Master Chief said goodbye to his parents last November when Halo: Reach served as Bungie’s swan song. After months waiting to hear what exactly the future of Halo would be after its original creators moved on, this year’s E3 finally brought fans the news they’d been waiting for.
(More on TIME.com: The Halo Trinity)
Microsoft is …
It looks like we may get a peek at Microsoft’s Xbox 360 follow-up when E3 2012 rolls around next June. That would put the Xbox “720” (or whatever—let’s just hope not “You,” We,” or “Us”) squarely in competition with Nintendo’s Wii U rollout, if rumors about Nintendo’s spring-summer launch timeframe for it’s own next-gen console prove …
Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn’t help that — the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn’t stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad. All his email, calendar, address book, and work documents were free for the taking. Oh, yeah. He had the iPad …
Pandora filed for their initial public offering yesterday, set initially at $16 per share. Upon opening today, its value climbed briefly up to $25, and has since leveled off to around $23.
Although the internet-radio company is expecting $250 million in revenue this year, it’s still operating at a loss — as we’ve
Bad news, you guys. Or maybe just “news” if you don’t care all that much. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has let it be known that the upcoming Wii U console—despite its ability to use optical discs that are the same storage capacity as standard Blu-ray discs—won’t actually be able to play movies formatted for DVD or …
Hacker group LulzSec’s arm has grown long indeed: The group just kicked three online gaming site and one game news site to the curb. We’re talking indie hit Minecraft, sci-fi MMORPG EVE Online and real-time strategy hit League of Legends.
(More on TIME.com: Memorable Moments in Hacking History)
As I’m typing this, game news site …
There are two sides to Nintendo’s Wii U, as I discovered after spending nearly an hour with the upcoming home gaming system at E3 last week. On one hand, it’s another platform for gimmicky, silly fun, just like the original Wii. On the other, it’s a practical hardware upgrade that wants to be more capable than its console …
Google’s doing it, Amazon’s doing it, Apple will be doing it very soon now. Everyone’s putting their music in the cloud. Clouds are, it would seem, where it’s at. Indeed clouds are so happening that perhaps you might prefer to roll your own rather than use someone else’s.
Here’s one way of doing that.
Milwaukee developer John Mills …
Last week we reported that Citigroup was the latest company to suffer a serious security breach when over 200,000 names, emails and account numbers were compromised by hackers. To add insult to injury, the attack presumably happened sometime in early May, indicating that it took nearly three weeks until news of the attacks was actually …
A juror who used Facebook to contact the defendant in a drugs case now faces a possible jail term. The story begins last year, when Jamie Sewart was in court to answer drugs charges in the U.K. city of Manchester.
Jury member Joanne Fraill found Sewart on Facebook and started sending her messages, including behind-the-scenes details …
The hacker collective calling itself “Anonymous” has promised some sort of action against the Federal Reserve today, according to the above video (posted to YouTube) which is apparently from members of Anonymous.
The group is calling its impending action “Operating Empire State Rebellion.”
The entirety of the text presented in the …
Now the combo publisher-developer behind games Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and upcoming monster-roleplaying followup Skyrim has been hacked. Don’t take my word for it, take theirs. Bethesda Softworks just admitted the breach in an official blog post, explaining that an unidentified group of hackers snuck in and had its way with …
