Today
on Headline RePLAY: Valve’s update on the Steam being hacked, Blizzard duels
with Valve over DOTA and Mass Effect:
Infiltrator gameplay details.
Back
in November, Valve reported that Steam’s forums and database were hacked.
Fast-forward to today, and Valve is still
investigating the breach.
“Recently
we learned that it is probable that the intruders obtained a copy of a backup
file with information about Steam transactions between 2004 and 2008. This
backup file contained user names, e-mail addresses, encrypted credit card
information. It did not include Steam passwords,” wrote Gabe Newell.
“We
do not have any evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or billing
addresses have been compromised.”
The
statement ends with some advice to watch your credit card activity and to keep
Steam Guard on.
*Source:
Destructoid
Blizzard
is suing Valve over DOTA. It’s not the game that Blizzard objects to, League of Legends is DOTA in all but
name; it’s Valve attempting to trademark the term.
DOTA
a.k.a. Defense of the Ancients, began as a Warcraft
III mod made by IceFrog. Valve recruited IceFrog to make a sequel, but when
it was announced to be DOTA 2, Blizzard
objected:
“By attempting to register the mark DOTA, Valve seeks to appropriate
the more than seven years of goodwill that Blizzard has developed in the mark
DOTA and in its Warcraft III computer game and take for itself a name that has
come to signify the product of years of time and energy expended by Blizzard
and by fans of Warcraft III.
“Valve has no right to the registration it seeks. If such registration
is issued, it not only will damage Blizzard, but also the legions of Blizzard fans
that have worked for years with Blizzard and its products, including by causing
consumers to falsely believe that Valve's products are affiliated, sponsored or
endorsed by Blizzard and are related or connected to Warcraft III.”
*Source:
@DevinConnors via Destructoid
Mass Effect: Infiltrator is like Mass Effect and it isn’t. The mobile title is not about the heroics
of Commander Shepard, but rather the efforts of a Cerberus solider named
Randall Enzo. It’s not the full-scale RPG of the consoles, but rather a slice
of its third-person, cover-based combat with some of the RPG elements left in.
Enzo is a Cerberus
soldier that hunts down and captures alien species for study, but when his
loyalty begins to waver, he conspires to send intelligence to Commander Shepard.
Like the title’s
namesake, Enzo is based on the Infiltrator-class and can sneak in for a kill
while employing cover in firefights. His stealth abilities are complemented with
a variety of new weapons like anti-gravity grenades and beam weaponry.
While iconic Paragon/Renegade
decisions are in the game and will make an impact on Mass Effect 3, it was stressed that Infiltrator wasn’t needed to obtain the best possible ending.
In order to benefit
from the assets obtained in Infiltrator
to your Mass Effect 3 game, an EA
Origin account is required.
No release date was
announced, but EA reps have said the game will be launched around Mass Effect 3’s release date.
*Source: Kotaku
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