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Following the furore over CCP's introduction of a shop into EVE Online, the company has gone one step further to winning back the hearts (and wallets) of its fans. Players whose EVE accounts lapsed around the time of the incident have been offered, by email, a reduced subscription offer of $4.95 for 30 days. The news follows CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson's letter of apology to the EVE community last week. More >
Hilmar Pétersson issues heartfelt apology to Eve Online players and focuses on "restoring trust and moving forward."
DICE, Swedish developer of Battlefield 3, has told PC gamers they face Origin account bans should they play the game on unofficial servers - resulting in any other EA games linked to their profile being rendered unplayable. Battlefield 3's server files were leaked last week, allowing users to create their own unofficial game servers with different properties to those in the beta. One, for example, increases the maximum player count on Operation Métro, the beta's sole multiplayer map, from 32 to over 100. More >
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1In a post on the Eve Insider Dev Blog, senior producer Arnar Hrafn Gylfason cuts a contrite figure as he assures disgruntled Eve Online players that CCP has listened to their concerns about the direction the game has taken in recent months, and will reveal its response in the weeks to come. More >
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Player-elected council chairman slams developer's "folly and neglect" following controversial Incarna update.
5Christofer Sundberg says developers and publishers need to stop complaining about piracy and punishing legitimate consumers.
4Nokia temporarily closed its developer network after it was hacked and user information compromised. The company said members' personal information including dates of birth, email and Skype addresses may have been stolen, but that no credit card details were taken. "A database table containing developer forum members' email addresses has been accessed, by exploiting a vulnerability in the bulletin board software that allowed an SQL Injection attack," the company said. "Initially we believed that only a small number of these forum member records had been accessed, but further investigation has identified that the number is significantly larger.”
The publisher has pulled a series of volte-faces regarding From Dust's PC DRM, with conflicting statements and forum posts promising the DRM would be removed or toned down. If the latest one is to be believed, however, the controversial always-on DRM is to be removed. "We recognise that one of our posts in the From Dust forum regarding the need for authentication in the game was not clear," it reads. "We sincerely apologise for the misunderstanding. Our tech teams are working on a patch that should release in approximately two weeks that will eliminate the need for any online authentication."
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Markus "Notch" Persson has confirmed to our friends at PC Gamer that a Minecraft convention, creatively dubbed Minecon, will take place at the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas on November 18 and 19. The convention coincides with the release of the final version of Minecraft, and Notch said: "I’m really looking forward to getting up on stage and pushing the button to upload the final build. We’ll just go back home and keep working on Minecraft directly after Minecon, but it does represent a huge milestone where the game finally leaves beta, something we’d never been able to do without our fans, so it feels natural to celebrate it with them.”
Company president publishes contrite letter to early adopters, admitting global price cut is a "drastic step."
5Ubisoft has confirmed, in a tweet from the game's official Twitter account, that the PC version of the upcoming Driver San Francisco will require a constant internet connection to play. Ubisoft's PC DRM has been the source of some controversy since its debut in 2010 and in January, the publisher said the inclusion of its DRM in future titles would be decided on a case-by-case basis. In a bizarre attempt to head off a fan backlash, a subsequent tweet reads: "Bear in mind though that the PC version of Driver San Francisco is released simultaneously to consoles."
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Zeboyd Games calls on Microsoft to better promote quality titles on Xbox 360's indie download service.
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