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Lawsuit Says Sony Laid Off Security Workers Before PSN Cyberattack
A new lawsuit alleges that Sony fired workers in its network security operations two weeks before a cyberattack brought down the PlayStation Network. Additionally, the suit charges that Sony paid millions to secure sensitive information online—its own corporate secrets. Customer data didn’t receive the same level of treatment, says the suit, brought by PSN customers,…
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YouTube Bans Indie Dev’s Trailer Account as “Scams, Spam and Commercially Deceptive”
Whomever at YouTube banned Crosse Studios’ account might want to reconsider that action. Inexplicably, the entire collection of trailers for the independent sports video game developer was taken out of commission yesterday, on the grounds that the videos violate YouTube’s policy against “scams, spam and commercially deceptive content.” Well, NLL 11 (above) is an actual…
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Xbox Live Chief: “We Don’t Want to Appear to Even be Looking to be Taking Advantage” of PSN Outage
In the throes of the 23-day PlayStation Network Outage, when people were vowing they’d sell their PS3s and go join Xbox Live, Microsoft’s most provocative comment was a low-key prediction that it would see more traffic on its service. Yesterday, though, Xbox’s senior executive finally said what’s bad for the goose is bad for the…
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UncategorizedE3’s Booth Babes Fail a Simple Trivia Quiz With Flying Colors
About a year ago, PAX sought to ban booth babes (pardon me, “costumed booth representatives,”) using a number of tests to determine booth babe-iness (as opposed to garden-variety sexy cosplay). One of them was a lack of familiarity with the product represented. At E3, Bitmob’s 5HP put that standard to the test with a five-question…
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UncategorizedVideo Game Ships Used to Train Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy is teaming up with Invenio Engineering Solutions on a huge undertaking, to train sailors almost exclusively with video games of a sort. While using video game technology to train is not a new concept, Invenio and the RAN are using their software to go more in-depth and interactive than previous software…
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Before They were Famous: Video Game Characters
Video Game Characters weren’t always doing…whatever it is they do. They had to earn their rankings, work for minimum wage, and rise to their current super stardom. So what was it they were doing before? Readers at Cracked.com have answered this question with never-before-seen (totally not photoshopped) pictures of your favorite characters… before their glory…
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