Korean media thisisgame reported that Nexon Japan had purchased 14.7% share at $687 million, from Korean giant NCsoft and become the major holder of the developer of AION and Blade & Soul.
ChangYou (US) has just released a brand new video featuring the weapon overview of its latest MMOFPS Renaissance Heroes. There are four types of weapons in the game: Rifles (mid-range and rapid fire), Crossbows (long-range and feature zoom), Melee (close range and include bombs), and Special weapons (heavy weapons and explosives).
In the mid-June, Tribes: Ascend brought by Hi-Rez Studios will welcome its significant update that will go live this weekend. The June update, titled Accelerate, will dramatically speed up the process by which players unlock weapon upgrades and earn new items.
Funcom today announced that the third Beta Weekend for The Secret World will start on June 15th at 9am PST and lasts until June 17th, 11.59pm PST. In this Beta Weekend you get to play as Dragon, Templars and Illuminati, and sample the starter experience in the Seoul, London and New York hub cities.
Blizzard have updated the Trading Card Game art gallery to feature ten new pieces. Each image is taken directly from the official World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.
Nexon just announced the next class for Dragon Nest, the Tinkerer. Tinkerer is versatile and uses missiles and rockets for good ol' fashioned damage, chemical attacks to cripple enemies, and her robot bodyguard to lay on the hurt!
Hi, I'm Icaras, or Alexander. I'm the leader of Genesis Gaming, a previously dominating force in the free2play MMORPG market, currently transitioning into a community and competitive team in League of Legends, Guild Wars 2 and Starcraft II, a couple of my friends said it'd be good for me and maybe for others to find interesting if I post my week to week happenings, in real life and in the virtual world of what goes on and the fun times I face.
OGPlanet announced today that they have released two new scenario missions, implemented two new S rank units, and updated the Custom Capsule Machine for their popular multiplayer third-person shooter game, SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online.
I have a new "Woes of Randoms" for you all today. As you know, I like to put up little tales of the worst of the randoms I get at any period, ones that truly stand out among the crowd and make me wonder what the hell is really wrong with them.
The information is pulled from the Korean Blade & Soul Wiki and TIG Screenshots. The training tree format will be slightly different. Due to the date the TIG screenshots were posted, it is possible some of the information (such as cooldowns or cast times) is outdated. I assumed that any icon without a key was right click. Once again, I don't claim to be fluent in Korean, some names are literal translations.
The 2012 edition of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles was completed just a few days ago after hosting most of the major companies in the video game industry. The MMOreviews and FreeMMORPGlist team was on hand to witness the best of the expo and presents this video that makes you visit the different [...]
Chang You has released a new weapons overview video of Renaissance Heroes. This new video shows just a few ways you can decimate your opponents. Renaissance Heroes is a brand new MMOFPS developed by Bridea and published in North America by ChangYou (US). The game is set in the beautifully re-imagined world of the 16th [...]
ZQgame has released a new teaser trailer of its free-to-play browser MMORTS Shadowland Online. The game is a social strategy game that allows gamers to manage and expand their empires to discover new environments, regions, characters, and quests. Players will engage in a sophisticated mix of real-time strategy and realistic simulation. Special social features will [...]
Hi Rez Studios with FREE MMORPG and MMO Reviews, is celebrating a Closed Beta giveaway for Smite. Remember that we invite all our users to send us screenshots, videos, or whatever you want in relation with the promotion and we will publish it. You can send it Here. Step 1. Follow us on Facebook: . [...]
ZQ Game has released a new trailer of its upcoming MMO The Lost Titans. This action-adventure MMO will take the player on an epic journey as they fight to save the Greek Pantheon and their world. With skill-based action and vivid, colorful graphics, this game will bring the player a breathtaking story of a young [...]
Snail Games has released a new gameplay video of Age of Wushu that shows how much the Wushu can hurt even through the innocuous pixels. If martial arts are certainly true to defend their own physical safety, Age of Wushu, after a stressful day of hard work, is surely the best way to unload some [...]
Born by the eternal sleep of two titans, Tera (The Exiled Realm of Arborea) is a fantastic world beyond any imagination: by Arun's and Shara's dreams were born first gods, by gods first struggles rose. Created by dreams, earth-born races too had to face each other in the name of gods. But Argon's invasion, alien [...]
Vae Victis has released a new gameplay footage of its new free racing MMO Victory: The Age of Racing. The game casts you in the year 2062, 50 years after the world was almost destroyed and where your only goal is to cross at the top the finish line at the wheel of your car [...]
The publisher NovoPlay and SkyDreams-Software have introduced to the gaming community its new, free-to-play MMOTPS Warkeepers, set in an alternative universe at the time of World War II. And now the players can try the English version of the MMOTPS Warkeepers. Players will discover a World War II in which the most advanced military technology [...]
We sit down with the devs at Turbine to talk about all things Riders of Rohan, the upcoming expansion to Lord of the Rings Online. Pokket gushes about mounted combat... can you blame her? Follow Pokket: https://twitter.com/Pokketsays Follow MMORPG: https://twitter.com/MMORPGcom http://www.mmorpg.com/
Kingston's just sent a note our way with some news we thought was worth sharing. As it turns out, the company's SSDNow V+200 and KC100 SSD drives don't actually encrypt at 256-bit AES claimed; instead, they use 128-bit AES encryption. That's a bummer, but not necessarily catastrophic -- but the problem isn't limited to Kingston SSDs alone. In fact, Kingston and LSI say that the encryption confusion extends to each and every SSD using the SF-2000 series SandForce controller. Intel's confirmed that the SF-2281 found in the Intel SSD 520 (and the OCZ Vertex 3, and the Kingston HyperX, and…) is similarly affected.
The issues were identified during routine QA audits and all parties are working hard to correct the problem and enable full 256-bit AES encryption on the respective SSDs. In fact, LSI says that "the necessary hardware and firmware updates are currently in process to enable full 256-bit encryption for those customers who need it," although Anandtech says that Intel's issue can't be fixed by a simple firmware push.
For now, however, both Kingston and Intel have relabeled their products to correctly call out their true 128-bit encryption capabilities. Remember that any SSD that uses and SandForce SF-2000 or SF-2281 controller will suffer from the same issue; the SSDs named above are not the only ones.
If 256-bit encryption is near and dear to your heart, Intel and Kingston encourage you to reach out to their support teams for assistance. Kingston promises to ensure their customers are "taken care of" and will be able to swap out drives when true 256-bit AES encryption becomes available, while Intel's offering a full refund to anybody who bought an Intel SSD 520 prior to July 1st, 2012 and contacts the company before October 1st.
One final note: Kingston's press release notes that "Feedback from Kingston's customer base regarding the SSDNow V+200 and KC100 model SSDs does not indicate that the encryption feature is critical or widely used in most deployments."
What, encryption isn't important to most folks? How many of you encrypt your hard drive? Do you consider the lack of the supposed 256-bit encryption to be a massive let-down or a mild annoyance?
With all the launch-day DLC, upgradeable options, premium packs and "microtransactions" permeating games these days, sometimes it feels like the $60 you plunk down for a new game is just the down payment. Do microtransactions hurt less if the game is free to play to being with? Crytek's betting on just that; the company plans to go the Tribes: Ascend route and focus solely on F2P titles sometime in the future, after its current slate of big box games -- like Crysis 3 -- are finished and shipped.
"Right now we are in the transitional phase of our company, transitioning from packaged goods games into an entirely free-to-play experience," Cevat Yerli, Crytek's CEO, told Videogamer.com. "What this entails is that our future, all the new games that we're working on, as well new projects, new platforms and technologies, are designed around free-to-play and online, with the highest quality development."
The drive will be based around Crytek's GFACE social F2P service, the publication reports. Yerli says the games will continue to be top-notch, with $10 million to $30 million budgets.
It's an intriguing move by a solidly established developer. Do you think fraggers will flock to Yerli's F2P vision of the future, e-wallets in hand and clamoring to pay for small fees for weapons upgrades, or will switching solely to F2P mean game over for the crew at Crytek?
Remember the active noise-cancelling fans Noctua promised to have on display at the Computex exhibition last week? Well, said cooling technology was indeed available, along with new information about pricing and release info for the products. So does Rotosub's ANC technology actually quiet things down as much as promised? Noctua's posted a video of the noise-cancelling fan in action so that you can judge for yourself.
After watching (and listening) to the video, our ears report that the ANC tech manages to dull the noise of the fans by quite a bit. The soft, soothing quiet is thanks to a team effort by a mic, a signal processor and a metal band in the center of the fan. As the fan spins, the microphone feeds the noise to the signal processor, which does its frequency-finding magic and then delivers a signal to magnets embedded in the tip of the fan blades. The magnets make the blades quiver oh-so-slightly in response to the metal band in the center of the fan, which creates a sound that largely cancels out the noise of the fan itself.
Now for the bad news: Noctua told the Verge than ANC-enabled fans are at least a year away from retail shelves, and the initial versions may be bulky, as they won't necessarily have the mic and signal processor integrated into the body of the fan itself. The fans are also expected to cost somewhere between $40 and $50 bucks, whereas the currently available Noctua NF-F12 can be found for between $20 and $25, depending on where you're shopping.
So, hearing (or not -- ha!) all that, are you still intrigued by active noise-cancelling fans, or does the anticipated price point cool down your enthusiasm?
Just in case you didn't get the hint from the tablet-tastic Windows 8 Metro UI and those 900,000 Android devices activated each and every day: the world is turning into an increasingly touch-focused place. Touchscreens are nice and all, but we prefer our QWERTY to be a little more… tactile. Enter the appropriately named Tactus Technology: while most of our attention was focused on E3 and Computex last week, Tactus stole the show at the Society for Information Display's (SID) conference in Boston with new technology that can create dynamic physical buttons over a touchscreen display on-demand.
According to the white paper Tactus reps sent us, the multi-layered Tactus display technology sits on top of a device's touch sensors and has "micro channels" comprised of multiple tiny holes in predetermined locations; when physical buttons are needed, an optically clear fluid rises up from a lower layer of the Tactus sheet to fill the holes and create the on-demand physical interface. When physical buttons aren't needed, the fluid exits and the display flattens back out, as you can see in the video below.
Tactus claims the technology doesn't add any additional thickness to the touchscreen, as the 0.75mm to 1mm Tactus display replaces the topmost layer of glass or plastic found in current touchscreens. The buttons raise and lower in less than a second. Buttons of virtually any shape and varying heights can be created with the technology, but given its design, the buttons will be limited to whichever keys OEMs choose to include, such as the numeric dialer and QWERTY keypad found in phones.
The company also claims that the morphing display uses very little additional energy, as it only draws power when altering the fluid pressure to initially raise or lower a button. By contrast, vibrating haptic displays suck down juice whenever a button is pressed.
Tactus showed off a prototype of the morphing touchscreen display on an Android tablet at SID and Engadget got its hands on the goodie, proclaiming it to be "truly impressive" despite giving the display a look that's "a mash-up of matte and glossy."
The first Tactus technology-enabled devices aren't expected to ship until next year, but we gotta say, the idea of a Windows 8 tablet or AIO with a dynamic, on-demand tactile keyboard is definitely intriguing. What do you think?
By now most everyone with an Internet connection and even a passing interest in technology news knows about LinkedIn's recent security breach, the one in which 6.5 million LinkedIn hashed passwords were swiped from the site's servers and posted on a Russian website. LinkedIn has been in full damage control ever since, including a post over the weekend outlining steps it's taking to protect its members.
One of those steps involves "working closely with the FBI as they aggressively pursue the perpetrators of this crime." LinkedIn also claims it has put together a "world-class security team," with one of the major goals being a transition from a password database system with hashed passwords to a system with both hashed and salted passwords, providing an extra layer of protection.
That's all well and good going forward, but what about the 6.5 million compromised accounts?
"First, it's important to know that compromised passwords were not published with corresponding email logins," LinkedIn posted on its blog. "At the time they were initially published, the vast majority of those passwords remained hashed, i.e. encoded, but unfortunately a subset of the passwords was decoded. Again, we are not aware of any member information being published at any time in connection with the list of stolen passwords. The only information published was the passwords themselves."
Some users have wondered why they weren't notified immediately following the breach. LinkedIn says it launched an investigation as soon as it learned of the theft, and once confirmed, began addressing its members. LinkedIn also claims it disabled passwords that had been decoded.
Remember when Samsung and Dropbox announced some time back that Galaxy S III smartphone owners would enjoy an extra 48GB of online storage courtesy of Dropbox, which amounted to 50GB after factoring in the 2GB of free storage everyone gets? Well, if that's a selling point for you, be careful selecting a wireless carrier, because not all are willing to participate.
"Select carriers have opted-out of the promotion on phones otherwise eligible. Unfortunately, AT&T and Verizon are among these carriers not currently participating," Dropbox now states on its promo page.
Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular are all planning to offer the Galaxy S III in the next few weeks, and so far there's nothing stating that each and every one of them won't participate. On the bright side, even if all U.S. carriers pull the plug, it's not the end of the world, as the additional storage space wouldn't last forever anyway.
"When the 2-year promotion period ends, the user's Dropbox service will automatically downgrade to the current amount of free storage space offered to all users with free accounts plus an additional 3 GB of storage space, unless the user signs up for a Dropbox Pro or Teams subscription," Dropbox says.
Still, this is a crummy thing for AT&T and Verizon to do, and one would hope it's not being done out of spite towards Samsung for disallowing carrier-customized versions of the Galaxy S III.
Back in May of this year, Kaspersky Lab announced the discovery of a "highly sophisticated malicious program" called Flame that's capable of stealing valuable information from targeted systems, including audio conversations. Kaspersky Lab later referred to Flame as "the most complex cyber-weapon to date," and following in-depth research, has discovered that the criminal minds behind it are in cahoots with the developers of Stuxnet and Duqu.
As the evidence piles up, the ones responsible for igniting the Flame virus are trying to remotely wipe the code from infected systems, presumably to prevent victims from ever realizing their data was stolen, the Los Angeles Timesreports. As you read this, computer experts are trying to reverse engineer the code to figure out how best to protect PCs from the infection, and possibly to identify the attackers responsible.
Vikram Thakur, a security guru with Symantec, tells the L.A. Times that it's a move to "cover their tracks in any way they can." The interesting thing about it, he says, is that they're even "willing to take the risk of connecting to the servers, which could be watched."
Apparently, the cyber crooks know they're being watched and created a cleanup command weeks ago, one that overwrites infected disks with a bunch of random code.
No, Android co-founder and current senior vice president of Mobile at Google isn't leaving the sultan of search to join a startup called CloudCar. Reports to the contrary are nothing more than rumors and speculation, all plucked from Richard Scoble's recent Google+ post, in which he clearly acknowledged news of Rubin's departure could very well be a rumor (and has since been updated to confirm that it was). Rubin cleared the air on Twitter and Google+, and also took the opportunity to drop a staggering statistic about Android.
"No plans to leave Google," Rubin tweeted. "Oh, and just for meme completeness -- there are over 900,000 Android devices activated each day."
Android activations could top a million devices per day by the end of the year, and if not by then, likely soon after. If we look back, Rubin said Android activations stood at 850,000 per day in February of this year, and 700,000 daily activations in December 2011. Perhaps Android is just getting started and not "peaking" as International Data Corporation recently predicted.
As for CloudCar and how Rubin got linked to it, he explains on Google+.
"How a rumor gets factualized: CloudCar are a group of friends who I give free office space to in my incubator in Los Altos," Rubin clarified on Google+. "Revel Touch (Mar Hershenson's company: www.reveltouch.com) is another cool company that shares this space. I'm not joining either one and I don't have any plans to leave Google. See you on the 27th!"
OGPlanet has announced the latest update for SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online.
The update adds two new scenario missions for players to experience. Also added are two new S rank units, the Destiny Gundam and F91 Gundaom; plus new units for the Custom Capsule Machine, including the Gundam Age and Windam (CR Rank) Gundams.
OGPlanet also publishes Rumble Fighter and Lost Saga.
OGPlanet’s SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online Implements New Missions and Units
Gundam Age , Windam, Destiny Gundam and F91 Gundam Units Report For Duty
Torrance, Calif.-June 11, 2012- OGPlanet, an innovative provider of Free-to-Play multiplayer online games, announced today that they have released two new scenario missions, implemented two new S rank units, and updated the Custom Capsule Machine for their popular multiplayer third-person shooter game, SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online.
On top of the exciting missions that SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online currently offers, two new scenario missions have been added for players to enjoy. Additionally, players can now enjoy a whole new experience with units exclusive to the Custom Capsule Machine, including the brand new Gundam Age and Windam (CR Rank) Gundams! And if that wasn’t enough, two new S rank units have been released. Players can put their Newtype controls to the test and pilot both the Destiny Gundam and the F91 Gundam.
“Based on the overwhelmingly positive response we’ve received since the game’s launch, we have decided to continue with the trend of giving back to our users by implementing even more Gundam content,” said OGPlanet marketing manager, Eugene Choi. “We are working diligently to provide our players with the best online Gundam experience possible, which includes continuously adding new content and fine-tuning existing gameplay.”
Since the North American release of SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online, OG Planet has been constantly releasing new content for the game, including new arenas, Gundam units, items, and even a free Gundam VoD service that has been integrated directly into the SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online website.
To check out the game for free or for more information on SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online, please visit the official game page located at http://sdgo.ogplanet.com/en/main.og. And for up to the minute news, events, contests, and giveaways, please visit and “Like” the official SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online Facebook page located at http://www.facebook.com/SDGONA.
NGames has announced that Pockie Pirates will arrive on their Game321 portal this summer.
Pockie Pirates is based on the One Piece anime, and lets players quest to become the ultimate Pirate King. The game will be a horizontal side-scrolling RPG, featuring both strategy and tactics with action gameplay. Players will be able to run their ship, build a fleet, and claim their own exotic island in search for the greatest treasures. Closed beta is planned to start in June.
NGames also publishes Pockie Ninja, based on Naruto and Bleach.
Pockie Pirates Gameplay Screenshot
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One Piece inspired “Pockie Pirates” Launching this Summer
Brand new Pirate MMORPG setting sail soon.
Publisher NGames have announced an exciting new addition to their line of anime-inspired “Pockie” games – Pockie Pirates. Based on the popular “One Piece” anime, Pockie Pirates lets players roam the seas on an epic quest to become the ultimate Pirate King.
Some Dreams Never Die
As One Piece protagonist Monkey D. Luffy once said: “One day I’ll have a ship and crew better than yours! And we’ll have the biggest hoard of treasure in the world! Yeah, I’ll become the Pirate King!”
This is the premise of Pockie Pirates, a thrilling, graphically lush new game from publisher NGames – best known for their popular Naruto and Bleach inspired MMO, Pockie Ninja.
Closed beta launching late June
Pockie Pirates is the first horizontal side-scrolling RPG released on the Game321 network.
Based on the popular “One Piece” anime, players take on the role of a young pirate determined to find the Legendary Treasures and become the King of the Pirates.
A plethora of fun, yet challenging tasks await on the quest to dominate the high seas. There are no shortage of enemies roaming the Pockie Pirates oceans, all of them hell bent on claiming the valuable undersea treasures for themselves – and by any means possible!
Pockie Pirates mixes a refined blend of strategy and tactics with an entertaining game plot. Cute characters based on the One Piece franchise, dazzling skills and abilities, and quality-designed backgrounds promise to bring a charming, exciting adventure game world to life.
MMORPG, Pirate and One Piece fans alike can team up with trustworthy buddies to run a pirate ship, build fleets, and even claim an exotic island of their very own to store treasures and share stories of their adventures.
Become the king of the Pirates and join Pockie Pirates on Game321 this summer. You can pre-register at the official website here: http://pirates.game321.com/
ChangYou has released a new video highlighting weapons in Renaissance Heroes.
The video gives a quick, action-packed glimpse at four types of weapons: Rifles (which are mid-range and rapid fire), Crossbows (which are long-range and feature zoom), Melee (which are close range and include bombs), and Special weapons (which include heavy weapons and explosives).
Renaissance Heroes is an MMOFPS set in a re-imagined 16th century Renaissance Europe. You can check out more in our Renaissance Heroes First Look.
Renaissance Heroes: Weapons Video
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Renaissance Heroes Weapons Overview Video Now Available
One of the best parts of Renaissance Heroes is walking up to an enemy and blasting them to a bloody pulp! The new Weapons overview video shows just a few ways you can decimate your opponents.
Renaissance Heroes is a brand new online multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) developed by Bridea and published in North America by ChangYou (US). The game is set in the beautifully re-imagined world of the 16th century Renaissance Europe and combines classic multiplayer action with unparalleled visual realism powered by the Unreal Engine 3 technology to deliver the fun of fast-action shooters to a new generation of gamers. Renaissance Heroes invites players of all skill levels to experience the adrenaline-pumping action coupled with easy accessibility in a completely free to play environment later this year.
For the latest information on the game, please visit the official website at www.RenaissanceHeroes.com or the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RenaissanceHeroes
There were few titles at this year's E3 that had me itching to play again and again but PlanetSide 2 proved that it could still scratch that obscure but profound itch I've had for all these years. I am of course talking about the itch that can only be satisfied by engaging in battles with thousands of other players simultaneously. Not only are the battles massive in PlanetSide 2, but so is its level of persistence.
There is no lobby system in Planetside 2. PlanetSide 2 is an open world MMOFPS and a free one at that. Not many games have succeeded or even tried to reach its level of scale in the past and one of the only ones that has was its predecessor. It's a daunting task to place so many players in one persistent world and something altogether different when you consider that these aren't players using hotskill abilities but in fact aiming and shooting thousands of rounds of ammunition with real time bullet tracking.
In PlanetSide 2 you choose from one of three factions to play as, the Terran Republic, New Conglomerate, and the Vanu Sovereignty. Each faction posses faction specific armor, weapons and vehicles. From here you will fight over territory over dozens of square kilometers of seamless gameplay space. PlanetSide 2 battles can last for days as your faction struggles to conquer the enormous maps. To do this you capture bases which solidify your foothold in an area of the map. The more bases you own the more bonuses you get ranging from ammo bonuses to tech bonuses and more.
At E3 we tasted just one area, an area that could be considered a mere blip on the enormous PlanetSide 2 map. Yet this area alone was at least twice the size of a Battlefield 3 64 player map and offered plenty of space of players so shoot those of the enemy factions as infantry or in vehicles. Bringing me to my next point, THIS GAME HAS TONS OF VEHICLES!
As a huge Battlefield fan I always love it when shooters implement vehicles. In PlanetSide 2 vehicles aren't a gimmick or just another source of transportation. These vehicles range from small ATVs to tanks, gunships, mobile outfit and spawn stations and even robotic exoskeletons all armed to the teeth with customizable weapons and abilities.
I found myself spending the most time in a MAX suit. A MAX suit is sort of a pseudo vehicle class that spawns you inside a faction specific mechanical exoskeleton. You are a fair bit larger and slower then everyone else but you posses 2 weapons mounted on each arm as well as increased health. Depending on what my team needed I would often spawn in with double infantry machine guns or opt for a machine gun/rocket launcher combo. This allowed me to either be completely focused on crushing the enemy infantry or help deal with incoming tanks. While the MAX suit may make you feel like you are a one man army, you are still susceptible to focused gunfire and enemy rockets and you cannot initiate the capture of a base. This makes the MAX class more suited for providing defense to your team mates.
One of the most important things to find out about a new title going F2P is its pricing structure. Thankfully PlaneSide 2 won't be offering any sort of Pay 2 Win alternatives. Everything ingame that affects gameplay will be purchasable via resources earned in-game through actual gameplay. Players can choose to pay real money to unlock cosmetic camouflage patterns and armor paint jobs as well as the typical XP boosts.
Overall PlanetSide 2 is shaping up to be the most innovative shooter this year. To say I am excited for PlanetSide 2 would be a gross understatement, I am ecstatic! For more PlanetSide 2, check out the latest PlanetSide 2 screenshots below or the official MMOHut PlanetSide 2 game profile.
PlanetSide 2 Screenshots
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Kingston's just sent a note our way with some news we thought was worth sharing. As it turns out, the company's SSDNow V+200 and KC100 SSD drives don't actually encrypt at 256-bit AES claimed; instead, they use 128-bit AES encryption. That's a bummer, but not necessarily catastrophic -- but the problem isn't limited to Kingston SSDs alone. In fact, Kingston and LSI say that the encryption confusion extends to each and every SSD using the SF-2000 series SandForce controller. Intel's confirmed that the SF-2281 found in the Intel SSD 520 (and the OCZ Vertex 3, and the Kingston HyperX, and…) is similarly affected.
With all the launch-day DLC, upgradeable options, premium packs and "microtransactions" permeating games these days, sometimes it feels like the $60 you plunk down for a new game is just the down payment. Do microtransactions hurt less if the game is free to play to being with? Crytek's betting on just that; the company plans to go the 
Just in case you didn't get the hint from the tablet-tastic Windows 8 Metro UI and those 900,000 Android devices activated each and every day: the world is turning into an increasingly touch-focused place. Touchscreens are nice and all, but we prefer our QWERTY to be a little more… tactile. Enter the appropriately named Tactus Technology: while most of our attention was focused on E3 and Computex last week, Tactus stole the show at the Society for Information Display's (SID) conference in Boston with new technology that can create dynamic physical buttons over a touchscreen display on-demand.
By now most everyone with an Internet connection and even a passing interest in technology news knows about LinkedIn's recent security breach, the one in which 6.5 million LinkedIn hashed passwords were swiped from the site's servers and posted on a Russian website. LinkedIn has been in full damage control ever since, including a post over the weekend outlining steps it's taking to protect its members.
Remember when Samsung and Dropbox announced some time back that Galaxy S III smartphone owners would enjoy an extra 48GB of online storage courtesy of Dropbox, which amounted to 50GB after factoring in the 2GB of free storage everyone gets? Well, if that's a selling point for you, be careful selecting a wireless carrier, because not all are willing to participate.
Back in May of this year, Kaspersky Lab 
No, Android co-founder and current senior vice president of Mobile at Google isn't leaving the sultan of search to join a startup called CloudCar. Reports to the contrary are nothing more than rumors and speculation, all plucked from Richard Scoble's recent 
