A player of the popular MMO Runes of Magic has hacked the game's databases, made demands of its German operators and is effectively holding the personal details of its users hostage.
In a fit of indignant rage, user augustus87 apparently took it upon himself to attack the servers of the game's Western operator (it was created in Taiwan), Frogster. Having claimed to have access to the account names and passwords of 3.5 million users, he is threatening to release this information gradually to the public unless his demands are met.
EA just hosted its quarterly financial conference call, and its executives have been asked to comment about the recent price hikes for games.
Today, Electronic Arts announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2025, alongside the full year.
Split Fiction has sold nearly 4 million copies, and the next battlefield is confirmed for a release by March 2026 with a reveal this Summer.
In addition to the roughly 100 job cuts IGN reported earlier today at Respawn Entertainment, EA has made wider cuts across its organization today, impacting around 300 individuals total including those already reported at Respawn.
Absolutely insane. Man I'm hope they land on their feet EA needs to get the shit together badly....
This is why this industry has slow releases and none compelling games.
Why would anyone willingly work in the VG industry or specifically for one of these globocorp organizations that put you in constant fear of losing your livelihood based on terrible choices made by idiotic management, not the people with talent making the actual games?
yay!!! lets support hackers even more!! /s
Hans Gruber!
I blame Geohot!
I've been waiting for this moment... THE MOMENT HACKERS BECOME A NEW FORM OF TERRORIST!.
*Face Palm*
Holding hostage letters and numbers now are we? What a low life. Oops shouldn't have said that now he is going to take hostage my N4G account and demand a apology letter.