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GAME hacked as passwords were stored in plain text

January 16, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Update: GAME denies hacking. More hacking worries for gamers. This time Softpedia is reporting that struggling but defiant British retailer GAME has been hacked. The initial reports suggest that usernames, email addresses and password info have been exposed after hackers made use of a shell injection technique. It’s not clear whether credit card details have […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Final Fantasy XIII-2, game, hacking

Assassin’s Creed Revelations Special Edition will be GAME exclusive

June 14, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here in the UK, high street retailer and owner of funky domain name GAME have won the contest to woo Ubisoft. In addition to French kisses this means that the company will be the only bricks store that will be able to sell the Special Edition version of Assassin’s Creed Relevations. What’s in the pack? […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: assassin's creed, game, PlayStation 3, Ubisoft, Xbox 360

GAME promotes social media gaming at the BAFTAs

October 26, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I don’t mind admitting that my current social gaming fad is the Facebook game Endless Chaos. Given that half of Facebook’s 500m users actually play social games I suspect I’m not the only one to sink some minutes into a social game. It makes sense that the BAFTAs – that’s the British Academy Video Game […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: facebook, game

GAME BAFTA award winners 2010

March 19, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This year’s GAME BAFTA award winners have been announced. As you’d expect, headline sponsors GAME have deals on to support it but also notice Play with their deals. Looks like Left 4 Dead 2 hasn’t done as well as fans would have expected. The BBC has already run a news reel talking about the British […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: awards, game

GAME British Academy Video Games Awards announced

February 16, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

We’ve got the nominations for this year’s GAME British Academy Video Awards. When I saw “British Academy” I do actually mean the BAFTAs. They’ve been giving out awards to video games since 2005 – I guess the name “video game” kinda proves they’ve been doing it for a while. Last year Super Mario Galaxy and […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: assassin's creed, game

Game gets Dragon Age exclusive

October 13, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

UK Game retail giant, Game, has scored a major exclusive. They’ll be the only retailer with access to the collector’s edition of the RPG Dragon Age: Origins. The deal covers the PC edition, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 editions too. The collector’s edition will include extra content – Bergens Honour, Grimoire of the Frozen […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: dragon age, game, playstation, xbox

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