In December, an anonymous forumite confessed to an ingenious gaming crime. In the spacefaring MMO "EVE Online," they claimed, they had found a process by which they could make highly sought-after goods out of thin air -- and with fellow gamers, exploited that process to make the equivalent of $145,000 in real money over four [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
At this point in time, nine months after the game's release on PC and more than a year after its Xbox 360 debut, it's hard to believe that BioWare's sci-fi RPG "Mass Effect" is still being patched -- and harder still to imagine that many players have stuck around long enough to care. But according [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 16, 2009
Today, four months to the day after Black Rock Studios' trick-based racer "Pure" hit North America, the PC version is finally getting its first patch. What does it fix? We're not sure, exactly.
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 13, 2009
"James," a GameCyte reader, bought a copy of "Far Cry 2" PC the very same week it came out -- and has been wrangling with Ubisoft customer support to get that game to work ever since. But though the details of his struggle are interesting, that's not why he forwarded his entire tech support transcript to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 23, 2008
When the NPD released the PC numbers for the first week of December, GTA IV debuted at the 7 spot. Now, the NPD has released the numbers for the second week of December … and GTA is already out of the top 10. I suppose it shouldn’t be too surprising, since the game was a port [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
Update: Maybe, just maybe, GameCyte might have found a fix for The Jackal's Curse. Original Story: In the field of QA testing, they call it a showstopper -- a bug so bad that it makes the entire game unplayable. But on the official Far Cry 2 forums, a group of eighty users -- some of whom have [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 12, 2008
Update, 3PM PST: C-931 has reared its ugly head in the GameCyte offices. Yesterday, PlayStation Home launched its Open Beta on PSN to applause -- but that applause was quickly drowned out by the cries of thousands of users. Some complain that it's not a game. Others are bored by the lack of things to do. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
Massively has one hell of a massive story today. According to the confession of an anonymous forumite (via Winterblink), an exploit in persistent spacefaring MMO EVE Online has allowed an undisclosed number of players to harvest the real-world equivalent of approximately $150,000 over a four-year period -- and official statements by developer CCP today indicate [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Buy a shiny new Xbox 360 this Black Friday? Hoping to hook it up to a older display using an HDMI cable? Well, don't be surprised if when you turn it on, all you hear is the system's noisy fan. Last month, the gadget community got word (via AVForums) that those running monitors like the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 1, 2008
Remember Castle Crashers? Yeah, I had one of those “Oh yeah! That game!” moments, too. Months ago, its developers spoke with several people about the buggy, game-breaking glitches present in the retail release, such as game save losses and connectivity issues. Their response? A much-needed patch was nearly done, and just had to pass Microsoft [...]
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