Thanks for the info, thankfully I have only ever bought the pre-paid points cards so there's no danger of them accessing my bank details. I'll give MS a ring in the morning.

This whole thing is rather odd here. When you go on the FUT web app, there's constantly been things about not giving this info out, not believing this type of email. But when you see some people saying I haven't been on Live in X amount of months and I don't have Fifa, it does make you wonder what exactly is going on. I can't understand how people can just gain an email address and password without hacking something, it baffles me.

Quote Roddy B="Roddy B"This whole thing is rather odd here. When you go on the FUT web app, there's constantly been things about not giving this info out, not believing this type of email. But when you see some people saying I haven't been on Live in X amount of months and I don't have Fifa, it does make you wonder what exactly is going on. I can't understand how people can just gain an email address and password without hacking something, it baffles me.'" There is definitely some hacking going on somewhere. I know about the importance of PC security and haven't given my password to anybody, or used the same password anywhere else. Gametrailers talk about it very briefly here for anyone interested, about 30:30 into the video: www.gametrailers.com/video/episo ... lls/725542

Quote Roddy B="Roddy B"This whole thing is rather odd here. When you go on the FUT web app, there's constantly been things about not giving this info out, not believing this type of email. But when you see some people saying I haven't been on Live in X amount of months and I don't have Fifa, it does make you wonder what exactly is going on. I can't understand how people can just gain an email address and password without hacking something, it baffles me.'" There is definitely some hacking going on somewhere. I know about the importance of PC security and haven't given my password to anybody, or used the same password anywhere else. Gametrailers talk about it very briefly here for anyone interested, about 30:30 into the video: www.gametrailers.com/video/episo ... lls/725542

Yes, breaking into peoples live accounts that are attached to Xbox accounts no doubt. It won't be a hack as such, but more guessing the no doubt simple password (or luring people into giving it up) or more likely answering the usually very easy secret question.

Say what you want about the security issues the PS3 had, but at least Sony were quick to spot where the breach occurred, acknowledged their mistakes and were quick to put a stop to it.
Microsoft continue to bury their heads in the sand and just deny the whole thing while their users continue to be victimised.

It happens on PS3 just as much, like the hardware failures always did as well. The thing with the PSN issue was that it was the network itself that was hacked. It lead to it's users having their details exposed and could have had their identity stolen, never mind their gaming account. On Live they are getting the login details from somewhere else, not Xbox Live itself, so it's hard to see what Microsoft can do about it. They always refund stolen money/points if they can see a valid unauthorised access has occurred. Microsoft's customer service on the Xbox has been great.

Enough of this hacking talk!

I've gone out and bought Dead Island and AC:R earlier. Had a quick half hour on DI, seemed okay but nothing much happend early on. Just strolled around on the beach. Installing AC:R, I've had the previous games and loved them so can't wait to get into this!

Just reading the rumours about the coming games conferences and they seem to be suggesting that the next xbox console will be a tablet rather than a traditional box console.

All sounds very gimmicky and Nintendo-ish to me. I just can not see how they would fit enough tech into a tablet to make it sufficiently powerful? And would it be a tablet plus a controller, or is the tablet used as the controller as well? Or even tablet plus kinnect and no controller? The mind boggles. At this stage I hope it's not true.

I saw a concept photo of a tablet PC that was shown off at the CES that's going on right now, so the technology is certainly possible/plausible. But, like you, I don't like the sound of it.
The Wii-U looks absolutely ridiculous imo and definitely won't be getting one. I much prefer my consoles in the traditional sense, something that lets me play using a nice, big flatscreen tv with a regular controller in my hands.

Digitally distributed content is fine as it is, there's no way it should be replacing fully boxed DVD/Blu-Ray games.

Dead Island is only really worth getting for the co-op/multiplayer. The campaign is pretty gash. Revelations starts off a bit slow but once you get some of the side quests out of the way the story makes a lot more sense, and I have to say I enjoyed the last 2 or 3 hours more than the other 2 Ezio games. I do hope though they don't continue to produce the AC games every year as I think the AC series would be even better with an extra year of development. Oh and the latest update is bugged, some of your achievments won't work.

As for the tablet thing. That should not be allowed to happen.

Not really been a fan of my ps3, I usually just use it for the odd game of Fifa with my mates. But feel like a reborn kid again as I forced myself to open up my copy of uncharted and sit and play it. Loving it. Going to buy number 2 and 3 once I complete this one.