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Sony Can Detect PsJailBreak Users

By Geoffrey Tim
August 23, 2010
in :  Gaming
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Were you excited by the news of the PSJailbreak? Even if you weren’t planning on using it for piracy, you may have been tempted by the allure of GPU-enabled homebrew, and promised NTFS support. If you’re planning on using the PSN, you may need to rein in your enthusiasm a bit. According to a report by PS3Hax, Sony will be …

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Infinity Ward Introducing PC Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters to the Banhammer.

By Geoffrey Tim
November 30, 2009
in :  Uncategorised
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Robert Bowling, Infinity Ward’s community manager has confirmed that a small percentage of PC Modern Warfare 2 players have been banned for cheating in multiplayer matches, thereby ruining the fun for people who aren’t douchebags. According to his twitter feed they’ve laid the smackdown on around 2500 very naughty people. While 2500 may seem a large number of cheaters for …

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Xbox Live Sets New Concurrent User Record

By Geoffrey Tim
November 13, 2009
in :  Gaming
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Undoubtedly driven by the colossal sales of a certain game involving Warfare of a Modern nature, Xbox Live has now broken its own record for concurrently online users. Major Nelson let the world know (Via Twitter, obviously) that on Thursday the service recorded the highest number of users online at the same time, a figure of over two million, or …

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Pirates send death threats to Stephen Toulouse – Xbox 360 Banmaster

By Gavin Mannion
November 10, 2009
in :  Gaming
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Stephen Toulouse is the man tasked with keeping Xbox Live clean and doing his best to slow down the unstoppable wave that is piracy on the Xbox 360. So you can imagine he is not the most loved person in the Xbox 360 pirating community but this is honestly taking it to far. Apparently someone managed to get his personal …

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ODST Pirates. Meet The Ban Hammer.

By Nick De Bruyne
September 4, 2009
in :  Gaming
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A few tweets started popping up yesterday from folks like Major Nelson and Stephen Toulouse saying that they are already seeing illegal copies of Halo 3 ODST being played online and are ready to drop the hammer on them. Toulouse’s exact tweet goes a little something like this: “Hrm. I spy with my little eye some *illegitimate* ODST players. No …

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Microsoft ramps up its offensive against cheaters, hackers and nudists

By Gavin Mannion
August 3, 2009
in :  Gaming
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The latest Major Nelson podcast has Stephen Toulouse, Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement chief, chatting about the rules and regulations around using Xbox Live as well as letting us know that they are really ramping up the protection level thanks to an increase in phishing and hacking attempts. According to Stephen if you get caught hacking or phishing online now …

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