Steam’s Customer Database Hit, Credit Card and User Information at Risk
Earlier this week, it was announced on SiliconANGLE that Valve’s Steam forums had been defaced and the user database behind them had been stolen; now, it looks like it’s spread further than that and the customer database behind the Steam service itself had been compromised.
A message sent by the head of Valve, Gabe Newell, warned all users to change their passwords and to watch their credit card statements as the database of customer information appeared to have been stolen by the attackers.
“We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums,” wrote Newell in a message displayed on the Steam forums. “This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game …
Monopolies are bad, mmkay? The rising behemoth of Steam
An article over at GAMESbrief came to our attention outlining “Five reasons why Steam will destroy the PC games industry” and while the points are fairly valid, the reasons at the end are basically a litany on why monopolies are bad. These reasons of themselves do not display why steam might destroy the PC games industry.
However, that’s not what this article is about. This article is an attempt to persuade game developers to go with a shotgun approach to their own distribution and avoid signing in exclusively with Steam. The fine points (reasons) why monopolies are very bad for the industry become excellent warnings after the article is read in this fashion. Developers happen to hold the keys to the industry as much as customers—if they all go with Steam and won’t support other channels of distribution to spread it
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Valve, Team Fortress 2, and Hats
Valve is calling it a classless update for Team Fortress 2, but how can something with so many hats have no class? As we all know, the proper hat, and lots of them, marks a true gentleman of distinction. Those mongrels without a hat to call their own deserve only scorn and ridicule.
Oh, and something about a new map. Some kind of mountain missile base. Whatever. Take a look at these.
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