I tried to explain Duke Nukem Forever to my girlfriend. She couldn’t understand why people had been waiting for the game for 15 years…and then, neither could I.

News Blips:

Scotland Yard is investigating a LulzSec hacker about his relationship to the PlayStation Network breach. London’s Metropolitan Police Service arrested a 19-year-old man with links to the band of hackers and has stated that they will search him “for any Sony data.” Lulz Security -- whose motto is “lulzing at your security” -- sprang up in the wake of the PSN outage. The group has taken credit for taking down Minecraft and EVE Online as well as CIA.gov and the Serious Organized Crime Agency website. It doesn’t really surprise me that the Sony hack would be related to LulzSec, but this whole chain of events seems insane when you remember that George Hotz -- the man who Sony sued which riled up the hacker community -- only cracked open the PS3 in the first place because the manufacturer removed the “Other OS” option from their console.

Gaikai executive Phil Harrison says that Apple could be the video-game industry in 10 years. The former Sony director claimed that if Apple continues growing unrestrained that the company would be synonymous with video games. “The speed at which Apple sold 15 million iPads is phenomenal,” Harrison said in an interview with Edge. “And the number one activity on an iPad, according to some reports, is games, and I think that will only continue.” Among some forward-thinking gamers, it is a popular notion that Apple will turn the iPad/Apple TV combination into a Wii U-like console. That would be fine with me, but I’d feel sorry for all the button manufacturers who would go out of business.

Peggle is now available for Android, and it’s free for today. Amazon has obviously made some sort of deal with PopCap Games, as Peggle makes it three Android games that are exclusive to Amazon’s Appstore. As with Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle has debuted as the online retailer’s free app of the day. Starting tomorrow, the game will cost $2.99. Of course, like with PVZ, Amazon is likely to keep the game marked down to $1.50 for quite some time. I’ve played the game, and yes, it was the primary cause for my procrastination today. 

Microsoft states that Xbox Live has not been hacked. An Xbox forums user asked Microsoft about reports that information had been garnered from Xbox Live. Here was Microsoft’s official response: “This group appears to have posted a list of thousands of potential email addresses and passwords, and encouraged users to try them across various online sites like Xbox LIVE in the event one of the users happens to use the same password and email address combination. At this time we do not have any evidence Xbox LIVE has been compromised. However we take the security of our service seriously and work on an ongoing basis to improve it against evolving threats.”

Basically, email and passwords have been lifted from Sony and other services, and many people use the same password for all of their logins. Worried you may be on that list? First, go change your passwords. Second, search this online database of the 62,000 email addresses that LulzSec has released. I was on there, but thankfully they blocked out part of my password. Who could figure out what was missing from “012345****”!

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