Oops! Motorola sold refurbished Xooms without deleting previous owners’ data

Usually, when passwords and personal information are exposed, it’s because someone hacked a company’s not-so-secure system. Motorola, however, managed to put people’s info at risk without such malfeasance when it failed to wipe the memory of a batch of refurbished [...]

Sonic Generations pre-orders exceed all previous Sonic titles

Sega has announced that Sonic Generations is breaking pre-order records. Specifically, Generations has officially “exceeded all previous pre-order records from the 20-year Sonic catalog, making it the most anticipated title in Sonic the Hedgehog’s iconic history.” For what it’s worth, [...]

Muzyka: BioWare to throw previous Dragon Age games into a blender for next title

Dragon Age 3 is going to blend the best features of Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2, BioWare CEO Ray Muzyka told PC Gamer at Gamescom. After Dragon Age 2‘s inconclusive, varied review scores, BioWare is focused on making [...]

EA plans Need for Speed Undercover, Tetris for BlackBerry PlayBook launch

EA has announced that it will have both Need for Speed Undercover and Tetris available to play on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet as soon as it launches this spring. Both titles are currently available on iOS, and considering the success [...]

PS Plus users to get free download of Stacking, Killzone 3 demo

February’s list of PS Plus goodies has been published on the PlayStation Blog, and there are some real doozies. First up is a free copy of Double Fine’s latest, Stacking, which will be available to PS Plus subscribers on its [...]

THQ highlights 1.2m uDraw units in Q3 earnings; wants more uDraw, less kids movie-based games

While a large slate of AAA titles is expected from THQ’s Core Games unit in its Q4 2011 and 2012 fiscal periods, its Q3 2011 financial results are all about the less high-profile Kids, Family and Casual Business which had [...]