The SEGA Genesis gets hacked!

SEGA recently got hacked and word of it has reached CBS news reports. The picture is pretty self explanatory. And what makes this extra funny is that the picture doesn't even show a SEGA Genesis. It shows a SEGA CDX with two Genesis cartridges randomly placed on the side.

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Two Best Friends Play: Duke Nukem Forever

Matt and Pat get together again this week to play the game that took 12 years to make. Yes, the two best friends plays Duke Nukem Forever! Time to kick some ass and chew bubblegum.. and I'm all outta gum.

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Assassin's Creed Revelations Trailer in LEGO

The Lego Version of the full E3 2011 trailer of Assassin's Creed Revelations. Enjoy!

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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.

Weekend, what are you playing?

It's halfway through June already? That's fast. Summer is officially over for us here in the Philippines but there's still a weekend for hours of gaming on end! What are you playing?

Migoy: Technically I'm not home for the weekend so I'll just mention games I've played these past few days. Been spending a lot of time playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (quite a mouth full ei?). The opening of the game is awesome as shit but then the game changes pace drastically. It's definitely not the game I expected it to be but I am enjoying it quite a bit. You can find some clips of my antics at the TooMuchGaming Youtube channel.

Since I'm going to be out for the weekend, I'll be bringing Phats (my PSP1000) for portable gaming fun incase I need a distraction. Gonna be bringing Dissidia 012 Duodecim as I am still playing that game. I'm also bringing Blazblue: Continium Shift 2, the combo system in the game feels very different compared to the firsy Blazblue so this'll be interesting.

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Arlie: I've been playing Duke Nukem Forever since it was released for the PC. I really can't wait to finish it, and honestly I don't think that I will be able to (Yep, it's THAT bad). It is entertaining to some point just because of Duke's humor, but that's just it. In terms of gameplay, story don't expect much also, playing it just to see tits are not even worth it. It may be enjoyable to some people, but it just didn't meet on what I was expecting it to be. When Hong Kong PSN got back online earlier this week, I went back on playing L.A. Noire to redeem my free "The Naked City" Ad Vice Case and Badge Pursuit Challenge DLC off the Asian PlayStation Store. I'm going to get a Rockstar Pass with a friend so I could also get the other DLC cases. I also played Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds a while ago and I already finished Arcade for all the characters and a 100% Gallery for two gold trophies and a couple of online ranked matches (which I lost to almost all of them). What I've been looking forward to play this weekend is Outland and Alice: Madness Returns.

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Quash: Arcade weekend!! it's all about arcade games for me this weekend. Took a break from the common genre's like shooters or RPGs so I went with games like Dead Nation, Super Stardust HD and Outland.

Super Stardust HD can be pretty addicting. Aiming for the highest possible score in the game is just enough to keep you playing again and again. I wish it had a couple more planets but replaying the planets over and over to reach a good score can still makes hours go by. Dead Nation? I mentioned this before that I've already finished the game. All I'm doing now is I'm finishing it in another difficulty for some trophies. I always tell people I'm not much of an achievement junkie, but I still bother with some achievements for some reason. Damn those virtual achievements!

Last but not least we have Outland. Tried the demo and I just had to get this game. I bought this yesterday together with my Rockstar Pass(for L.A Noire DLCs) and it's worth the 10 bucks. It has such a great game design and art style. A solid 2D platform game that gives you the old Castlevania feel. I haven't played a platform game in a long time so getting Outland was perfect. I'm like 3 hours in and the game is getting insane.

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