Electronic Arts has sent out some new screenshots and details from their upcoming Town Life Stuff pack for The Sims 3. Due out on July 26th, 2011 the Town Life Stuff pack adds new equipment to use and decorate as well as some new outfits and places to visit.
Ronimo Games has announced that its Swords & Soldiers is now on Steam as part of the Indie Variety Pack. Retailing for $9.99, the pack also contains the indie titles A.R.E.S., Atom Zombie Smasher, Capsized and Machinarium.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released the official launch trailer to their upcoming shooter, FEAR 3. FEAR 3 is due out on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PC platforms come June 21.
It has certainly been a busy week for hacker groups – it would seem that a day doesn’t go by that you don’t hear of yet another online service being attacked for one reason or another. Today, SEGA has responded to the intrusion into their SEGA Pass service, as well as addressing payment information concerns.
Dear XXXX,
As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has been offline since yesterday, Thursday 16 June.
Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our SEGA Pass database.
We immediately took the appropriate action to protect our consumers’ data and isolate the location of the breach. We have launched an investigation into the extent of the breach of our public systems.
We have identified that a subset of SEGA Pass members emails addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained. To stress, none of the passwords obtained were stored in plain text.
Please note that no personal payment information was stored by SEGA as we use external payment providers, meaning your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion.
If you use the same login information for other websites and/or services as you do for SEGA Pass, you should change that information immediately.
We have also reset your password and all access to SEGA Pass has been temporarily suspended.
Additionally we recommend you please take extra caution if you should receive suspicious emails that ask for personal or sensitive information.
Therefore please do not attempt to login to SEGA Pass at present, we will communicate when the service becomes available.
We sincerely apologise for this incident and regret any inconvenience caused.
We are contacting all our members with these recommendations.
If you have any further questions please contact SEGA customer support on csescalations@sega.com
According to a recent tweet by Sony Online Entertainment president, John Smedley, the company will be unveiling a big announcement regarding Planetside Next at their upcoming Sony Online Entertainment Fan Faire. The 2011 Fan Faire takes place in Las Vegas from July 7th through July 9th. Stay-tuned for more!
@j_smedley John Smedley
For all you Planetside Next fans stay tuned for a big announcement at our upcoming Fan Faire in Vegas!
Hi-Rez Studios has announced the free-to-play release of their online shooter, Global Agenda, on Valve’s Steam platform. In celebration of this release, the game is allowing all players the ability to fly about the game’s “social area”.
“We are excited to partner with Valve and offer Global Agenda as a launch title within Steam’s Free-To-Play category.”, says Todd Harris, Hi-Rez Studios COO. “Steam has a thriving community of shooter fans. And we think those players will enjoy Global Agenda as a AAA-quality class-based shooter with great graphics, great gameplay, PvP and PvE, and now downloadable via Steam at no charge.”
You may have seen those big Redbox DVD rental machines at your local outdoor mall or grocery store. Well, beginning this Friday, those machines will also begin renting video games. Redbox machines will rent out games for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii platforms for a price of $2 dollars a day.
“Nicholson Electroplating” is available for download Tuesday, June 21 via PlayStation Network ($3.99) and Xbox LIVE (320 MS Points) and free of charge for owners of the Rockstar Pass. For those who missed out on the limited-time Rockstar Pass price discount, the promotion has been extended and will now expire on June 21.
Cycling enthusiasts take note, Cyanide Studios and Focus Home Interactive have announced that they will be bringing their cycling simulation, Le Tour de France, to consoles this Summer on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms.
Patrick Pligersdorffer, CEO of Cyanide says, “It’s been a long time that we (at Cyanide) have been thinking of a cycling game especially designed for home consoles. We could not adapt on consoles what perfectly works on PC with Pro Cycling Manager, so we worked on different prototypes before arriving at a satisfying result last year. Tour de France is the first important step in our quest for the ideal cycling simulation for home consoles.”
ZEN Studios has announced that they will be releasing a Captain America inspired pinball table for their Marvel Pinball game on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Set in the classic World War II environment inspired by Ed Brubaker’s Captain America 65th Anniversary Special, the table engages Cap, Bucky and members of the Howling Commandos in a full assault on Baron Zemo’s castle, where Zemo’s Death Ray and canisters of Adhesive X must be neutralized. As the game progresses, Cap will need to free his friends in the Howling Commandos and defeat several low-level missions as he works to confront the Sleeper before taking the Cosmic Cube from the Red Skull in the final battle.
The new table will be released on June 28th for the PlayStation Network and June 29th for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
