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A very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to everyone!

He was 92 before he passed away
You gave us generations of video gaming!
R.I.P. Ralph H.Baer! 

Link: http://www.examiner.com/article/ralph-h-baer-father-of-video-games-passes-away-at-92

It's a very well put video compilation of arcade machines in movies!

Arcades In The Movies

I wonder do the carts still work?

I didn't take much photos but a friend did & put on Flicka!
I am the one wearing the Ghostbusters 2 T-shirt!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sincil/sets/72157637161334074/

More photos & videos on facebook!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/222817271066365/?fref=ts

Plus somebody recorded the Jeroen Tel gig  at Eurocon!

Eurocon / Retro Event 2013: Live Act - Jeroen Tel

I should have asked earlier, did you guys manage to hook up?

Yes I did & was a great event!

Me & woody.cool is going to the event!

So I will most likely to meet you there!

Actually I'm going to Eurocon next week & I think this event is incorporated with yours!

So see you soon!

Nolan Bushnell also thinks Nintendo is going the same direction of Atari!

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23995569

Completely fooled me & nintendolife wrote a topic about it!

Link: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/09/weirdness_this_1ds_spoof_is_remarkably_well_done

Here's a picture (no joke!)

Indeed that is a picture 

This is a picture of my reaction to the 1DS announcement!

Here's a picture (no joke!)

My personal fav feature is it still has a 3d camera so 'you transfer the pictures and view the 3d images on a 3ds screen'! Nice one Nintendo offer so much and give so little!

I LOL'd at that fail-dressed-up-as-a-selling-point statement too! 

That looks like a fisher price toy!

A rich man's door wedge?

BBC News writes:

Ubisoft has suffered a security breach and is warning account holders that details have been compromised.

The video games publisher said that user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords had been "illegally accessed", but that subscribers' debit and credit card details remained safe as it did not store them.

The firm said it had 58 million people on its database at the time of attack.

It said it did not believe the attack was related to earlier breaches.

Last year the firm had to release an emergency patch after it discovered a security hole in its Uplay web browser add-on could have allowed cybercriminals to run malware on computers that had installed it.

Then in April it temporarily halted sales of PC video games after hackers discovered a way to download software from its online store without paying and stole a copy of a title it had yet to release.

'Strengthen measures'
"We are recommending all our users change their passwords," the firm said in a statement.

"We also recommend that you change your password on any other website or service where you use the same or a similar password.

"Ubisoft's security teams are exploring all available means to expand and strengthen our security measures in order to better protect our customers. Unfortunately, no company or organisation is completely immune to these kinds of criminal attacks."

France-based Ubisoft is best known for its Assassin's Creed, Just Dance, Splinter Cell and Far Cry franchises.


Ubisoft said it was carrying out a "thorough investigation" into how the breach took place
Gamers buying its titles for PCs are often required to register an account with the firm as an anti-piracy measure, while console owners are encouraged to do so in order to log "achievements" which can be used to unlock bonus content.

The attack comes two years after the biggest video games industry breach to date - a hack attack on Sony's PlayStation network that resulted in millions of subscribers' passwords and credit card details being leaked online.

The firm was later fined £250,000 by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, which criticised the Japanese company for failing to have up-to-date security software.


Here's the link to the story:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23159997