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360 Facebook and Twitter Today, PS3 Integration Incoming (PC World) November 17 @ 5 PM source

PC World - Fire up your Xbox 360 later today and you'll discover your social network just broadened by a factor of two. Microsoft teased Xbox 360 Facebook and Twitter integration at E3 this summer and rolled it out to beta testers several weeks ago, and it's finally available to everyone starting today.

Perfect World 3Q profit rises on higher sales (AP) November 16 @ 11 PM source

AP - Online games maker Perfect World Co. said Monday its profit rose 45 percent in the third quarter on higher sales of expansion packs for existing games.

Review: 'Super Marios' gets multiplayer makeover (AP) November 16 @ 3 PM source

AP - Even before it refined family fun with the Wii, Nintendo was dedicated to creating satisfying multiplayer experiences. Games like "Mario Kart," "Super Smash Bros." and "GoldenEye 007" encouraged everyone to join in, and you missed the real action if you played them alone.

Modded Xbox 360s Jailbroken With 'Un-Ban' Hack? (PC World) November 13 @ 10 PM source

PC World - A hacker eager to reconnect modded Xbox 360s banned by Microsoft in recent days may be on the verge of releasing a workaround. According to 360Mods (by way of DailyTech), user 'c4eva' has shifted gears from developing Lite-on and Hitachi optical drive mods to creating a firmware rev that would allow modded Xbox 360s to bypass Microsoft's online security tests.

'Star Trek Online' to beam gamers to the bridge (AP) November 13 @ 4 PM source

AP - The most iconic setting in "Star Trek" almost didn't make it into the series' online video game.

Xbox Live boots pirate videogame players (AFP) November 13 @ 2 AM source

AFP - Internet classified ad and auction websites were rife Thursday with Xbox 360 consoles modified to play pirated videogames in the wake of the devices being banned from Microsoft's online game community.

Xbox Live will link to Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm (AFP) November 13 @ 1 AM source

AFP - Microsoft said Thursday that its Xbox 360 videogame console will be able to link online starting next week with Twitter and Facebook along with Internet radio star Last.fm.

Banned Xbox 360s Flooding Craigslist, Ebay (PC World) November 12 @ 3 PM source

PC World - Beware of banned Xbox 360s loosed in ballooning numbers on auction sites and distribution lists featuring online classified ads.

Academics hope history in video games spurs interest (Reuters) November 12 @ 1 PM source

Reuters - Portraying Leonardo da Vinci or World War II in a video game is challenging game developers to mix fun with facts while academics hope this growing genre will get players more interested in history.

Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users November 12 @ 11 AM source

jamie writes with a follow-up to our recent discussion of social gaming scams: "Mark Pincus, CEO of the company that brought us Mafia Wars, says: 'I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues right away. I mean, we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar, which was like, I don't know... I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it.'" TechCrunch also ran a interesting tell-all from the CEO of a company specializing in Facebook advertisements, who provided some details on similarly shady operations at the popular social networking site.

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