The patience of PlayStation 3 owners is wearing thin as retailers are reporting a 200% increase in PlayStation 3 trade-ins, usually for Xbox 360 consoles, as well as sales slumps for PSN points cards and fewer multiplatform game sales for PS3. “In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change […]
PSN Outage Causes 200% Rise in PS3 Trade-Ins
May 13th, 2011 · No Comments
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Expert: Sony Negligent In PSN Security
May 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment
An expert has given testimony to the US House of Representatives Subcomittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade during its commencement on hearings on the “unauthorized intrusion” on Sony’s PlayStation Network and Qrocity service, stating Sony knew that their security software was dated and lacked any sort of firewall against hacking. Cybersecurity expert Dr. Gene Spafford’s […]
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Gaming Podcast 206: Drowning in Phlegm
January 19th, 2011 · 10 Comments
This week we’re a bit sick, but the gaming podcast goes on regardless! We can’t seem to get away from the current hot topics of the week mostly involving Sony and hacking in the same sentences. This week’s news includes: Sony Sues Geohot and fail0verflow Team Professor Labels Sony’s Suit “Breathtakingly Stupid” UbiSoft’s Walfisz Frets […]
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Gaming Podcast 204: River City Barf
January 5th, 2011 · 4 Comments
This week we’re covering a few stories fresh in 2011 or at least our reactions are fresh! We’re hitting up some community comments, as the usual, and doing a flash back of River City Ransom, last covered in episode 4–don’t go find the old one, listen to the new one (we only had 3 listeners […]
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Gaming Podcast 202: Eggnog Bath
December 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment
This week we’re creating our last gaming podcast before Christmas, no holiday break for us! We’re reading some of our community comments and taking a look back at both Pac-Land and the history of Atari post-2600 release. This weeks news includes: Blizzard’s Next-Gen MMO Codenamed “Titan” EA CEO John Riccitiello Blasts Activision, Treyarch PS3 Price […]
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Gaming Podcast 201: Just A Day Early
December 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments
This episode starts with an MMO focus and ends with community feedback, we’re looking back at an MMO that never made it to life: Ultima X. We give a quick and dirty first-look at Cataclysm, the next World of Warcraft expansion. This episode arrives on day early as Derrick is flying off to Germany early […]
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Gaming Podcast 170: If Hacker’s Could Spell
April 27th, 2010 · 12 Comments
This week’s gaming podcast we’re answering some community feedback, hitting some new DRM issues and tackling some popular news stories including but not limited to: Capcom implementing always connect DRM in PS3 games Ubisoft’s DRM cracked for good? Blizzard appealing the AO Starcraft II rating First PS3 3D games will not have as good graphics […]
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Gaming Podcast 163: Arcade, Beer and Ribs
March 2nd, 2010 · 8 Comments
This weeks gaming podcast is epic, as per the usual, we had some really thought out community comments about DRM, game history on Krull and a bit of history on D. Gottleib & Co. This weeks news includes: First Generation PS3s are failing The Nintendo Wii being picked on again Warcraft Authenticator Hacked StarCraft II […]
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Gaming Podcast 148: Games I Don’t Like Playing
November 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments
This weeks gaming podcast covers a few top news stories that inspire tons of discussion, we tackle some user feedback and comments, answers of the week and flashback to Archon: The Light and the Dark. We’re also going to review Netflix for the PlayStation 3 for those thinking of ordering the disc from Netflix. This […]
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Gaming Podcast 144: Specificity
October 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments
This week we’re delving into the news with focused specificity. Okay, we just wanted to use the word. We’re traveling back to the days of Might and Magic and covering the history of New World Computing. For news, we’re tackling a couple top stories including: Microsoft Locking out unauthorized memory units Next Gen consoles not […]
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