SEGA website gets hacked, personal information taken

Another day, another hack. The latest victim? the official SEGA website. SEGA just confirmed that 1.3M customers' details have been obtained during the attack, including names, email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords. Thankfully, SEGA doesn't store financial information in their site. This marks the 6th gaming company site hacked in just 3 months.

SEGA talked about this incident saying: “We express our sincerest apologies to our customers for the inconvenience and concern caused by this matter. Sega Pass is the service used to provide information about our new products to registered members and does not hold any customer financial information.

“After the unauthorized entry was identified, we immediately stopped the SEGA Pass service and took emergency action to prevent further damage. This action included immediately contacting all our registered SEGA Pass users. We are now fully investigating the cause of the incident.”

The company will “strengthen network security as a priority issue” as a result of the hack.

It's starting to become a trend and it's leaving a lot of gamer's frustrated. Other gaming sites that have not been attacked better improve their security as a precaution because even gaming site's with no financial records are not safe.

This all started with Sony taking down PSN and later announcing the external intrusion in their systems leaving millions of account information and financial information compromised. Here's a list of game sites that have been affected by hackers since Sony's hack:

•  April 23 - Sony external intrusion.
• May 13 - Deus Ex website hacked.
• May 27 - Codemasters first attack.
• June 10 - Codemasters confirms second attack.
• June 11 - Epic Games confirms external intrusion.
• June 13 - Bethesda confirms external intrusion.
• June 14 - EVE, League of Legends, Minecraft and The Escapist all brought down by DDOS attacks.
• June 17 - SEGA website hacked.

These attacks have been done by different hacking groups. Some deny the involvement, some admit it with pride. From the look of things, this won't stop anytime soon. With Sony getting compromised, hackers are joining the bandwagon and picking their own targets to hack.

E3 2011: Assassin's Creed Revelations

"I have lived my life to the best of my ability. But I have not been able to escape fate, anger, or pain. Bring me the answers and the road that leads to the truth. Reveal to me once and for all, how all of this will end." - Ezio Auditore da Firenze

300 years after the time of Altair, the Mentor of the Assassin Order Ezio goes on a pilgrimage to the abandoned Assassin Fortress in Masyaf which is overrun by the Templars.

Assassin's Creed Revelations is due out on 15th of November 2011 for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

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First look at Battlefield 3 on console

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is tapping the gaming community yet again by showing us an exclusive demo of Battlefield 3 running on the PS3. This is the first time they showed Battlefield 3 running on a console and the difference is very minimal. The gameplay shown is nothing new, it's actually the start of the fault line trailer shown back when it was officially announced.

PS3 debut

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PC faultline gameplay trailer

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I looked back at the PC version to do some comparisons, and The difference is very small. Shadows in the PC version seems to be more realistic while the PS3 version looked too sharp. The building where the first RPG was fired was also changed in the PS3 version. The changes might be from a new build of the game, we don't know. But from what I'm seeing, the game will look amazing  in each platform.

Jimmy Fallon bringing games to his show are awesome and all, but it's obvious he doesn't know a thing or two on how to play. I still remember that silly performance from Fallon when they revealed Uncharted 3's gameplay in his show. He even said he loved the second but from how he played, he obviously never touched Uncharted 2 or even 1 i bet. If he was an actual gamer it would have been cool but hey, at least the games are getting some air time.

Battlefield will be out on October 25, 2011 on PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

New trailer for L.A Noire's latest DLC

Just when i thought I was done with L.A Noire, Rockstar throws a trailer for their new downloadable content coming on June 21. This is the Nicholson Electroplating Arson Case. It seems to be an exciting case since Cole Phelps investigates an explosion that affected 6 city blocks and killed 17 people. 

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If any of you are thinking of getting this DLC, you better get yourself a Rockstar pass before the price goes up. Rockstar is giving us this Rockstar Online Pass which gives us access to all upcoming and past Downloadable content. The Rockstar pass includes:

• Chicago Lightning Detective Suit (Social Club only) - May 17
• L.A. Noire Rockstar Pass (limited-time discount price) - May 31 - $10
• "The Naked City" DLC case - May 31 - $4
• "A Slip of The Tongue" DLC case - May 31 - $4
• Broderick Detective Suit and Gun - May 31 - $1
• Sharpshooter Detective Suit and Gun - May 31 - $2
• The Badge Pursuit Challenge - May 31 -$2
• Chicago Piano Machine Gun (free community unlock) - May 31
• L.A. Noire Rockstar Pass (standard price) - June 14 - $12
• "Nicholson Electroplating Disaster" DLC case - June 21 - $4
• "Reefer Madness" DLC case - July 12 - $4

Interested? well grab a Rockstar Pass now. They currently have a discount price of the pass but it will only last until this week i believe. This pass gives you three new cases for your game, if you don't have the free Naked City DLC case that came with the game make that four. With that discount happening this week, that's only$10 for four new cases and a few extra item DLC's. After the discount, the online pass will cost two extra dollars making it $12.

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Sony will 'consider' support for UMD games on the PS Vita

With the PSP's massive library of games and with it's successor, the PS Vita, coming out in the holiday of 2011. People are wondering if the Vita will be able to play older PSP games.

From Destructoid:

I've talked before about how I hope all my lovely UMD-based PSP games will somehow work on the PlayStation Vita. Sony has not said much about how they would offer up support since the product announcement, but a new blurb in a PlayStation Vita FAQ gives me hope.

Q: I have UMD games but do I need to buy them again from PlayStation Store to play the same game on PS Vita?

A: We will consider every possibility for support on bought UMD games but we have nothing to comment at this point in time.

That's far from confirmation, but it does at least sound positive. The FAQ also states that they have no plans to bring any kind of UMD reader out for the device. Sony says that they'll continue the push to get UMD games released on their new game medium. Stay tuned and keep your fingers crossed.

Peronsally, I think Sony is evil enough to not support UMD games on the Vita and just ask us to re-buy the games in digital form just because they can. But I do hope that they atleast provide some form of software to be able to transfer your PSP UMD games over to the Vita. If the PSPGo had such software, it woulda sold like hotcakes in my opinion.