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Hackers access thousands of PSN accounts. Sony locks down compromised accounts.

Sony Chief Information Security Officer Philip Reitinger posted this morning on the Official European Sony Blog that a mass attempt at logging into thousands of PSN and SOE accounts was rebuffed last night. Suspected of culling the list from other companies, the hackers used large amounts of username-password combinations to attempt access to Sony users. 93,000 accounts appeared to be successfully accessed by using these username-password sets. In response Sony locked all of those accounts until their proper owners could confirm authenticity and reset passwords. Of those accounts, "a small fraction" had transactions on them before being locked down. Sony is reviewing all account activity and offering to assist anyone who may have had purchases made in their name.

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Elmos and Hulk Hogans and Bears, Oh, My!

After a dramatic unveiling just before E3 last year and a successful launch, there has been little in the way of Kinect news or releases as of late. While the peripheral has seen the recent release of Child of Eden and Twisted Pixel’s western-themed shooter The Gunstringer, it has been quiet on the horizon for Microsoft’s camera. That all changed this week, as the peripheral sees not one, not two, but six new releases. Read on for information on all of them.

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Stand-alone drive is the largest available to date.

Hot on the heels of the announcements of the media-centric dashboard update and the host of streaming television content on the 360 comes the announcement that a 320 GB hard drive will be released in late October.

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Get a double dose of the delectable Felicia Day.

BioWare and EA have been known for their cross-media promotions with their bigger franchises the past couple of years. Between novels, comic books, Facebook social games, and other venues it is very easy to really dive into the virtual worlds that they create. Today, though, they may well have outdone themselves.

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id emerges from hibernation to a FPS landscape that has changed considerably since they ruled the roost. Do they still have what it takes to dominate?

id defined the first person shooter for an entire generation of gamers.  From Wolfenstein to Doom to Quake, they pumped out standard setting shooters for years before going quiet after the 2004 release of Doom 3.  In the years since, they have worked diligently on an all new IP that slowly morphed into the finished product that we know today as Rage--a game that stays true to the aesthetic and spirit of its predecessors while borrowing a few trappings from more contemporary games.  Does it have what it takes to hold its own in a world dominated by the likes of Call of Duty, Halo, and Battlefield?  You better believe it does.

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