Plates55.com » Gaming http://plates55.com Restart, Reboot, Reinstall Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:01:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 GeoHot Hacked the Sony Playstation 3 http://plates55.com/gaming/%datetime%/ http://plates55.com/gaming/%datetime%/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:47:57 +0000 msutherman http://plates55.com/?p=981 Georze Hotz aka GeoHot infamous father of iPhone jailbreak announced that he hacked the Sony Playstation . GeoHot said he was working from 3 years, 2 months and 11 days in Playstation Project. According to GeoHot he got read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. He also managed to dumps of LV0 and LV1 and the NAND without removing it or a modchip. Means you can flash the NAND without any hardware hacking.

PlayStation_3_HackedThe exploit has not yet been made public because GeoHot feared that Sony can update the firmware or launch a new layer of security to make it unusable. GeoHot also compliment to Sony for making hacking very hard on PS3 gaming console. GeoHot likely to post new updates on his blog, in the coming hours, days, or weeks. Stay tuned with us because lots of other information will be posted here as soon as he finishes.

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]]> http://plates55.com/gaming/%datetime%/feed/ 0 Modern Warfare 2 Most Pirated Game of 2009 http://plates55.com/bittorent/%datetime%/ http://plates55.com/bittorent/%datetime%/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:50:01 +0000 admin http://plates55.com/?p=590 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke records this year as the biggest ever entertainment launch in history. With 4.7 million units sold in the US and UK during the first 24 hours, it pulled in revenues totaling $310 million.

In five days the game’s worldwide sales climbed to $550 million, crushing previous record holders Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (only $394m) and The Dark Knight (just $203.8m).

“In just five days of sell through Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become the largest entertainment launch in history and a pop culture phenomenon,” Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said commenting on the game’s success. This is, of course, reflected in the number of pirated copies being traded on BitTorrent.

With 4.1 million unauthorized downloads of the PC version alone, the game more than doubles the achievement of last year’s ‘winner‘ Spore. Modern Warfare 2 leads both the PC and Xbox 360 lists, by a landslide.

The overall trend across all platforms is that, unlike last year, all of the games are 2009 releases. What makes Modern Warfare 2’s chart-topping even more impressive is that this has been achieved after just two months of availability. We further see that the figures for the most downloaded titles have more than doubled compared to last year, equaling the growth in uTorrent users.

PC games are by far the most downloaded titles, with on average more than three times the number of downloads compared to Xbox 360 and Wii releases. As expected, Mario titles are in high demand on the Wii.

The data for these lists is collected by TorrentFreak from several sources, including reports from all public BitTorrent trackers. All the data is carefully checked and possible inaccuracies are systematically corrected.

PC Game Downloads on BitTorrent in 2009
as of December 27, 2009
# game downloads released
torrentfreak.com
1 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (4,100,000) (Nov. 2009)
2 The Sims 3 (3,200,000) (June. 2009)
3 Prototype (2,350,000) (June. 2009)
4 Need For Speed Shift (2,100,000) (Sept. 2009)
5 Street Fighter IV (1,850,000) (July. 2009)

 

Xbox 360 Game Downloads on BitTorrent in 2009
as of December 27, 2009
# game downloads released
torrentfreak.com
1 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (970,000) (Nov. 2009)
2 Street Fighter IV (840,000) (July. 2009)
3 Prototype (810,000) (Feb. 2009)
4 Dirt 2 (790,000) (Sept. 2009)
5 UFC 2009 Undisputed (720,000) (Mar. 2009)

 

Wii Game Downloads on BitTorrent in 2009
as of December 27, 2009
# game downloads released
torrentfreak.com
1 New Super Mario Bros. (1,150,000) (Nov. 2009)
2 Punch-Out!! (950,000) (May. 2009)
3 Wii Sports Resort (920,000) (July. 2009)
4 The House of the Dead: Overkill (860,000) (Feb. 2009)
5 Mario Power Tennis (830,000) (Mar. 2009)

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]]> http://plates55.com/bittorent/%datetime%/feed/ 0 GameStop Swoons As Walmart Chops Video Game Prices http://plates55.com/gaming/%datetime%/ http://plates55.com/gaming/%datetime%/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:45:57 +0000 jplates http://plates55.com/?p=253 GameStop (GME) shares are trading lower after Walmart (WMT) this morning announced price cuts on many video games. Walmart also unveiled a plan to offer $50 gift card to customers who buy a $199 Nintendo Wii.

Walmart said it will discount the top 25 video games by 15-20 percent through December 24. The Nintendo gift card offer starts December 5 and runs through December 12.

A quick check of Amazon.com (AMZN) finds that the online retail giant–which over the last few weeks has been engaged in a price war that has included books and DVDs–has matched some of the cuts by Walmart, and in at least one case, has undercut Walmart.

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