Developers of N+ complaining about Xbox Live arcade being taken over by the ‘big boys’ and as a results the majority of arcade titles are , shall we say ’sub-par’.
- Wow strong words. While I disagree that the majority of arcade titles are poor (Geo Wars , come on!) there does seem to be a large number big publishers releasing most of the games. The ‘freedom’ for bedroom programmers to release titles has gone a bit wary.
In related new Microsoft is apparently going to to be reducing the amount of “faithful arcade ports” on Xbox live arcade.
- I found this weird, simply because of how well they are doing. Then again maybe Microsoft are stepping in to ensure a solution to what I have just stated above.
Comcast are backing down on their traffic ‘meddling’ with Bit-torrent users after an investigation by the FCC.
- The problem I find with restricting file sharing applications is people still use these as places to share legitimate and legal downloads. So by law you cannot discriminate against the whole service. I will be interested to see if ISP action on this escalates.
This years PWN 2 OWN contest where hackers were allowed to choose one of the 3 major OS’s to hack resulted in the winner hacking MAC OS X after an exploit in Safari.
- I must admit after Apple pushing Safari in their update software to Windows customers last week this made me laugh, although from what I understand the vulnerability would not be present in the Windows version. What’s also interesting is the winner claimed he choose OSX because he knew it would be easiest, i wonder if this exploit was just a one off.
PS3 Security Vulnerability allowing Hackers to access other peoples account
- With consoles becoming more and more like desktop PC’s with Internet access etc this is going to become more and more likely. Hopefully the Microsoft’s and Sony’s can find a way to keep their console’s security tight without restricting users 
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Ubisoft purchasing the rights to the “Tom Clancy” brand
- A lot more Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six heading our way it looks: else why buy the brand out? Speaking of Rainbow six the reviews have been pretty steady and it is supposedly like the first with a ‘run’ button. Sounds like I should pick it up..
