the reliability of digital distribution.
What’s not yet clear is the extent to which developers will be hurt because of consumer mistrust.
CasualGaming.biz contacted several developers, who rely on digital distribution, to hear their take on the situation.
“We’re rooting for Sony to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. PSN is one of our primary channels for reaching console game fans, and it does feel as though Sony should compensate customers, if not developers, for the outage,” said a PopCap official.
Sony have promised compensation for developers. Some will undoubtedly feel the brunt of the outage more, however.
For instance, Creat Studios have a number of titles available on PlayStation Network, including Cuboid, Mushroom Wars and Digger HD.
“The PSN downtime has certainly reduced our visibility as a company as most of our titles are sold through PSN,” said PR and marketing coordinator Bill Fryer.
“We have been long time partners with Sony and I feel that they understand how an outage like this affects developers like us. We have been in constant contact with Sony through this time and they have been accommodating with the dates of sales and marketing assets so far.
“Most of our titles are being sold through the PSN, so any PSN user base lost will affect our sales. But we are confident that this extended maintenance will provide a secure user interface that will work to restore this loss of confidence.”
Restoring confidence won’t be easy after a mass outage like this, though.
“It just goes to show how fragile the business is at this point in the evolution of digital distribution,” said Mel Kirk, VP of marketing at Zen Studios.
Zen develops and publishes pinball games across PSN and Xbox Live. Kirk said they were due to release Sorcerer’s Lair for Zen Pinball on April 26, but have been delayed as a result of the outage.
“Zen Studios has felt the impact just as hard as any other digital publisher on the platform,” she said.
“The PSN outage really is a bummer for all parties - developers, publishers and gamers alike - and it shows the need for heightened security and preventative measures to keep a system like PSN from being hacked.”
The immediate loss of business is regrettable, though Kirk thinks the situation will be worse for those that published games just before the outage.
“In all honesty, it will probably be a lot tougher on the guys who released games last week, or the week before. You really need the first few weeks’ sales momentum to carry you into the post-launch hype loss, and it might be tough for those guys to get that back unless Sony steps in and provides some support for them. We hope they do! The loss of a week’s worth of sales will be felt by every publisher regardless of how great or small the revenue is.”http://www.casualgaming.biz/news/309...-affected-devs ...by Published on April 29th, 2011 18:38- Categories:
- Dingoo News
Newly released/updated for the Dingoo a320 and Dingoo a330
a basic snake game for dingux, original author : pierreAd
Download Here ...by Published on April 29th, 2011 18:37- Categories:
- Caanoo News
Newly released/updated for the Caanoo
Amstrad CPC Emulator for GPH Caanoo. V.1.1.1 updates: - Add USB keyboard support - Center Help screen and fix border screen issue in several menus (text was pratically unreadable in rom/disk files requester etc ..) - Remove unused overclock cpu speed parameter V. 1.1.2 updates: - USB Joystick support (up to two players if you got a Twin USB joystick adapter, or one joystick + the caanoo pad), let's have fun with Ikari warriors ! - Overclock support and default cpu clock when exiting the emu - global disk / snap files location - Rom file selector bug fix - New title icon from Mospaedax V. 1.1.3 updates : - bug fix when using USB joystick in menu - improve fps accuracy
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