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By Imee, on November 14th, 2011% 
Steam, the online video gaming community managed by game company Valve, verified Thursday that the discussion boards have been compromised and informed customers to keep an eye on their credit card billing statements.
The company’s community forums have been defaced earlier in the week, causing some players receiving e-mails from the hacking Site, according to Kotaku.
Thursday, Gabe Newell, Valve co-founder, made a message on the company’s discussion boards verifying the attack, stating that all of forum passwords is going to be reset and including that this attack “goes beyond the Steam forums.” As there is proof . . . → Read More: Valve Confirmed Steam Hack
By Imee, on October 14th, 2011% 
Nintendo has reported life long product sales of their popular DS handheld have exceeded 50 million within the U.S.
The statement was made along with consumer research company NPD Group’s monthly tally of video gaming product sales. Ever since the portable video gaming product released in 2004, Nintendo has sold 273 million games within the U.S., as outlined by NPD data.
In September, Nintendo sold 145,000 DS products as well as an additional 260,000 of the Nintendo 3DS products. The monthly product sales statistics for the 3-D product were up 10% in comparison to August, when Nintendo . . . → Read More: Nintendo DS Hits 50 Million in U.S. Market Sales
By Imee, on October 11th, 2011% 
According to MSNBC, BioWare has verified co-op multi-player feature for Mass Effect 3. The verification emanates from series executive producer Casey Hudson who announced on Twitter Monday and named the co-op missions “spectacular,”. BioWare’s official Twitter account also has verified the statement.
“There will be a multiplayer component for #ME3,” according to the said. “Full details soon, so wait until then before making your decision. We think you’ll like it!” As outlined by BioWare’s Facebook page, fans can listen up for a special tv show of BioWareTV at 10am on Wednesday, for more information on the coop . . . → Read More: BioWare Mass Effect 3 Confirms Co-op Multiplayer Feature
By Imee, on October 6th, 2011% 
Call-of-Duty fans are showing a great excitement about the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The pre-order of the Microsoft’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on Xbox 360 increased this week at Amazon.com Inc.
In this week, the Xbox 360 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Bundle showed a 21 percent increase of sales and the rank of No. 281 in the Amazon’s Video Game Division.
Available on November 8, the Xbox 360 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Bundle will include an Xbox 360 320GB SKU with a . . . → Read More: Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 3 Bundle Shows Increased Pre-orders
By Imee, on September 21st, 2011% 
Blizzard Entertainment launched the next chapter of Diablo on Tuesday, the Diablo 3 but on closed beta yet. And one of the most powerful foe? The Phisher.
The Phisher is not actually in the game or opponent in the last levels when you play. Instead, the game maker warned gamers that invitations to have a dry run for the new RPG game is being sent through emails. If you received this kind of email, Blizzard recommends you to log in into your battle.net account to check if this is legitimate and not a scam, also . . . → Read More: Diablo 3 Closed Beta’s Most Powerful Foe: Phisher
By Imee, on September 15th, 2011% 
Microsoft is going to bring its popular Xbox Live, its epic online entertainment and gaming service, to the new Windows 8.
Xbox spokesman Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, confirmed that Xbox Live is also included in the development of Windows 8 operating system, which will soon run on personal computers and tablets, according to this blog post on Wednesday – (http://majornelson.com/2011/09/13/xbox-live-and-windows-8/).
Hryb wrote, “We are confirming that we will be bringing Xbox LIVE to the PC with Xbox LIVE on Windows,” he also noted that “Bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows 8 is part of . . . → Read More: Xbox Live on Windows 8
By Imee, on September 12th, 2011% 
As the demand of smartphones and tablets increases, social game providers will steal the show at the Tokyo Game Show this week.
As the sales of conventional games sizzles, mobile social gaming companies like DeNA and its rival Gree are going to benefit which are already successful with the previous generation of phones.
Gree makes its debut at Japan’s yearly game show, they will have the largest booths which will run from September 15-18 this year.
Social gaming market in Japan, involving simple games of course played on mobile phones and . . . → Read More: Social Games Takes Center Stage at the Tokyo Game Show
By Imee, on September 9th, 2011% 
The latest dilemma that Nintendo is undergoing now is the lawsuit claiming that Nintendo’s Wii console is stepping the patents that ThinkOptical (the maker of Wavit Remote) filed.
ThinkOptical, the manufacturer of the electronic pointing wand is suing the company Nintendo for its Wii Remote design, arguing about the Wii remote infringes on the Trademark Office’s rejection of elements in former Nintendo-filed patents.
The maker of the Wavit Remote currently handles the patent with a title “Electronic equipment for handheld vision based absolute pointing system”.
As reported by TechCrunch, and in . . . → Read More: Nintendo Sued by ThinkOptical
By Imee, on September 5th, 2011% 
The Call of Duty fans gathered in Los Angeles this weekend showing their devotion of the game in the first Call of Duty XP, a game convention dedicated to the game’s past, present, and future.
Activision held the convention in the huge airplane hangars of Playa del Rey if Loyola Marymount University and a sniper’s shot of EA’s (Electronic Arts) Los Angeles headquarters. Howard Hughes utilized the hangars to build the concept aircraft but they became conference halls and multiplayer gaming centers for the Call of Duty XP convention 2011.
Activision, the game’s . . . → Read More: Call of Duty XP Convention in Los Angeles
By Imee, on September 2nd, 2011% 
17 years, the time that Germany restricted the sales of Doom – the world’s first popular shooting game. But it now has come to an end.
Bethesda Softworks Spokesman which also owns ID software, the makers of the game DOOM, welcomed the big news but was not able to say when the game will become widely available in Germany market.
What was the reason behind why the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons blacklisted this game? In 1994, government said that the game was likely to harm and was a bad . . . → Read More: Germany OK’s with Game Doom after 17 Years
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