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Merry Christmas, game fans: Both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network are down this morning, apparently due to a denial-of-service attack. The notorious hacking group Lizard Squad -- which already carried out earlier attacks on Microsoft and Sony -- has claimed responsibility on Twitter for these latest outages. While the group's role in all of this remains unconfirmed, it's worth noting that the group threatened last week to take down Xbox Live and PSN, according to Business Insider. And again, Lizard Squad has already proven it can successfully pull off such attacks, not to mention other malicious pranks.

Link:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/25/xbox-live-psn-down/

Baffi anche a Natale

Via:
http://multiplayer.it/notizie/142750-the-order-1886-un-trailer-natalizio-per-the-order-1886.html

Non ci sono i GOTY indie che ti aspetti. Da tempo ormai ritengo di avere una forte dipendenza per i giochi più underground o di nicchia, se vogliamo.

Link:
http://www.giocoindie.it/best-indie-games-2014-selezione-gioco-indie/

L'autore del DSfix s'è visto arrivare questa mail da Dropbox (dove evidentemente hostava il fix):

Hi Dropbox User,

We've received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") from BANDAI NAMCO Games Germany GmbH that the following material is claimed to be infringing:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ddwbdpd3qgm9upk/DSfix23.zip

Accordingly, under Section 512(c)(1)(C) of DMCA, we've removed or disabled access to the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.

As a result of this notice, public sharing on your account has been disabled. We will reinstate your account's public links if you remove the file(s) listed above from your account.

Please be aware that copyright infringement violates our Terms of Service and Copyright Policy, which can be found at:

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Also note that Dropbox has a policy of terminating the accounts of repeat infringers. If you repeatedly use Dropbox to infringe copyrights, your account will be terminated and you will lose access to your files.

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or by sending it to the following address:

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- The Dropbox Team

Fonte (dove si trovano anche diversi mirror del file):
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=957469

[iTunes]

Puntata natalizia per Free Playing, con un episodio carico di extra credits, così saprete cosa vedere sui vostri tablet/smartphone mentre vi allontanate con qualche scusa da cenoni e super riunioni con parenti e amici. Buon festone cenone natalone da Free Playing! [iTunes | Link diretto | Feed RSS | RAW]

L'ALMANACCO DI NATALE

L'#UOMOBIGGIO CONTRO I PENNIVENDOLI CHE SI SVENDONO PER I GADGET
http://www.freeplaying.it/2014/12/20/luomobiggio-contro-i-pennivendoli-che-si-svendono-per-i-gadget/

LA POSTA DEL CUORE DI SIMONE DI NATALE

FREE PLAYING ADDICTION
http://www.freeplaying.it/2014/12/16/email-free-playing-addiction/

Top 5 2014
http://www.freeplaying.it/2014/12/21/email-top-5-2014/

EXTRA CREDITS DI NATALE

#BRUNODINOI

Diego Cajelli, le recensioni simpaticone, e i lecchini nei commenti
http://www.freeplaying.it/2014/12/20/diego-cajelli-le-recensioni-simpaticone-e-i-lecchini-nei-commenti/
LECCHINI, LECCHINI EVERYWHERE

Dredd
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343727/
FATTO DI MESTIERE, MA DI MESTIERE BUONO

South Park S18E10 "#HappyHolograms"
http://www.freeplaying.it/2014/12/12/serie-south-park-s18e10-happyholograms/
MI HA LASCIATO UN PO' SPIAZZATO

Jim Guthrie – One of These Days I'll Get It Right
http://www.freeplaying.it/2014/12/17/music-jim-guthrie-one-of-these-days-ill-get-it-right/
IL NUOVO DISCO DELL'AMICONE JIM GUTHRIE, MA SONO TUTTI REMIX

Black Mirror S01
http://www.freeplaying.it/2014/12/22/serie-black-mirror-fp108-fp122/
VIVA LA SECONDA PUNTATA

#MAESTROMIRCO

Hercules
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267297/
NON È NEANCHE MALE

Dragon Trainer 2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646971/
È UN PO' TIPO AVATAR

L'amore bugiardo - Gone Girl
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/
NON GUARDATELO CON LA DONNA

Assassin's Creed Unity
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/assassins-creed-unity
BELLA PARIGI

Assassin's Creed Unity Companion App
https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/assassins-creed-unity-companion/id896612702
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubisoft.assassin.unity.companion
GUADAGNARE CREDITI NELLA PAUSA CESSO

#SAGGIOSIMONE

Fargo (serie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/
MA CHI È IL REGISTA?

Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3823690/
VIVA LO STAND-UP AMERICANO

Russell Peters: Notorious
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3295244/
NON FA LE BATTUTE SUI CICCIONI

#MITICODAVIDE

The Hobbit Saga
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/
NON C'HA UN CUORE

Takako Minekawa & Dustin Wong - Savage Imagination
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19737-takako-minekawa-dustin-wong-savage-imagination/
L'APPROCCIO ANTI-POP AL POP STESSO

Don Jon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229499/
MASCHI CONTRO FEMMINE

Kiss the Water
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560632/
UN DOCUMENTARIO INTERESSANTE SU UNA PRODUTTRICE DI ESCHE DA PESCA

Calvary
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234003/
IL MURDER MISTERY AL CONTRARIO

PARTECIPANTI DI NATALE

Bruno #BRUNODINOI Barbera (blog, sito, sito, Twitter)
SimoneCognome #SAGGIOSIMONE Andreozzi (blog, tumblr, sito, sito, sito, Twitter)
Davide #MITICODAVIDE Alexandro Fiandra (blog, Steam Curator, YouTube, Twitter)
Mirco #MAESTROMIRCO Pierfederici (blog, sito, Twitter)

ASSENTI DI NATALE

Stefano #UOMOBIGGIO Biggio (podcast, YouTube, Twitter)

TANTI SALUTI E TANTE BELLE COSE

Un saluto anche agli amici che ci hanno seguito in diretta! Scusate se non vi nominiamo uno ad uno, ma ci vuole davvero troppo tempo per recuperarvi... chi c'era comunque sa!

Ricordate di scriverci numerosi in email: i vostri dubbi e le vostre domande troveranno saggia risposta nella posta del cuore di Simone. E non dimenticate di seguite il nostro nuovissimo fantasticissimo forum!

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Babba Natale, madrina della serata:

Diego Armando Maradona, il raffinato calembour postato da Simone su Facebook:

Un ex dipendente di Naughty Dog, Michael Knowland, ha aggiornato il proprio profilo LinkedIn annotando che aveva lavorato a dei "prototipi di teste" per The Last of Us 2.

Fonte:
http://games.hdblog.it/2014/12/22/The-Last-of-Us-2-ex-Naughty-Dog-confermato/

Dragon Ball XENOVERSE is launching on 2.17.2015 on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Steam!

Via:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2q1c6x/dragon_ball_xenoverse_trailer/

Fonte:
http://imgur.com/a/Iytsv?gallery

Via:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2q06tu/the_evolution_of_console_controllers/

Ci scrive l'esimio Cif in email:

Carissimi,
la fine dell'anno porta con sé la voglia di fare bilanci e dare un senso di chiusura ai 365 giorni trascorsi. Parlando di videogames, il 2014 ha visto molti di noi/voi passare alla nuova generazione di console, e quindi, senza andare per le lunghe, vi chiedo una top 5 personale delle cose su cui avete messo le mani sopra durante questo anno, magari con un occhio di riguardo ai giochi usciti proprio nell'ultimo moto di rivoluzione terrestre.

Stay hungry, stay free playing!

In pratica il problema era che nella pagina Wikipedia del #GamerGate c'era una sezione con tutti i nomi dei giornalisti identificati come corrotti, sezione che poteva facilmente diventare una lista di riferimento per mandare minacce, fare doxxing, etc etc, così è stata rimossa.

Un tizio ha scritto a Jimmy Wales, il fondatore di Wikipedia, spiegandogli che questa rimozione l'ha vissuta come una censura, e che stava considerando di smettere di fare donazioni a Wikipedia.

I emailed as well.
Hello Jimmy,
I'll keep this concise. I'm a computer science student, and Wikipedia has gotten me through just about all of my undergrad schooling. I am immensely grateful for it, and as such I donate a meager amount of money at every donation drive. It's the least I can do. I'm very near graduation, and will soon be living off of a software engineer's salary, not student loans. I'd like to start giving substantially to Wikipedia in order to pay that knowledge forward.
Here's the problem: Wikipedia's complete lack of any sort of attempt at neutrality regarding Gamergate is giving me serious ethical qualms about doing so. I don't want to financially support an organization that claims to be a neutral, impartial source of information on all things that then goes on to try to push an agenda and spin a narrative of an author's choosing. And then after the deletion of the Wikia page documenting editor abuse and corruption, I CERTAINLY don't feel comfortable giving money when the founder of the site publicly condones such actions.
I'll still use your site to look up mathematical formulas and listings of TV episodes, but you've lost respect and credibility with me. I won't be donating again until/unless Wikipedia starts to address glaring issues.
Sincerely, [name]

Wales avrebbe risposto (c'è il testo di una email, ma non si sa se sia autentico) ribadendo che l'elenco poteva essere un punto di partenza per malintenzionati, e che #GamerGate non è un movimento, ma un hashtag, di cui si sono appropriati individui che fanno azioni deplorevoli e che hanno irrimediabilmente rovinato qualsiasi intento positivo ci fosse mai stato.

Wales ha consigliato anche, a chi fosse davvero interessato a portare avanti gli scopi "nobili" del #GamerGate (la lotta alla corruzione nel giornalismo videoludico) di mettere in piedi un'organizzazione strutturata, con responsabili, direttori, un consiglio, etc etc.

Come ciliegina sulla torta, Wales ha pure detto che le donazioni non gli fanno né caldo né freddo, e che Wikipedia di base è un progetto no-profit in cui le donazioni sono solo un plus.

Hi [name],
I'm happy to inform you that our current fundraiser is the most successful in our entire history.
But there's something deeper that is wrong with your argument – Wikipedia is not for sale, not to any donors, so even if donations were dropping, that would not mean to me that we should compromise on our principles of quality and neutrality in response to a pressure group.
My point here is not to say that there is nothing wrong with the article – I actually think it needs a fair amount of work. But I want you and others to understand that threatening people is not helpful.
I've recently seen web pages in which people who are – and I don't know how else to put it – vicious assholes – are gathering data to attack the personal lives of volunteers. It is very difficult for me to buy into the notion that gamergate is "really about ethics in journalism" when every single experience I have personally had with it involved pro-gg people insulting, threatening, doxxing, etc.
No, not all pro-gg people. But there's a huge contingent to the extent that for good people – and I respect your letter and assume good faith that you are a good person – the name "gamer gate" is toxic.
Even if 90% of the supporters are good and 10% are bad, the bad are poisoning the message for everyone. That's not an evaluation of right and wrong, just an observation of a clear fact.
You see, a big part of the problem is that #gamergate is not a movement, but a hashtag. And so there is literally no way to have any quality control of any kind. There is no way to see what is or is not a position of gamergate.
I have had several people over the past weeks say to me "It is not about mysogyny." I was prepared to believe that. But discussions usually very quickly move to attacking a female game developer for events surrounding her personal life. That's sick.
The contingent of people who are interested in putting pressure on institutions within game journalism to expose corruption need an actual organization – with a mission statement, with a board of directors, with elected people who represent the movement. Barring that, you should very much expect the media to continue to accurately report that the Gamergate community is associated with online harassment and misogyny. But actually, in fact, it is.
I know that may pain you to hear. You thought you were taking part in a movement that would be about ethics in journalism. A movement that would stand for the rights of all gamers. That would welcome women into the world of gaming and would shame those who would engage in personal attacks on the basis of gender. I admire all of those things.
But #gamergate has been permanently tarnished and highjacked by a handful of people who are not what you would hope.
You might not be the person to lead it. I don't know who is. But I strongly recommend that someone organize a "gamer's union" of sorts, with a real mission statement, with real rules, with real organization and leadership.
Bitching and moaning on a twitter hashtag is getting you nowhere, particularly for the reasons I have outlined in this note.
–Jimmy Wales

Wales è intervenuto anche via Twitter sulla questione, quindi pure se l'email non fosse autentica, la sua posizione comunque è abbastanza chiara:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/545274415349788672[/twitter]

[twitter]https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/545276274231750657[/twitter]

Fonte:
http://www.themarysue.com/jimmy-wales-not-taking-gamergate-crap/

[The Sensational December Machine.]

The Sensational December Machine. A short interactive story about an inventor and her unusual new creation. It features hand-drawn art and text, and dynamic music (which evolves with the story) by Daniel Olsén. We hope you'll snuggle up with this little seasonal, and very three-dimensional, tale in fullscreen mode. Perhaps with some good headphones, and a warm drink by your side.

Link:
http://simogo.com/2014/12/18/the-sensational-december-machine/

Nell'ultimo periodo, ho visto un florilegio di persone e personalità scagliarsi contro Youtuber di vario livello, PR contro giornalisti, giornalisti di fascia media contro quelli di fascia bassa, imbecilli contro stupidi, un bel calderone Dantesco specchio di cosa internet può mostrarti riguardo alla società in cui viviamo. A questo punto mi ci metto anche io, non sono mica l'ultimo degli stronzi, (cit.) no? Credo che un buon 80% dell'astio generato da persone che vivono di Youtube e/o vengono retribuite per parlare di videogiochi ad un pubblico piuttosto generalista, sia generato dall'invidia.

Link:
http://www.dietrologiavideoludica.it/sito/entropia-le-putte/

Si chiamerà Minecraft: Story Mode.

• Minecraft: Story mode will be a narrative-driven video game created by Telltale Games. It will be about Minecraft.
  
• Mojang is collaborating with Telltale and members of the community to make Minecraft: Story Mode as Minecrafty as possible.
  
• The first episode will be released some time in 2015, and will be available on Xbox consoles, PlayStation consoles, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android-based devices.
  
• Minecraft: Story Mode will be released episodically, just like The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, or the recent Tales from the Borderlands, which is another developer-collaboration series between Telltale Games and Gearbox Software.
  
• We're not intending on creating an "official" story for Steve, or explaining the world of Minecraft in detail. It will be a cool game.
  
• The Minecraft 2 thing was a joke. No really. It was a joke.
  

Fonte:
https://mojang.com/announcing-minecraft-story-mode/

Le altre versioni però pare vadano lisce.

Fonte:
http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/12/17/what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-tetris-ps4

Via:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=954394

Ancora è lungi dall'essere completa, ma...

After one year of early access, Elite:Dangerous v1.0 has launched!

Join /r/elitedangerous as we celebrate/freak out/raise pitchforks as appropriate!

What is Elite?

It's a first-person, open-world spaceship combat, trading and exploration game set in a 1:1 scale model of our Milky Way. Fight, trade and explore within tens of thousands of human-inhabited systems, each with their own minor political parties, aligned in three major factions, surrounded by hundreds of billions of unexplored stars.

Multiplayer? One background simulation for all players, stored on central servers. 32-player instances, centred on P2P bubbles around player ships, that merge and intersect as you move around. PVP is possible anywhere, but for me is a very rare occurrence outside of dedicated conflict zones.

The galaxy is shared and affected by all players, and every trade or kill has a micro-effect on the markets and political status of the world. Players can flatten markets, force regime change and take part in dev-controlled story events that will adapt to player behaviour.

Online Only? Singleplayer?

A constant internet connection is required, but you can choose to play completely solo or in private groups. Solo play is not ping dependant, and only requires a low-bandwidth connection. Your character can switch freely between Solo and Online modes.

Payment Model? Microtransactions?

One-time payment, no subscriptions, no cash for credits. Cosmetic microtransactions exist in the form of ship skins and decals. Only availble through http://store.elitedangerous.com

Is the game complete? What's missing?

The game is far from complete. Some important features are yet not implemented, and some are bare-bones implementations of the original goals. In the short term, co-op missions and player wingmen will be coming early next year, along with an a gradual growth of the ship roster from 15 to 30 flyable ships. Improvement to mechanics and balancing will be ongoing. In the longer term, walking around, zero-g activity and atmospheric flight will be added in future years as expansion packs.

This is a long-term project.

Technical Problems ? Some very shaky multiplayer connection issues in recent patches, which have been addressed for some but not all. Launch day will likely face the standard MMO connection issues.

No offline mode, constant connection to the galaxy is required.

Some bugs in dynamic missions, at least in the pre-launch version.

General graphical performance is excellent, and the game runs on pretty low-end hardware.

Link:
https://store.elitedangerous.com/

Fonte:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2pgnq5/elitedangerous_v10_has_been_released/

Ecco il video realizzato per celebrare la cosa:

Via:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2phexb/a_humble_thank_you_50_million_for_charity/

Notizia ufficiale dal sito di Konami:

Ecco anche un bello screenshot con tutte le opzioni grafiche:

L'uscita è prevista per il 18 dicembre, ma lo stesso giorno inizieranno pure i saldi invernali di Steam, quindi capace che costerà anche meno dei 20 dollah previsti.

Link:
http://www.konami.jp/mgs5/gz/en/products/steam.php5

Fonte:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2pjzuk/mgs_ground_zeroes_pc_price_1999/

Ancora insistono con 'sto catorcio. Probabilmente l'oggetto in sé sarà presentato a marzo, alla GDC 2015, dove Valve ha promesso "una massiccia presenza delle Steam Machine". Boh?

Link:
http://www.valvetime.net/threads/steam-client-beta-update-reveals-latest-steam-controller-design.245634/

Via:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2phv6p/latest_steam_controller_design_revealed/

Per una volta EA sembra fare le cose per bene: l'ultima patch aggiunge nuove carriere, vestiti, oggetti, obiettivi, e cheat, tutto gratis.

Sarà il caso di rivedere il parere sul gioco?

Link:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/the-sims-4-updates/

Via:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2piiul/the_sims_4_just_released_a_new_update_with_new/

È stata rivelata qualche giorno fa, in occasione della presentazione di Metal Gear Online.

Link:
http://www.konami.jp/mgs5/tpp/en/story/index.php5