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Ubisoft Club Announced

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Broken Joysticks

Earlier today Ubisoft released a trailer announcing the creation of the “Ubisoft Club”. It will be a system spanning across multiple of the publisher’s titles which will allow the player to earn experience and insignias while playing, which can then be turned into rewards for long-time fans.

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Pokemon GO is getting a huge amount of funding from big names

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

Google, Nintendo, and the Pokemon Company are reportedly pouring money on to Niantic Labs, the developer of Pokemon GO.  Pokemon go the recently announced AR pokemon game made by the company that made Ingress was launched to incredible fanfare in early September of this year. Initial reports said the PR demo video was too good to be true, but reports coming out of the company now cite Google, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company as each pouring at least 10 million dollars each in to the games development. Initial worries that the game was not to be a core property and

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Turtle Beach PX24 and 60P Headsets Now Available At Retail

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Headset maker Turtle Beach has announced the availability of two brand new headsets – The PX24 and the 60P. Both of these headsets aren’t going to cost you an arm and a leg or even a whole pile of cash – so they’re budget friendly regardless of your gaming platform of choice. The Ear Force® PX24 is compatible with multiple consoles through its 3.55MM Jack, supports surround sound, has a Bass Boost feature  and a built in Mic-Check feature! According to Turtle Beach it will MSRP for $79.99 USD. Here’s a full feature breakdown that they provided us: Multiplatform Compatibility–

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Fallout 4’s Minimum Specs Might Leave Your PC In Ruins

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Bethesda’s absolutely massive open world roleplaying game (that some people have successfully argued isn’t a roleplaying game but rather a society simulator) is due out in exactly a month and now we know the minimum PC Specs as well as the hard drive requirements for console players. Get ready to check your graphics cards and clear out your hard drive because the nukes are about to fall! In terms of minimum PC specs these numbers aren’t so bad – the Phenom II 940 is a rather old processor from about five years ago and anyone who’s upgraded their graphics hardware

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WARNING Critical NetGear router Exploit discovered.

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

NETGEAR routers have again become the victims of a DNS monitoring exploit. Potentially affecting 11,000 Devices. Site thehackernews.com first posted about A Vigilante Hacker, who protected users by installing malware on their Wi-Fi routers, forcing them to use a secure password. A few days later a security researcher (name not given) claims to have discovered a series vulnerability in the routers of the same model.  The exploit has been published as of today check out this link to see details on this vulnerability in Netgear routers.  The real meat of this exploit is that it allows hackers to change Domain Name System (DNS) settings

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