77 million PlayStation Network users at the mercy of Sony's incompetence and or alleged hackers

Sony is to blame for the vulnerability in their system , the arrogance that allowed the vulnerability to go unchecked. And most of all Sony is to blame if your credit card and personal details are now being sold to the lowest bidder. 


The writing has been on the PlayStation wall for a long time , a now celebrity list of benign hackers has constantly shown vulnerabilities in the PlayStation OS and network.


Instead of criminally and legally pursuing kids Sony should have been hiring the likes of geohot or whatever his tag was , to highlight the weaknesses in their system.


If you too are one of the 77 million , placed at risk by Sony's arrogance , then join thegameveda in praying this is just a benign hacker out to prove a point ,to muddy Sony's nose .


A week into this and it has gone from a mild annoyance at not being able to play Portal 2 on PSN , to  the single most potentially serious foul up  for consumers in the history of video games or for that matter e-commerce.


This is Sony? thegameveda can hear the heavy purring of white cats being stroked by Steves Jobs and Ballmer ......who do you think will carve up Sony first?






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No PSN ? So what ? Time to use that PC

In a shocking turn of events millions of PSN users are without access to Sony's online service . This is a great advert for Steam , and PC gaming in general  .The latest and most highly rated Steam game Portal 2 , launched in time to coincide with the PSN outage , includes both the PC and PS3 PSN versions in its box . Now millions of , or lets say a few hundred thousand PS3 users can simply bypass the PSN outage and play the PC version instead.

The indestructible nature of the open Internet as a gaming platform   is why in the age of consoles everyone who is serious about gaming should be doing so on a PC as well. And fans need to keep the pressure on developers to avoid closed server models .

Any closed environment whether PSN ,Xbox live . iOS , or recent acts like removing the ability to run dedicated servers for major PC games , just leaves the companies behind these products open to hostile attacks , like the one taking down PSN at the moment .

There is no fall back option , so a single incident can take down an entire company , like last years clock malfunction on the PS3,the present attack , or lets say the password scare on payment for iOS Apps last year .

It seems in seeking to strictly control access to their exclusive content, these companies and more importantly their customers  , whose details , including credit card details are all handled by controlled gateways like PSN , are vulnerable to attack. .

Sony Apple and Microsoft need to protect their business by using more open Internet related models for their online networks and games, right now it is clearly all too easy to throw a spanner in the works and shut down an entire platform . All three have faced problems in the last year alone.

These problems are never going to happen to your PC, so dust it off get to Steam , and get your Portal fix there ,  This may also be a good time to back up your PS3 hard disk , as who knows if the games are still going to be on your account when you log on , when they get PSN back up and running finally! 

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Over 100 million PSN and SOE accounts hacked : the end of online gaming as we know it?

So for a week now thegameveda has  joked about the Sony PSN hack  , today whilst checking JUNK MAIL , thegameveda found the official warning  of the SOE hack . My beloved PC gaming nirvana has been threatened. This is the 4th online mess I have personally faced in the last year , two from Apple  and now two from Sony, all involving credit card detail theft or misuse and rooted in weak security for online stores and payment methods .  


Thegameveda correctly  predicted that the hackers would not  be happy with 77 million PSN accounts , and now the score is up to over 100 million , including the latest SOE , PC accounts , data that Sony stored  partially unencrypted since 2007 ! 


The key thing here is this data goes back to 2007 , you may have to check all your old email addresses for the warning , it would be safest to just get onto SOE and delete your account , they always told us video games were bad for our health ! so now would be a great time to ditch Everquest , avoid that impeding divorce , and get a real life. 


Going Dark :


Dig out that VCS ,  and play that wonderful Tank game , whilst the rebirth of 70 s style cartridges may be far fetched , there is now a major gap in the games market , a need that must be filled , and that is safe , personal detail entry/exchange free gaming , its not that hard to do really , we have been gaming without handing details over to media giants for over 30 years . 


Come on you never had to hand over your bank details to play the best games of your youth now did you ? So why should the big boys ( now with their pants firmly pulled down  and wedgied by recent hacks)  expect  you to do so with PSN , XBox live, SOE  or any other online service.


This is a global Internet attack , that governments should be handling , that it started through a medium  - online gaming - that many , including governments consider frivolous at best is irrelevant .  Someone at a very senior level should be fixing this now , and they should not be relying on Sony.


Nations and global companies will fall:


The Sony PSN , and now SOE hack is the first global Internet disaster , clearly the biggest hack of all time , and is still going on . 


In a week we have gone from an service  outage , no explanation from Sony , to 77 million PSN accounts hacked and now over 100 million including PC accounts .


This is the greatest act of gross negligence by a company using the Internet for business in the short history of e-commerce and online gaming. 


So we are up to 100 million , I truly believe there are hackers out there now pushing for 1 billion and if not that at the very least the first Total Global Internet Commerce Shutdown event in the history of the Internet. 


Someone somewhere should be taking this very seriously, and they are which is why the media is treating it with frivolity to cover up the actual harm this is causing , as a 60 second news bite  , with  the obligatory badly facial haired geek gamer complaining about not being able to play with his "mates"


With 100 million and climbing affected should the Playstation Hack now be classified as  a religion , a country , a movement ? or an army , perhaps the first Internet Pandemic ? 


The knock on effects will propel this hack to over a billion people affected , and surely it cannot all be because of the lack of PSN and SOE security?


Do ya feel lucky CyberPunk?
They are asking us to change credit cards , ok , but they are also asking us to give them those new credit card details , when and if they fix this . Do you trust  Sony ? Or do you trust the hackers to bypass the additional security?


If you missed the riff check out the original The Day The Earth Stood Still 


And here is the text of the LATEST Sony Online Entertainment warning email , which considering my old email account is one of 100 million in possession of hackers , may or may not be real ! Remember to check your junk mail , and any email accounts that you were using circa 2007 !

May 2, 2011

Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer:

Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, state, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password. Customers outside the United States should be advised that we further discovered evidence that information from an outdated database from 2007 containing approximately 12,700 non-US customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) – we will be notifying each of those customers promptly.

There is no evidence that our main credit card database was compromised. It is in a completely separate and secured environment.

We had previously believed that SOE customer data had not been obtained in the cyber-attacks on the company, but on May 1st we concluded that SOE account information may have been stolen and we are notifying you as soon as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the attack and as a result, we have:

1. Temporarily turned off all SOE game services; 2. Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and 3. Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.

We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.

For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When SOE’s services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your Station or SOE game account name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.

To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your credit reports.

We are committed to helping our customers protect their personal data and we will provide a complimentary offering to assist users in enrolling in identity theft protection services and/or similar programs. The implementation will be at a local level and further details will be made available shortly in regions in which such programs are commonly utilized.

We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please contact us at + 44 870-600-0267 (Monday to Friday 15:00 to 22:00 GMT excluding holidays) should you have any additional questions.

Sincerely, Sony Online Entertainment LLC

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Free post PSN SOE Hack games from Sony: Letting the Trojan Horse back in or smashing a Sony Piñata?

Get up stand up don't believe the hype
Over on the EU blog yesterday Sony announced its un-severance package , it's make up offer , like a very bad ex girl/boyfriend that comes back with an enticing offer ..after they have been caught  abusing your credit card ,  and trust ....revealing private details to the world .. 


Should you take them back , for like ancient Achaeans  , they bare gifts  (in this case of free games ), for your  PS3 and PSP ( PSN was also not functioning in Homers time), is that enough for you to hand over your personal details , and shiny new credit card , and rekindle the old relationship ? What was that old presidential chestnut , fool me once .... fool me ag`in ..maybe we should all just change our PSN tags to Dubbya...


Sony CEO`s big pimpin` on the PS3 
I am as inclined to offer Sony my new credit card as I would be inclined to offer it to an ex girlfriend turning up with a couple of free PS3 games ... The PSN hack needs to be resolved in court , in international court , no amount of short term security is going to protect either your personal or credit card details , unless and until an independent inquiry is conducted into the Sony PSN and SOE hacks .We do not need free games , we need full and free independent , government level investigation , we need court class actions to run their course . 


The mouse that caught the cat ?
Sony is famously unhesitating in pursuing customers* who it sees harming it`s business, driving teenagers to flee their country for fear of prosecution,switching off or removing functionality as it sees fit  , now it is customers who are going to pursue Sony . You will see ambulance chasers chasing mice chasing cats , big suited Sony cats through courts....and they will catch them !


*hackers were customers once....oh the humanity.....


Sony facing righteous fire from the 101 million dragons
Goliath is always the customer , not the company , as so many businesses these days forget ,customers pay their wages.Interestingly the offer of free games is announced for the EU first , Sony is stronger here than anywhere , but if legal action starts to take off ,the EU will take a far harsher stance with Sony than they would get in the USA or Japan , just ask Microsoft and Nintendo . In the EU this can happen and will happen without the need for ambulance chasing lawyers pursuing class actions.


Be the change that you want to see in the Internet
The Sony hack is an opportunity for you the 101 million dragons to change online gaming for ever 


write/facebook/tweet /speak  to your Senator or MP ( or benevolent dictator/monarch*,**)


1. demand strict and free peremanent Internet security from online companies that store our details And I mean government level encryption , protection and checks. So that any company that in the course of its function stores data ,not only encrypts it but protects it . Or they can go back to selling cartridges
2. demand a formal public open independent investigation into the Sony hack 
3. demand that ALL online games companies and media companies have in future to adhere to the findings and recommendations of that inquiry :globally 
4. Demand such companies pass a certification and are tested regularly
5.go to your window and scream I am as angry as hell and am not going to ta... sorry go watch Network instead!
6. demand they do this now and are not allowed to bribe us with 2 or 3 free games  and 1 year of free security , which we will have to pay for from next year and will likely be bypassed by the next lot of hackers.
7. Find the hackers , learn from them and create your protection protocol from that information , do not rely on scaremongering overcharging ineffectual Internet security firms seeking to exploit this situation.
8. download your free 2 ps3 games and PSP games , and have some fun gaming whilst the wheels of justice turn and make the Internet a better and safer place

* take special care  when contacting dictators or Monarchs , in some cases they tend to be worse than global giants like Sony...... but hey.. Viva la revolucion!
**  PSN may not be available in some territories run by absolute dictators or monarchs or in any territory where Sony is run by absolute incompetents ( in nice suits)


To restore confidence in Sony there needs to be high level resignation on both Eastern and Western fronts of the Sony empire , this will in the end benefit Sony and its 100s of millions of fans. 

For the Sony hack is just the latest misfire by the heads of Sony in the USA, EU and Japan . 

Over the last half decade Sony has gone from rock solid foundations with the most popular and innovative tech , to overpriced hardware launches , missing out on the entire mp3 /iTunes market , missing the tablet revolution , and falling behind Microsoft for core gamer money , and Nintendo for Casual .  And now way behind Apple in everything from design  , to delivery , price ,reliability and most damagingly brand kudos.

The PlayStation hack and Sony's downward spiral is caused by out of touch CEOs and management across its business model . Think how Steve Jobs or master Gates elevate Apple and Microsoft . Do any of the Sony heads do this ? even if they are recently knighted? 

Sony should see the PSN hack as an opportunity to do some spring cleaning , clear the old boys from management and get some fresh new talent , perhaps poach some from Apple , Google et al.  

The restoration of PSN and SOE services is allegedly happening as I type this , but it is happening without any public inquiry into the matter , within a week over 100 million people will have mostly entrusted Sony with new details and credit card information , all for the sake of 2 PS3 games and a maybe a PSP one , this is a  Piñata , but it is also potentially a Trojan Piñata . 

Governments need to pay attention to this , and not allow companies to get away with lax online security breaches.

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Begun the Sony PSN resurrection has ......

Yes there is a new hope , as the Sony Empire strikes back  ,with a return of the PSN , the phantom menace/attack of the hackers overcome has been after 25 days . To prepare for the end of this first PSN war , all PSNlings should download the latest PSN update  here   It is too early to tell if there will be a revenge of the hackers and or if this the last episode in this great saga..will be .. hehehheheeeee

if you missed the riff and your childhood , check out Star Wars on Bluray ( well at least the Bluray still works on the PS3 ) ..apologies to Mr Lucas!.. or I should  say thanks to George Lucas...


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Is Rockstar`s latest killer App LA Noire a Game Fatale that`s about to murder your PS3 or Xbox 360 ?

The Case of the Console Killer ...Game


I arrived at the scene ready for my first case , a double console homicide,  on the floor next to the tv were two burnt out husks , one a 5 year old phat dark complexion , the other a younger greying plastic kinked box ,  a red ring was showing on one machine , the letters Xbox 360 stood scrawled proudly in plastic on its side .. the other with a dashing faux chrome fender had a flashing yellow light .It looked less used ,like its masters had suddenly without warning turned its network access off for a month .. turned on today only to die a grizzly death.. I looked up and saw static on the two monitors attached to the machines ... 90s nu  jazz was playing in the background. ...although it could have been Kylie Minogue ... I can never tell the difference ... the old Call of Duty headphone volume malfunction shell shock war wound  left me tone def.... Examining the burnt out husks was pointless , too many finger prints littered their plastic shells to make sense ...anyone of hundreds of people could have committed this heinous crime ...but then on the floor still intact I spotted two boxes one clear plastic and the other the colour of adolescent nasal discharge ... and this was the deal clincher ... the games were the same ... Rockstar`s LA Noire ... 


Immediately my detective skills , honed by reading reviews of LA Noire led me to Rockstars Website where they claim to be looking for a solution , after earlier trying to pin the double console homicide onto the console manufacturers , including Sony , a recently recovering victim of other heinous crimes.

Many more consoles could suffer the same fate , the console killer is still out there , and if someone tells you to open another account to play their game , please just take the game back and wait for them to fix it . 

Speaking totally seriously , I have lost the use of the PS3 thanks to hackers for over a month , I am not about to risk my old 60gb PS3 on Rockstars literally console killer game , and my Xbox 360 is going now where near it.

We have reached the stage where todays consoles really canee take any more ... as evidenced by the graphically intense L A Noire , which is causing both Sony PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles to overheat in some cases the 40s murder mystery game is actually murdering the consoles . 

LIke some of the characters in their latest game after a bit of prodding , investigation and questioning by the web Rockstar have admitted the fault lies in the game and not in your console , but for many as this detectives investigations have uncovered this is too late .

Until the full force of the law is brought down on Rockstar .. The Case of the Console Killer Game remains open ... 

The real mystery of course is how EVERY official reviewer managed to miss the small fact that LA Noire has the potential to kill your Sony Playstation 3 and your Xbox 360...

dirty rats.....

right time for donuts and more numetal jazz ...

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L A Noire console killer case cracked wide open ..main suspects Sony, Microsoft and Rockstar see no evil hear no evil...

The Case of the Console Killer Game : Chapter 2 


I motioned to my assistant to pour another kawfee ..black ...like I like my consoles.... turning a chair backwards before sitting down , and setting to work the case in the precinct interrogation..erh interview.. room where smoke still billowed from the dead and dying consoles now ready to be filed into evidence... an open and shut case of a multiple console killing game fatale LA Noire... However nothing in the City of Games comes that easy... 


Across from the table sat the 3 witnesses or suspects ,watching the tall blonde assistant glide from kawfee machine back to the table where she placed the now molten hot plastic cup to my mouth, the kawfee was scolding but the look she gave me was hotter, hmmmh  ,  48 hours of interrogation later (of the suspects not the blond bombshell) , and wearing out the precincts supply of 360 and PS3 pads , the three duhty rats  had all decided to sing from the same hymn sheet , absolutely no one was to blame for the overheating dying consoles , not Rockstar and their game fatale LA Noire , not Sony and not Microsoft deaf to my best interrogation techniques .. damn that 360 pad always runs out of juice... 


This open and shut case had just been blown wide open....again .... there was a console killer on the loose and I was not going to let him/her get away with daylight console murder... not on my watch ..


This case was set to run and run .... but first I needed some quality time with my assistant and some ice .... a lotta ice ... It get`s mighty hot doing detective work ..and....in the heartless City of Games.. in the end ...only love can save ya .. 


duhty rats...


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LA NOIRE the case of the console killing game ..support closed ..game still killing consoles ..evidence gathers

Chapter 3 :T`was the game that did it .....

In last weeks chapter , we left your intrepid Fedora`d investigator infuriated at the indefatigable indifference irradiating from the incisors bared in an act of defiance by the chief monkeys at Sony Microsoft and Rockstar over the LA NOIRE multiple console homicide case they were all alleged suspects in . 


By the power of the independent , for now , interweb new evidence is emerging : and it points to the game NOT to the hardware 


Exhibit A : we can see the suffering of many  victims here for instance is a young chap , whose Xbox 360 has locked up thanks to the alleged console homicidal game LA NOIRE : 

Exhibit B : the following shows the PS3 3.61 update is not to blame , and other games more intensive than LA NOIRE run just fine . The intrepid detectives in this video deserve a medal of honor ( not the game version) , Rockstar you know what you deserve?

Over at the official Rockstar chit about the problems caused ( which actually shuts down to users comments when Rockstar feels like it ) , read the comments from further victims , both 360 and PS3 , and you will see many Belgian consoles died to bring you this information.


And the complete fallacy of Rockstar`s solution to the problem , as there is no way to restart a dead console , let alone reset cache , reinstall the game , set up a new PSN, whoops , offline PSN user , just to see if LA NOIRE kills your console on the next install ! 


Who can stop the Death Star that is LA NOIRE , is there any hope ... against this game Fatale ? 


Is LA Noire responsible for the greatest console homicide case in history ? And Scully ..is this a continuation of the global conspiracy against gamers that the PSN shut down forms part of as uncovered by thegameveda here ? I want to believe.....


Interrogation of the chief suspect continues in the City Of Games that is the Internet justice will be done...as the rightly disgruntled public mob and some very polite Belgian PS3 owners , proverbially  tear Rockstar a new one through the power of the web!.... duhty rats...




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THE SONY HACKAPALOOZA CONTINUES AS MILLIONS SIGN UP TO PSN AGAIN MILLIONS HAVE THEIR DATA STOLEN FROM SONYPICTURES.COM

Thegameveda has been covering the 2011 Sony Hackapoolaza for a while now , this blog entry was supposed to be about PSN and the store coming back on line , but it is time for yet another Star Wars reference ...for the course of Sony Playstation Network Apocalyps3 2011  seems to be loosely (!) following the chapters of the seminal George Lucas Saga ( episodes good and bad ) so 1 day after gamers saw the Sony Empire Strike back we have a Return of the Hack or perhaps Revenge of the Hack (depending on whether you see them as Jedi or Sith )  as thegameveda forewarned in a treatise entitled Begun the Sony PSN resurrection has...


lets see the damage stats over 1 million SonyPictures.com voices have been suddenly silenced with their account details , you know the score name , address , password say dob all taken 


A group called lulzsecurity or LulzSec if you want to be acute,  has done this apparently to show how lax Sony security STILL is , even after the PSN debacle , they even have an official press release here  ,and press actually rang up a little old lady to warn her ..they had all her details . see now that is respectful hacking , the little old lady has now changed her password , but since Sony is so lax with its users security it is only a matter of time before another nice hacking group rings her on her home number to ask her to change her password again..BECAUSE IT IS STORED IN PLAIN TEXT ! This is not a joke anymore .. 


Heads have to roll at Sony , 100 million odd fans including thegameveda have just dared to boot up PSN and the Store again ,if we had doubts about the way Sony was handling our data before , now the whole thing is verging on the ridiculous . 


As publisher foul ups go the current Sony Hackapalooza is a doozy ....


This needs a global holding to account of Sony Execs , and by every government whose country in which they do business , why is Sony being allowed to get away with something on this scale again and again , write your congressmen , in fact why not ask LulzSec for his/her phone number , tell them that you got the info because of the lax security that Sony is still operating 


Security is not a service we should be paying for every Sony account we use , or hotmail or Google or Facebook for that matter , these companies make billions out of us , you would think they could spend a few million , or even $1 on providing security for all personal details. 


It is time that governments demanded this and made it law . Write to yours and demand it . Till then it really is time to applaud the hackers like LulzSec for highlighting these dangers , don't believe me ? Just ask that little old lady who has by now made sure she demands Sony remove all her personal details , and that really is the way to get these global leviathans up to speed , by refusing to let them hold any of your details . 


And in this case the hackers exposing Sony`s weak security fall into the Jedi rather than Sith category ...as Lucas refs go ...




as always apologies and thanks to Mr George Lucas , if you want to motivate him into making the holographic versions of the classics and episode 7,8,9 be sure to fund the effort by procuring  Star Wars on Bluray!  After you finish deleting all your Sonypictures.com data of course! 


And I thought this week would be about dull E3 coverage .. more on that later








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Dastardly diabolical dealings threaten the Deus Ex Human Revolution

Over in the USA ... if things weren't bad enough with the economy failing , earthquakes shaking most of the Eastern seaboard , diabolical retailers are taking onlive codes out of retail boxes . 


Now how cool was it to include an onlive code ... way cool , but a certain well known retailer has taken umbrage with the very generous inclusion of an onlive version of the game in all the PC retail boxes . 


And prior to the EU launch of the game for some bizarre reason Square Enix notified retailers that the PC version was going to be region locked to the UK , to prevent grey sales .... to places which most likely are just going to torrent the game anyway....  This led to cancellations of thousands of pre orders , and confusion reigns on the retail sites like Amazon UK with the game constantly moving in and out of stock as already confused Deus Ex Fans ( there are around 10 different versions of the games plus or minus bonus content) try to work out what is going on 


PC games are NEVER region locked .... this is a mark of respect for people who can spend 10k on a PC , who can stream the game , pirate the game or simply ignore the game in their tens of  millions..... in protest ...


Thegameveda feels for the coders of this great franchise which deserves to be remembered for its gameplay and not all the launch debacles occurring in both the USA and EU thanks to greedy publishers and retailers .... or could it be the long outstretched trendrils of  the Illuminati????? ...again..






check out the different flavours of  Deus Ex Human Revolution 




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iD`s RAGE has PC fans enraged ..and asking is iD old skool or just old hat?

Whilst it is was great seeing Carmack and the iD boys wax lyrical re the oncoming smart phone and tablet gaming revolution , and squeezing free versions of our old favourites into iOS , there was always the worry they took their iD off the prize , the prize being what once drove them to produce the fastest most gib friendly and revolutionary FPS gaming engines . 

the first PC gamer to try to play RAGE on their 10k gaming rig twitpic

Looking at the current cross PC GPU problems with the new iD engine , it is clear that like Crytek`s Crysis 2 before it development of this new IP was focused on consoles first .  Where the major Casual wedge lives . 


Hey I am not complaining I am used to reinstalling , updating drivers , heck even rebuilding my PC just to get to the loading screen of a new PC game , it is part of the fun , but you know when a game is developed 8 years , including one year of alleged testing , it is also a damn insult to PC fans who the likes of Mr Carmack used to champion . 


It is almost as if PC fans are being told  , yes you have a rig to play a game at 5120 by 1600 , but we cannot be bothered to optimise the game for you , or even test it at 2500 by 1600 , oh and forget that we have the game ready for the 720 p res of the Xbox 360 and PS3 so wtf are you complaining about ?


Like Crysis 2 before it Rage should have just launched on Onlive or Gaikai ,  no driver issues , running butterly smooth maxed out whatever your flavour of your OS , CPU and GPU . 


I had Crysis 2 for a month before I could play it without tearing on my gaming rig , compare that with clicking on the GAIKAI version and playing it totally maxed out and instantly without problems.


By concentrating on the phone market iD seem to have lost their edge , I was worried by this last year and now the otherwise excellent RAGE is throwing up teething problems that could have been totally avoided if  iD had been up or down with the Cloud .. come on Mr Carmack throw a demo of RAGE onto GAIKAI and the game up on onlive  and we could be playing your game instead of hacking cfg files .. hey now isn`t that the same thing your PC fans had to do 20 years ago ? the more things change the more things ....


If you can control your RAGE get the PC version now from Game and Zavvi

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Fans breath fire as The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim crashes more PCs than a Flash developer convention

Colour me spoiled but the thing about the $400 million dollar Boby Kotick vehicle  Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 , is that it flies not only runs out of the box on my tiny 12.5 inch Intel HD3000 powered Lenovo X220T at 1366 by 768 , but storms on my gaming pc at 5120 by 1600 , with gun sites even adjusting for the bezel on my monitors. Wheras my favourite game this year Battlefield 3 , is clearly a work in progress on PC , you cry and pray every time you launch that web browser , and sometimes get some gameplay , but nowhere near the silky smooth experience that you get with MW3. I am not talking about the frames per second on screen action here , I am talking about the fact that launching MW3 is akin to queuing up for a movie at a theatre getting your popcorn in , effortlessly finding your seat and enjoying the next 2 to 3 hours with everyone who came with you . And they wonder why it tops charts every year? Now I love Battlefield , but over a decade into playing Battlefield games and even longer playing D.I.C.E. games  , I know to expect Battlefield games never launch without glitches , 3 to 6 months from now the Battlefield 3 experience on PC will be as smooth as it is on the consoles . That is 3 to 6 months for them to catch up with drivers and patches and server mods. Those 3 to 6 months I will get my Battlefield 3 kicks on console.


And now we come to another botched game release : The latest Elder Scrolls RPG , thegameveda has had Skyrim for most of a day , it plays rather nicely on my Lenovo X220T , even on low settings it looks pretty awesome , wait ...why are they speaking so quietly ? Whatever engine is powering the sound , or not powering the sound on my laptop is also responsible for totally killing the game on my gaming desktop pc . Skyrim at random points crashes and locks your PC , so you have to hard reset it . The crash always starts with the sound for the game going crazy and locking in an infinite loop of white noise and beeps.


Graphics wise , the game does not even register resolutions above 2560 by 1600 , yes I am serious !And the Ultra settings for textures do not make them look any more detailed or sharper at 2560 by 1600 than on my ultraportable at 1366 by 768.


Over on the Xbox 360 the textures are so dire Bethesda has told people not to run the game of HDD , now do you know how hot and bothered the 360 gets running games off disc ? And considering we are meant to play for 100s of hours , your 360 will be breathing red rings of fire before you get to see your first Skyrim Dragon  do so ...


So let`s get real here , absolutely no official reviewer picked up on any crash , bug , sound or graphical glitch that renders Skyrim unplayable on PC , and looking less pretty than Morrowind the Xbox version on the Xbox 360.


Over on the sites that matter solutions to every problem but the one you are likely to be experiencing are being discussed....but there is no fix , because the game is a console port and is not completed code. 


If you spent money on this game in it`s present form on the PC , well you probably just finished downloading a 5gb patch , which does not fix the crash to a locked up PC . Believe me I would much rather be playing the game than ranting about it , but I do not blame Bethesda , or DICE for that matter for Battlefield 3 , it would be simply awesome if just once an honest reviewer stood up for consumers and spoke the truth that these games are not fit to launch in their present state , and really you the punter and your 10k gaming rig are given the equivalent respect of a lab rat by the publishers who push the coders who impress the reviewers that make the games industry what it is today...


Fantasy: the  night before Battlefield 3 and Skyrim release on PC they get rave reviews from offical press 
Reality : the night the games release MILLIONS of PC games fans are wasting their money and time trying to get these games to run 


and this happens again and again because we take it!


I just made an hour long video of the first totally Falloutesque escape into the main world of Skyrim , hoping to capture the point , the totally random point where it crashes  , I actually played and recorded around 2 hours , before the dread crash locked up my entire pc , and resetting also erased the gameplay video I made! This is a simple problem , there is something wrong with the sound engine in the game , the way it is either too quiet , directional sound does not work unless you turn people to your left or right side you cannot hear them and then randomly the sound locks into beeping infinitely and your entire PC freezes...


I think it is time thegameveda dusted off some Panzer Dragoon Saga ... now that was an awesome game with Dragons ... or maybe some Redguard , after 15 or so years they must have gotten the bugs out of that one ... no wait there is another hope .. but I beta not say more about that...


If you are Hell bent on getting Skyrim  , hold off or get the PS3 version , trade it in later when the PC version hits £14.95 and they have finished coding it .  Gods I feel for anyone who splashed out on the £129 limited edition ....


still here is a cartoon to watch whilst you wait for another patch to arrive ... or the PC gaming community to come up with their own solutions .. 

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