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Facebook Wins $873 Million From Spammer

It’s a lot of money, an awful lot of money. Facebook is happy to win an $873 million judgment against spammer Adam Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital, for delivering over four million spam messages to the “walls” of Facebook users. It’s the largest award yet against a spammer.

Allegedly Guerbuez, from Montreal, Canada (his company is registered in Panama) was able to achieve his ends by stealing Facebook logon details with phishing messages and creating an army of botnets to post messages so they appeared to come from friends, according to Information Week.  Read more...

Ubisoft Acquires Hybride

Ubisoft Acquires Hybride

Games creation company Ubisoft has announced that it’s acquired visual effects company Hybride Technologies, the Canadian company that added visual effects to movies like 300, Sin City and the Spy Kids series.

Ubisoft plans to share technology to up the quality of effects for games and, through Hybride, to hopefully brings its intellectual properties to the screen.

Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft’s CEO, said:

“The acquisition of Hybride falls directly into the strategy that has already led us to open in digital creation studio in Montreal and to acquire the Tom Clancy brand for video games and ancillary products. The exception quality of the team at Hybride and the expertise of our Ubisoft teams will allow us to create one of the best 3D animation studios in the animation industry.”

SanDisk Debuts DRM-Free Sansa Sessions

SanDisk has announced a new program called Sansa Sessions to promote DRM-free music—and its new Sansa Fuze music players—by offering tracks from more than 50 new and emerging artists in DRM-free format…on microSD cards. For a limited time, customers who purchase the 8 GB Sansa Fuse will also receive a promotional offer they can redeem for the Sansa Sessions music sampler pre-loaded on a microSD card.  Read more...

Oz Bringing Social Sites to Mobile Phones

Privately-held Oz Communications of Montreal has announced Oz Mobile Social Networking, a new wireless messaging product which will enable mobile phone users to access social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube in a way which “mirrors the PC-based experience.” Oz plans to offer the system to mobile network operators and handset manufacturers as a way to let the mobile phone industry tap into the popularity of social networking and community-based Web sites…and, of course, drive revenue through sales of handsets and data transfer services.  Read more...

Ubisoft Gets Lost Gaming License

Ubisoft and Touchstone Television today announced plans to develop and publish a video game based on the popular television series Lost. The game will debut sometime in 2007 for home and portable consoles as well as the PC.

The game will be developed by Ubisoft’s Montreal studio. No other details were released.

“Many of us on Lost have been hardcore gamers for years and the chance to work with Ubisoft, a company behind some of our favorite titles, has excited us to no end,” said Lost executive producer Bryan Burk, in a statement. “With the ability to tell new interactive stories within the Lost universe, we’re giddy to be developing a game that, once completed, will be as engaging and fun to play as it is to create.”  Read more...

EA Gives Us New Army of Two Details

Electronic Arts yesterday revealed more details about its upcoming, highly anticipated action title Army of Two for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next generation gaming systems. Army of Two is currently set to storm gaming consoles in 2007.

Army of Two, said EA, is being developed at their

Ubisoft Announces Assassin’s Creed

Montreal video game maker Ubisoft announced today that its developing a wholly original video game franchise under the name Assassin’s Creed or the Playstation 3.

The first game in the Assassin’s Creed series will be set in the year 1191 AD, during the Third Crusade. Players will take on the role of Altair and will have the power to “throw their immediate environment into chaos” and influence historical evens. The game will be shown at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles and will be released to consumer in 2007. Ubisoft is describing the game as an “epic experience,” offering new forms of play, superb graphics, and an engrossing storyline.  Read more...

ATI Introduces Mobility Radeon 9800

Based on core technology from the award-winning RADEON X800, MOBILITY RADEON 9800 is a powerhouse visual processor that blends the best of the desktop and mobile graphics world, to the ultimatebenefit of the user. MOBILITY RADEON 9800 is available from Dell on the Inspiron XPS in North America and the Inspiron 9100 in Europe.

“Thanks to the new Mobility RADEON 9800, the Dell Inspiron XPS is the first laptop in the world with the power to run the Splinter Cell 3 E3 Weather demo at above 30 fps.” said Dany Lepage, Splinter Cell 3 lead programmer at Ubisoft’s Montreal studio. “The strong performance of the Mobility RADEON 9800, with antialiasing and the widescreen display of the Inspiron XPS, should allow players to experience Splinter Cell 3 in the best possible conditions.”

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Splinter Cell 3 Announced

From the press release:

“Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, today announced that Ubisoft’s Montreal studio is currently developing Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® 3 (Working Title), the next installment in the now-legendary Splinter Cell® franchise. The Splinter Cell titles have consistently received some of industry’s highest-ever review scores and most prestigious awards, and have sold, cumulatively, more than 6 million copies worldwide. Splinter Cell 3 will be shown for the first time ever in a theater-style demo at Ubisoft’s E3 booth – #1046 in the South Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center, and is scheduled for a PC launch in late 2004. Details on other platforms will be forthcoming.  Read more...

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