With the Xbox One beta testing of
Titanfall now open to all users,
Vince
Zampella tweeted last night about plans to open testing of the Windows PC
edition of the mech shooter to all, saying this may happen as soon as today:
"Opening XB1 first, at some point tonight. PC will follow, maybe tomorrow." In
the meantime, he has been tweeting lists of codes for the PC beta. Thanks
Polygon.
The
Path of Exile
website announces Sacrifice of the Vaal, a mini-expansion coming to Grinding
Gears' action/RPG on March 5th (thanks S.TODD). Here's what to expect:
Path of Exile's first mini-expansion, Sacrifice of
the Vaal, launches at 1pm PST on March 5. It expands the core game and sets
the pace for our ongoing four-monthly updates. Today we're proud to announce
both the name and theme of the update, while teasing some of the scope of
how far the Vaal corruption has spread through Wraeclast.
More information will be teased and released over the following two weeks,
with a full reveal of content on February 28 at the culmination of our
upcoming press tour!
The
Kickstarter website offers an "Important Kickstarter Security Notice"
announcing that the crowdfunding service suffered a data breach last week
(thanks
The Verge). While no credit card information was compromised, details
including usernames and encrypted passwords were accessed, so they
apologetically warn users to change these passwords wherever they were in use:
No credit card data of any kind was
accessed by hackers. There is no evidence of unauthorized activity of
any kind on all but two Kickstarter user accounts.
While no credit card data was accessed, some information about our customers
was. Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing
addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Actual passwords were not
revealed, however it is possible for a malicious person with enough
computing power to guess and crack an encrypted password, particularly a
weak or obvious one.
As a precaution, we strongly recommend that you create a new password for
your Kickstarter account, and other accounts where you use this password.
To change your password, log in to your Kickstarter account and look for the
banner at the top of the page to create a new, secure password. We recommend
you do the same on other sites where you use this password. For additional
help with password security, we recommend tools like
1Password
and LastPass.
Here's Valve's accounting of the 10 bestselling games on Steam for the past
week:
- DayZ
- Rust
- Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition
- Total War: ROME II
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition
- 7 Days to Die
- Starbound
- South Park: The Stick of Truth
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Ultimate Edition
Still working on getting things back to normal here. As I mentioned yesterday,
the ads are gone until we can figure out why one or more of them was
misbehaving. That should help a little with the page load, as it's gotten a
little long already. Thanks again for your patience while we work things out.
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