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We discovered this morning that our Twitter account has been hacked. It’s the nasty “something bad has been said about you” hack that we, honestly, hadn’t been aware of before this. Worse, the DM had come from a trusted source that might actually send us this kind of tweet. ‘Nuff said.

It doesn’t seem that the application that wanted to take control of the account was successful. The page that came said as much. Despite that, the scammers seemed to have gotten access anyway, as two tweets, one overnight and one this morning, were sent out with scam links. We’ve deleted them, but in case you do see them DO NOT CLICK ON THESE TWEETS OR THEIR LINKS!

If you do, follow the instructions below to secure your Twitter account and please help any others that may have also become infected. For obvious reasons, this is a very virulent infection that passes like wildfire through the Twitter social network.

FIX:
1. Change your account password.
2. Revoke access to any unknown applications, especially recent ones.
3. Make sure your new password gets updated everywhere that you use twitter.

Very sorry for the inconvenience.

Telltale Games has announced a whole bunch of iOS goodness in the form of new episodes of Law & Order: Legacy and Jurassic Park, as well as a New Year’s sale at the iTunes App Store.
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iGame Radio will be stalking the hallways of Moscone West this year at Macworld|iWorld 2012 as we seek out new and interesting games and check in with our old favorites appearing at the show. We’ll also be hosting the 2nd Annual iGame Radio Gamers Meetup at the show as well.

We’ve already been checking out who is going to attend the show and who isn’t, and the shift over the years is pretty surprising. Years ago, Macworld was known for its gaming pavilion, at which most major Mac gaming publishers and developers would attend. Times have changed, and now what we are seeing is iOS game developers in small booths, showing off their latest creations. Since Apple’s decision to leave Macworld, the annual convention has been struggling to survive and find a new niche to cater to. What you find this year might be characterized as more like SXSW for the Mac elite.

Head Editor Omaha Sternberg will be there, grabbing interviews, posting about new games, and getting images to us for the site. She’ll also be hosting the Gamers’ Meetup that will be held on Thursday, January 26th, starting at 5:30pm. If you’ll be at Macworld you can join us in the 2nd Floor lobby of Moscone West.

There’s going to be tons to do at Macworld, so make sure to check out the 2012 Hess Memorial Macworld-iWorld Events List as well so you don’t miss out.

Here’s another reason to put off that hardware upgrade: Gaming hardware site Guru3d reports that Ubisoft’s latest Digital Rights Management scheme (DRM) counts hardware upgrades toward the 3 activation limit Ubisoft imposes on game installations. The annoying “feature” was discovered while swapping out video cards during performance testing.
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Today is SOPA/PIPA Blackout Day. On this day, numerous websites are protesting two bills before Congress that, if passed, will drastically effect the way we would interact on the Internet. Most are protesting by “blacking out” the services of their site, via a number of means, many very clever.

iGame Radio will not be doing that because we feel that the best way to make a statement is to inform the public as much as possible, and encourage them to take a stand and communicate it to their representatives. Kotaku has done a better job of explaining this than we could, so we’ll defer to them and let you read their explanation instead.

So many other sites have posted about SOPA and PIPA that iGame Radio feels no need to duplicate their efforts. Instead, we’d rather aggregate those efforts into one handy place so that you can make your decisions and plan your actions.

Full texts of the bills
SOPA
PIPA

Some excellent sites that give you the basic rundown on what SOPA and PIPA are, how they may impact the Internet, and why you should be concerned
Reddit
Gizmodo
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mashable
Forbes

Who has taken a stand on SOPA/PIPA
White House
Original co-sponsors of PIPA
Original co-sponsors of SOPA
Protesters of SOPA/PIPA
General supporters of SOPA/PIPA

What is the OPEN Act? Should you support it?
OPEN Act
Forbes details of OPEN Act
Ars Technica details of OPEN Act

Are you miffed when you waste your morning clicking away at Bejeweled Blitz only to have your top score obliterated by your Facebook-hacking nephew? Annoyed as heck when your level 100 deadly ninja army is defeated by a cheating level one wimp? Ever wonder what these jerks are like in real life? Apparently they act about the same in person as they do online…
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Red 5 Studios, developers of the upcoming MMO Firefall, has announced the League For Gamers. Established as a “true alternative” to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the LFG is meant to be a gathering place for gamers, developers and industry supporters who want to stand against legislation that’s detrimental to the games industry.
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It is our truly sad duty to inform the Mac gaming world of the passage of Bill “Phosphorous” Sears, artist extraordinaire of Digital Eel. Bill passed away yesterday evening due to complications from a heart attack. He is survived by his wife and two children.

Bill provided the absolutely stunning, wild, and insane art and music that is part of what makes Digital Eel’s games what they are. Though we know that this development company will continue forward, change will be unavoidable. We here at iGame Radio morn the loss of this artist who worked hard to stay true to his art. Please enjoy some of the really ingenious stuff he has created. And remember Phosphorous.

If you are looking for a place to get your game project noticed, you might want to look at the Selected Projects program at Game Connection America. Held in San Francisco this year March 5-7th, Game Connection America is inviting devs for the first time to submit console, mobile and online games at any stage of development for consideration.
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Our friends at G5 Entertainment have promised a big game lineup for 2012 at CES, and in keeping with that have sent us their list of iOS games to come out for January. They promise intrigues, mysteries, magic, stories of prince and princess, and some criminal cases to solve. But no All-Night Food Marts. Ah well.
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