While Sony struggles to recover from a PlayStation Network security breach that exposed personal information from millions of gamers, one player has filed a lawsuit and analysts estimate the hammered company could lose billions of dollars from the debacle.

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If you have been playing “Portal 2″ nonstop since the release, you’ll surely appreciate this interactive, talking Portal turret plush.


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While Sony struggles to recover from a PlayStation Network security breach that exposed personal information from millions of gamers, one player has filed a lawsuit and analysts estimate the hammered company could lose billions of dollars from the debacle.

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Social gamers know virtual worlds such as FarmVille and Bejeweled Blitz all too well, but a new form of online gaming is infiltrating the entertainment industry by rewarding viewers with big prizes for sharing articles, making comments and watching trailers about their favorite TV shows and movies.


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Samfer writes with this excerpt from Operation Reality Gaming:”[…] sometime this summer, likely around August, we will see the appearance online of both a Crysis 2 editor and a CryEngine 3 SDK (software development kit). This not only means that people will be able to make full blown new levels for Crysis 2 but that the CryEngine 3 will also be made publicly available for the development of non-commercial projects to the community at large. To quote, ‘This will be a complete version of our engine, including C++ code access, our content exporters (including our LiveCreate real-time pipeline), shader code, game sample code from Crysis 2, script samples, new improved Flowgraph and a whole host of great asset examples, which will allow teams to build complete games from scratch for PC.’”


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ZorbaTHut writes “I’ve been playing a lot of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup lately. It’s a great example of a roguelike (and open source, too). But I can’t stop thinking that perhaps ‘roguelike’ is the wrong term for the genre. ‘Roguelikes aren’t about dungeons. They’re not about text-based graphics, or random artifacts, or permadeath. … Roguelikes are about using an unpredictable toolkit with complex interactions in order to overcome unpredictable challenges.’”


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Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: FamilyVillage is a Facebook app that’s a cross between genealogy and social gaming. Think of it as a CityVille populated by your own ancestors.

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Review: Water for Elephants is a sort of comeback film for Reese Witherspoon and a coming out film for Robert Pattinson, but will it do the trick?
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Despite how annoying the phrase ‘white iPhone’ has become, the device will have some serious implications for Apple sales.
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