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Reuters reports that Target is paying banks and credit unions back for fraudulent charges and costs related to reissue of debit and credit cards, regarding the company’s 2013 data breach.

On the tail end of Steam’s Exploration Sale comes the GOG.com Winter Sale. It began yesterday and will continue until December 13th.

In what sounds more like the central conceit of a Philip K. Dick novel, the San Fernando Valley City Council has requested that the City Attorney’s Office investigate the merit of a bizarre approach to fighting prostitution.

Just Cause 3 released on Tuesday, returning protagonist Rico Rodriguez to the place of his birth in order to blow a bunch of things up for freedom. Unfortunately, many players are experiencing virtual sabotage in their efforts that has nothing to do with the evil Medici dictator’s regime.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an official complaint with the Federal Trade Commission accusing Google of collecting personal information about children.

After eleven years, the FBI’s efforts to conceal its warrantless perusal of private citizens’ internet data have finally been exposed.

Last week, we reported on the massive security breach of VTech Toys that left almost five million parents and nearly a quarter million children’s info exposed online. The story was disturbing enough, but new revelations paint a picture even more dire.

Gamers are trying to achieve Hideo Kojima’s dream of global nuclear disarmament — in Metal Gear Solid V.

Stepping into the world of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has a certain gravity. For those who have been following the decorated franchise since its NES inception, I can imagine a sense of homecoming. Still, this is not the MGS title of prior generations.

On Friday, children’s electronic toy manufacturer VTech announced in a press release that their servers had been penetrated in an SQL injection attack on their Learning Lodge app store database.

Security experts from cyber intel firm iSight have exposed new — and extremely sophisticated — cash register point of sale malware.

Indie developer Twisted is getting a lot of attention in the wake of it’s Monday announcement. They’re bringing PS4 Remote Play to the PC, courtesy of their brand new app.

Just in time for Thanksgiving binges, Steam has launched the Exploration Sale, going from now through December 1st.

They’d been hiding their secret pain for years. Instead of withering beneath the leering gaze of their presumed demographic, they resolutely stiffened their trembling lips and marched forward, spine-straight, regal and determined like true survivors. On November 19, they proclaimed

Where Koei Tecmo backed down, consumers and distributors are stepping forward. Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 will in fact be available in the US and UK, courtesy of Play-Asia — and that’s where things just got interesting. It began with our

Payday 2 developer Overkill has apologized for its unpopular new microtransactions policy in a Steam community post by Almir Listo that manages to wring its hands just enough to deflect attention from the fact that nothing has actually changed. Listo apologizes for

Dell has compromised their customers’ security by installing a vulnerability in their own computers.

In a dubious victory for the moral outrage police, Koei Tecmo has decided not to bring their newest titillating entry in the Dead Or Alive Xtreme volleyball series to Western shores. The company has decided it just isn’t worth the expected criticism from social justice warriors. The thing is, they’re probably right.

Last weekend, Activision Blizzard gave the peasantry a large a glimpse of their upcoming shooter/MOBA hybrid Overwatch. Against all odds on these preview events, it seems to have gone off without a hitch.

Star Wars Battlefront is a game reminiscent of the era before multiplayer games became weighed down by extraneous features and superfluous content. While it lacks a lot of the gilding we’ve come to expect from competitive shooters, this focus on the core experience had paid off in spades.

Wired published an article by Zak McClendon arguing that Fallout 4’s expansive list of bugs were actually features. While I can respect Zak’s perspective and industry experience, I think the argument he makes is as deeply flawed as the development philosophy he defends.

For a game about the gradual rebuilding of society after its cataclysmic end, Fallout 4 manages to be primitive and unfinished in all the wrong ways.

Fallout 4 just blew the vault door wide open with the biggest entertainment launch in any medium this year.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. is trying to convince Congress that the right way to fight crime is to eliminate privacy altogether. It’s not a new argument, but it has all of the staying power that bad ideas from powerful people tend to have.

Green Man Gaming is going to start telling you exactly what you’ll get for your money, after being called out on grey market business practices by the Game Deals subreddit.

Shortly after reporting on the mysterious labeling of reviews as “pre-release”, someone has taken an economy-sized barrel of bleach to Steam’s Batman: Arkham Knight page. The “pre-release review” tags have vanished into the darkness, and I’m left wondering how it all happened.

Assassins Creed Syndicate is a game without purpose. It abandons the self-serious tone of previous titles, but in doing so also loses much of its intensity. Despite a few promising developments, this franchise continues to evoke a sense of emptiness and exhaustion.

The Advertising Standards Agency is taking Valve to task for its “misleading” discount of Grand Theft Auto V during its Summer Sale in June.

GAME, the UK’s dominant electronic entertainment retailer, is canceling customer presales of the Fallout 4: Pip-Boy Edition.

Last week we reported on the investigation by Senators Chuck Grassley and Patrick Leahy into potential IRS abuse of “StingRay” cell site simulation devices. Now the House of Representatives is getting in on the action.

Treyarch Studios has announced in a community post on their official website that it will be incorporating modding and mapping tools for Call of Duty: Black Ops III some time after the game’s launch on November 6th.

In their latest quarterly report, Activision Blizzard reported the lowest World of Warcraft subscriber count in nearly a decade. Now, they will no longer be reporting subscriber numbers at all.

Rock Band 4 slid on stage on October 6th to the wild cheers of fans and critics alike. Most notable among its features was the inclusion of all previously purchased songs from past games’ libraries, totaling over 1700 additional tracks for the game. At least, that was the pitch.

Activision Blizzard is purchasing Candy Crush Saga developer King for an eye-watering 5.9 billion dollars. If you think that’s a ridiculous sum, remember that we’re talking about a pretty ridiculous property.

Less than a month after the launch of the Metal Gear Online multiplayer component for Metal Gear Solid V — and still months away from the PC multiplayer launch — Konami has reportedly shut down the MGO-focused Konami Los Angeles Studio.

Star Trek returns to television in January 2017, just after the 50th anniversary of its original debut.