I was just enjoying some Halo 3 when I noticed Mister Chief taking over Europe.
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Mister Chief Invades 'Halo 3'Posted by Brian Leahy - Monday, March 31, 2008 10:42 PM
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Daily Wrap-Up 3.31.08Posted by Stephen Johnson - Monday, March 31, 2008 6:01 PM
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X-Play Gaming Update 03.31.08Posted by Jonathan Hunt - Monday, March 31, 2008 5:06 PM
Today, Morgan brings you the latest in gaming news, including the Playstation Network, Army of Two, Prototype, and Rock Band.
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'Rock Band': "Still Alive" Available NowPosted by Brian Leahy - Monday, March 31, 2008 4:53 PM
Looks like Still Alive slipped onto the Xbox Live Marketplace a bit early. It's available for download now. The PS3 version will probably still arrive on Thursday. Go forth and download!
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'Call of Duty 4' Multiplayer MapsPosted by Stephen Johnson - Monday, March 31, 2008 3:30 PM
Psssst...Want a look at the Call of Duty 4 Variety Pack multiplayer maps that come out on April 10th? Right below, my man.
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Indie Games: AchillesPosted by Mike D'Alonzo - Monday, March 31, 2008 3:09 PM
The cutest li'l hack n' slash Greek adventure is the indie game Achilles, and you're going to feel like quite the heel if you don't play it. Get it? Heel? Achilles? We slay ourselves, but you'll be slaying soldiers in this indie game.
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'Mr. Driller' Coming To XboxPosted by Stephen Johnson - Monday, March 31, 2008 2:59 PM
Much beloved puzzle game MR. DRILLER is coming to the Xbox Live arcade this Wednesday. In the game, players take on the role of a driller moving through levels of colorful blocks, avoiding the threat of being crushed by falling blocks, all while keeping their air supply from running out. “MR. DRILLER Online” features single player modes including Standard Driller and Quest Driller, as well as online multiplayer support for up to four players. In online multiplayer mode, players can participate in a split screen Solo Battle, where the best score wins, or in Tag Battle, where friends team up in pairs to beat the game. “MR. DRILLER Online” will be available for 800 Microsoft Points.
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'Incredible Hulk' TrailerPosted by Stephen Johnson - Monday, March 31, 2008 2:08 PM
Okay, movie tie-in games almost always blow... but, if we all wish hard, the game for The Incredible Hulk won't. Go ahead. Wish. The game comes out across all platforms on June 3rd. The trailer is below. BTW: If this game isn't good, it's because you didn't wish hard enough, slacker.
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DiCaprio, Scott Braving 'New World'Posted by Mike D'Alonzo - Monday, March 31, 2008 2:02 PM
For those of you who have not read the novel, and we can only imagine that there are very, very few of you who haven't, Brave New World is about a society of people complacent with drugs and entertainment, and one man who lives sort of off the grid that ends up being a lighthouse keeper. Sounds exciting, don't it? It is. You'll have to see it when it comes out. TimesOnline: Brave New World for Hollywood as Aldous Huxley feud ends
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'Guitar Hero: Aerosmith' TrailerPosted by Stephen Johnson - Monday, March 31, 2008 1:57 PM
Attention rockers and/or rollers: Check out the trailer for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. The cross platform game will be available on June 29th!.
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'Endless Ocean:' Build Your Own SoundtrackPosted by Rick Damigella - Monday, March 31, 2008 1:36 PM
One of the most striking things about Wii scuba-diving game Endless Ocean is the music that accompanies it. The lady behind that haunting voice is New Zealander Hayley Westenra. This 20 year-old soprano has a magical set of pipes that fits so well with Endless Ocean you would have thought these songs were written for the game.
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NBC Placating You With Fantasy/ActionPosted by Mike D'Alonzo - Monday, March 31, 2008 1:24 PM
There will also be a show about telepathy, as well as one called Fear Itself, which we can only assume will be some sort of horror anthology series, kind of like Tales From the Crypt. Sounds like a lot of fun, and a great way to pass the time while the collapse of our socioeconomic system proves to be the end of society as we know it! Variety.com: NBC offers escape with new slate CIA Buys Google HardwarePosted by Brian Leahy - Monday, March 31, 2008 1:21 PM
That's right. Spies are now editing each other's entries on terrorists to help share information. While this seems like a great way to digitally consolidate intelligence, that's got to be just about the biggest hacking target we can think of. Good luck keeping that secure, CIA. TimesOnline: CIA enlists Google's help for spy work
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'Superman' Family Wins Big LawsuitPosted by Mike D'Alonzo - Monday, March 31, 2008 11:57 AM
Also, the copyright might, as a result of this ruling, revert to the family in total after 2013, which means that anyone who wanted to do anything with Superman, such as a Justice League or Superman franchise, would have to negotiate with an entity that feels like it's been ripped off for the better part of the past 30 years. Doesn't seem like an enviable task. Dark Horizons.com: "Superman" Grounded By Lawyers
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'GTA 4' Achievements Leaked?Posted by Stephen Johnson - Monday, March 31, 2008 11:38 AM
The achievements for Grand Theft Auto 4 may have leaked over the weekend. We stress the word "may," these are unverified reports that could turn out to be fakes. Internet, you've tricked us before! But it's under the cut. SPOILERS!!!
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Chocobo's Dungeon Coming To US July 8Posted by Patrick Roche-Sowa - Monday, March 31, 2008 11:26 AM
On July 8th, Square Enix Inc. will release Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon exclusively for the Nintendo Wii. Everyone's favorite yellow chicken takes on trademark job classes from the franchise such as black knight, mage, and scholar to keep the multi-person party feel of the series, unlocking more jobs as players progress through the game. The story will be based around Chocobo being transported to a mysterious town where the local's memories are erased every time the clocktower bell chimes. Sounds like wallstreet. One day a strange boy named Raffaello comes along and builds dungeons of memories to try and help the townspeople remember, so of course you, playing as humanoid poultry, will have to search through the dungeons and find everyone's memories. You can pick up Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon for the Wii on July 8th of this year for $39.99. Oh, and you can get that awesome t-shirt on Jinx.com.
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Web Getting Hacked More and MorePosted by Brian Leahy - Monday, March 31, 2008 11:25 AM
The code is snuck into search results and even spreads to Google's cached search results page. Immediate concerns seem to be the pushing of malicious programs to the user under the guise of anti-spyware programs and virus scanners. However, this could be the starting point of a much larger attack. Researchers are urging companies and website owners to check their results better and more frequently to root out the bad code. As always, be careful on the internet. It's a dangerous place. InfoWorld: Major Web sites hit with growing Web attack
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Ubisoft Making More Than ExpectedPosted by Stephen Johnson - Monday, March 31, 2008 11:24 AM
Big investment banks may be spiraling into a nightmare of bankruptcy and disgrace, but not Ubisoft. The French game-maker is doing great! And to prove it, Ubisoft is revising its profit expectations upwards. Ubisoft now expects full-year 2007-08 sales of around 920 million Euros compared to a previous guidance of approximately 875 million Euros, announced on January 23, 2008. Ubisoft credits their success to better-than-expected sales for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Assassin's Creed, and the Games For Everyone brand.
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Hacking Facebook in Under a MinutePosted by Brian Leahy - Monday, March 31, 2008 11:10 AM
A hacker demonstrates how to change someone's mood in the Moods application on Facebook. Watch the video and marvel at the genius of something totally useless. At the end of the day, this is a vulnerability in the application and not the app. Facebook might have to start cracking down on unsecure apps soon. Who knows what hackers will be able to change your mood to?! AlleyInsider: How To Hack Facebook In 51 Seconds
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Hackers Causing EpilepsyPosted by Stephen Johnson - Monday, March 31, 2008 11:02 AM
A group of hackers descended on a support message board for epileptics last weekend and posted animations designed to trigger epileptic seizures. "We are seeing people affected," says Ken Lowenberg, senior director of web and print publishing at the Epilepsy Foundation. "It's fortunately only a handful. It's possible that people are just not reporting yet -- people affected by it may not be coming back to the forum so fast." One person the attack did affect: 33 year-old RyAnne Fultz. She says she clicked on a forum post with a legitimate-sounding title and her browser was taken over by a pattern of squares rapidly flashing in different colors. Fultz says "I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn't move and couldn't speak." Other users reported migraine headaches. This is probably the first hacking attack in the history of the internet to result in real-life harm to victims, and is thought to be the work of Anonymous.
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Capcom Snatches 'Tenchu' DevelopersPosted by Brian Leahy - Monday, March 31, 2008 10:50 AM
Capcom has just purchased K2 Studios, developers of the recent Tenchu games including Tenchu Z for the 360. Capcom made this move to make their "game development activities more efficient and speedy." Hopefully, Capcom's influence will make the Tenchu games better because a next-gen, ninja assassination game done right could be aces. Kotaku: Capcom Buys Tenchu Devs
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PS3 Exploit Found, World Told "Hello"Posted by Brian Leahy - Monday, March 31, 2008 10:29 AM
The PSP is well known for it's hackability and it looks like the PS3 is no different. Established PSP hacker, Dragula96, has found an exploit in the newest PS3 firmware (2.20) and has already created a "Hello World!" proof of concept application. This could open the doors to all sorts of homebrew on the PS3 like emulators and community games. More discussion and a video after the break.
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Around The Net 3.31.08Posted by Eugene Morton - Monday, March 31, 2008 10:08 AM
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Aldous Huxley's dystopic novel Brave New World will finally get its first film treatment, and will star Leonardo DiCaprio, who is well-acquainted with Huxley's family, and Sir Ridley Scott, who will direct. The path to making the film was cleared when Huxley's will, long held up in court, was finally deciphered and all rights and such delineated.
NBC knows that the world is coming to an end, so they're looking to make your demise as delightful as possible, but wheeling out a slate of fantasy and action television to take your mind off of what's going on. Included in that will be a series based on the new Knight Rider, as well as a new version of Robinson Crusoe, which will focus on someone who has shipwrecked on an island. Sound familiar?
The CIA just bought a mess of hardware from Google to help organize and search their spy information. Not only that, the CIA is now running a spy database Wikipedia style on their private servers.
The family of Jerry Siegel, who was the original creator of Superman, have won a lawsuit which helps to revert some of the copyright back to the family, giving them a cut of the profits made from the character for all properties after 1999, including a share of profits, if there are any, from 2006's Superman Returns.
There is a growing menace spreading around the internets. Hackers are inserting malicious code into a reported 1 million websites, many of them high profile targets.
