Blizzard Entertainment has informed gamers regarding a security breach in its gaming service, Battle.net.
The video game developer and publisher has notified players of World of Warcraft and Diablo III that hackers accessed email addresses and hashed passwords, but clarified that they do not contain financial information. Now it urges users to update their accounts and modify passwords.
According to Blizzard’s post on Battle.net, hackers infiltrated its North American servers, which cover …

Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies has crept inside the Google Play Store during the weekend to thrill gaming enthusiasts who use mobile devices running on the Android operating system (OS).
The first-person shooter (FPS) video game, and winner of Apple’s Silver Award on iOS, comes with three maps: Ascension, Call of the Dead and Kino Der Toten. It features 50 levels of shooting in Deep-Ops Arcade mode.
The only main hindrance is its exclusivity to owners of a few Android-running Sony devices, …

Diablo 3 has gathered ten million registered users since its release a few months earlier.
Diablo 3 is a swords and spells game that entices players who love to play heroes and fight a bunch of mystic enemies.
Since its release in May, the video game has already assembled ten million players and now brags that it has gained more users than its in-house rival: World of Warcraft.
At the same time, more than one million World of Warcraft users dropped out during the last three months, which …

Authorities in Japan have started looking into the PS Vita overheating problem.
According to Wired, 31 cases of the gaming console overheating on owners have now been recorded.
A majority of those cases have been reported in Japan with 21 out of the total being owners of PS Vita overheating units located in the

A 40-hour-straight Diablo III gaming binge has proven deadly for a Taiwanese teenager.
According to the Australian Associated Press, the teen – who was only identified as Chuang – died after playing the popular Diablo III game for a full week’s worth of work without even eating.
At around noon on July 13, Chuang reportedly reserved a private gaming room at a café in Tainan, Taiwan to play Diablo III.
Chuang then proceeded to play for nearly two days straight foregoing meals and …

Battlefield 4 Beta has arrived but Battlefield 3 still has a long way to go, according to DICE, the game’s developer, in a statement published for fans of the award-winning series.
EA, the official distributor of the Battlefield franchise, today announced that gamers who will pre-order Medal of Honor Warfighter will have exclusive access to Battlefield 4 Beta, which will arrive in autumn next year.
After the official announcement, some Battlefield 3: BF3 fans were anxious it will indicate …

Microsoft used the Comic-Con at San Diego to launch its Xbox 360 Limited Edition Halo 4 package.
The whole pack will set you back $399 bundle and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The online retailer will ship the units starting Nov. 6 this year, the same day Halo 4 will hit US store shelves.
The Xbox 360 Limited Edition Halo 4 gaming console bundle comes with a custom-made chassis with 320 GB of storage space, built-in Wi-Fi and two exclusive Halo 4 game controllers. It adds a wired …

Verizon Wireless has unveiled a subscription-based gaming service for Android devices that will offer unlimited monthly access to several mobile games at $5.99.
The U.S. telecoms carrier assured subscribers access to over a hundred smartphone games and over 50 made-for-tablet games, which include titles such as Doodle God, Fruit Ninja, and World of Goo. On-demand gaming provider Exent will provide games for the Verizon’s new gaming service: GameTanium.
GameTanium is now available on Verizon …

Only hours after launching GameCircle for its Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon set into motion its Game Connect service.
The world’s largest online retailer launched its new games service to provide customers with a novel array of free-to-play and massively multiplayer online (MMO) games on its online games store. It also gives game developers the ability to carry out “simple and secure” in-app purchases, which allows gamers to buy premium items or other apps within a game.
Game Connect …

Rovio has announced that its record-breaking Angry Birds series will swoop down from PCs and mobile phones to gaming consoles this year.
The Finnish game maker will release Angry Birds Trilogy, a collector’s edition of the franchise’s first three titles, to the Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Nintendo 3DS.
There have been rumours of such an edition for some time now, but makers of the game Rovio announced it today on the Angry Birds Twitter page in a tweet.
A sneak peek of …