Today
on Headline RePLAY: Nvidia gets hacked, EA is invested with always-online games
and Tecmo Koei gets their own games confused.
No
one is safe from the hackers, not even graphics card manufacturer Nvidia. Nvidia
recently revealed that hackers have swiped up to 400,000 usernames, email addresses,
“hashed passwords with random salt value” and publicly accessible “About Me’
profile information from their forums.
Nvidia
assures users that the company didn’t store any passwords in “clear text” and
that they are working to restore the forums soon as possible while employing
additional security measures to “minimize the impact of future attacks.”
The
graphics card manufacturer strongly recommends that users change any identical
passwords that they might be using elsewhere.
|Source:
Nvidia
EA
is “investing quite a bit” into always-online games, says Maxis’ Lucy Bradshaw,
emphasizing the need to provide “really great service” to make the model work.
“I
think that’s why we have to be really, really good about the service that we
provide,” the senior vice president told Videogamer.com. “Electronic Arts is
investing quite a bit in making sure we’re locked and loaded. If you’ve seen
some of our recent launches they’ve been really quite flawless. Battlefield had huge amounts of players
and stayed extremely stable, and think SWTOR
was one of the most absolutely stable MMO launches.”
Bradshaw
also addressed the concern about internet drops with always-online play. “We
have a nice, graceful way of dealing with those kind of things so that you’re not
going to lose stuff. That’s the beauty of being asynchronous, is that we are
able to be very graceful about how that online connection works and stuff. I
think we’re going to be in a really great place.”
|Source:
Videogamer.com
In
what can only be defined as a major "Oops!” moment for Tecmo Koei, buyers
of the PSP’s Sangokushi VIII found
themselves with the copy of the wrong game on the UMD—specifically, Sangokushi VII.
Tecmo
Koei is aware of the issue and posted a notice on the Game City portal site,
stopped all sales of the game and is in the process of organizing a replacement
program for current owners.
|Source:
Andriasang
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