The EVE Online Facebook page has word that CCP has been forced to take EVE Online, DUST 514, and their websites offline due to a denial of service attack (thanks Massively). Here's word:

At 02:05 GMT June 2nd, CCP became aware of a significant and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the Tranquility cluster (which houses EVE Online and DUST 514) and web servers.

Our policy in such cases is to mobilize a taskforce of internal and external experts to evaluate the situation. At 03:07 GMT, that group concluded that our best course of action was to go completely offline while we put in place mitigation plans.

While we initially reopened EVE Online and DUST 514, we have since re-evaluated. With the highest sense of precaution we have taken Tranquility and associated websites back down for further investigation and an exhaustive scan of our entire infrastructure. We will update you more frequently via our Twitter feed (www.twitter.com/eveonline), however, an extended service interruption of several hours is expected as this process should not be rushed.

Here's Valve's accounting of the 10 bestselling games on Steam for the past week:

1. Alan Wake Franchise
2. Wargame: AirLand Battle
3. Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods
4. Chivalry Medieval Warfare
5. Rising Storm
6. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
7. Metro: Last Light
8. Dust: an Elysian Tail
9. DmC: Devil May Cry
10. GRID 2

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I had a pair of neat slip-on sneakers made as dock or surfing shoes or something similar that I was in love with after finding them as a discontinued item a few years ago. I wore them out pretty well, and have looked far and wide for replacements since then, but as I say, these were a discontinued line, by Timberland of all companies, and I could never find anything with a similar lightweight neoprene construction. That is until today, when I found something remarkably identical... in the supermarket of all places. And it just gets better from there: These are mostly black, while the old ones were a dark blue that faded to an odd purple, and being supermarket footwear they were priced at $8.99 a pair. I don't care where the're from, the next time I'm there I'm buying them out in my size.

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