What an interesting night.... PSFANBOY sparked one of the greatest controversies in Playstation HISTORY. Yesterday a hackers that goes by the user name REDSOXFAN95 won a rare auction item, which slighted millions of genuine gamers. In an at...tempt to show good sportsmanship and say to this individual 'Good Job', we uncovered that this user has been banned from several trophy leadereboards, and other trophy sites for cheating/ hacking. We also discovered that he was investigated for stealing and illegally using the profiles of other, to solicit 'free' gaming. This was all unearth after googling for a few minutes. The only problem is that SONY declared him an official winner.... which didnt sit well with us. We contacted Sony via PS.com, and on their facebook page and got ignored, while they promoted the next item for auction. We persisted and created a blog posting on PS.com which sparked over sixty powerful comments within a short period of time. This posting also started to attract the attention of larger gaming companies who also started posting aggressively on their respective sites. I recieved a PM from a moderator on the site, thanking me for posting, and apologizing for not hearing me the first time, then assuring me that they are now aware and investigating it. To add insult to injury, this attracted to the one man in the world who is most affected by hackers, the man who own the #1 sport for the most trophies. He has over 2000+ gold trophies. The lagendary 'HAKOOM'. He made several posts that echos the fact that Sony has ignored his plea for the last three years about hackers. He even ofered suggestions and his own IT experience to ade the problem but got ignored numerous times on PS forums and on the phone. His last statements, echoed frustration and relief that this matter is finally being heard. I hate to say it but, XBOX hackers hide in the shadows shamefully, Playstation hackers gets prizes....

:arrow: Atari - Death of an Icon

In January 2013, Atari filed bankruptcy as have many software and development companies this year. However, unlike the others, ATARI strikes a sweet spot in the childhood of many of us who were born in the 80's and 70's. With its unique control stick and signature "red button", it graced many of our childhood memories with joy and feelings of nostalgia.

Let us reflect on some of the fun memories growing up that made ATARI like no other.

I remember fun memories of fighting my older sister for the TV every Saturday morning, and hearing my mom scream from the kitchen saying ' let your little brother play for a while!' At the time we would play countless hours of centipede, space invaders, kangaroo boxing, and the notorious original movie game.... ET. Somehow movie based games has never recovered from ET :)

Ofcourse, the ATARI at times, was very fickle. Console repairs were very expensive at the time, and my parents werent well off at the time. When it started giving problems, we spent countless hours propping, placing, blowing cartridges and tapping; until you figured out the perfect angle and force to enter tthe cartridge and get it to play in your first try.

This was a pure time in gaming, when endings didnt matter... where different levels didnt matter.... when sound quality and graphics were not a buying point. Even trophies and achievements, didnt exist or mattered. You bought and played a game without previews, huge ad campaigns and reviews. You bought a game simply by a friends recommendation or 64bit graphic on the front. Story lines all required a few lines that explains what was going on.... and button configurations were all the same. - Press the red button. The only true reward was the two words that meant all in the gaming universe, HIGH SCORE

Those were simpler times, however, and the company that pioneered the gaming experience and gave NINTENDO the baton to take it to the next level is fading away. ATARI reportedly send out 180 request for bids and recieved only 15 responses. All of which were too low to be taken seriously. Stakeholders and debtors decided to sell the franchise and intellectual property seperately. These IP's includes TEST DRIVE and ROLLER COASTER TYCOON which are the best on the very low-level list.

Atari's apparent departure, reminds me of a World War II hero that recieved the purple star, opened a successful million dollar business, retired and lost everything during the economic turn. Now our beloved, International hero and icon is homeless, hungry and dying.

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:arrow: Here are the New features of Xbox One.

Just a quick set of pointers revealed so far for the New Xbox One. Feel free to update your score card.

PROS

• It will have game resuming features which will allow you to pause a game, watch a movie, play another game, and then auto resume at exactly the same point using cloud.
• Xbox Live friends lists now allow up to 1000 friends
• Xbox Kinect could now be used with PCs
• Xbox achievements are no longer limited to each game. This allows developers to award ...achievements for playing every game in the series
• Xbox Kinect can now detect changes in emotions and heart rates. This opens a hold new world of gameplay potentials
• No always on connection

Cons

• No backward capability, owing to different core architecture blah blah blah
• No always on connection but user monitored mandatory installations are required. This means that when lending a friend a game that you already installed; your friend may be required to pay an installation fee. Microsoft is tight lipped on how this will impact used games. Microsoft has sworn that this will not impact useed game trading
• Stay tuned as more information becomes available
• No DVR capability and TV features still require regular CABLE TV subscriptions (so why not just watch TV with your cablebox and save the additional power???)

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