Sony has unveiled plans to launch a UMD Passport for its PS Vita console once it officially released. Gamers with large libraries of UMD games from previous PSP consoles will be able to sign up for access to the new UMD Passport. However you wont be able to simply port your game across to play on the new PS Vita device.

Once you have registered and received acceptance from Sony you will then need to download a free Registration UMD app that will then allow you to insert the UMD and link to a PSN account to register the title. Once this is done you will then be able to re-purchase the title at a discounted value.

The discounted value will be between £4 and £12, states Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and currently the UMD Passport supports only around 200 games from 40 publishers. A full list can be found over ... Read more »

Google has this week rolled out a new update for its Chrome OS which now allows users to play a little more friendly with the latest Microsoft Windows Operating systems, thanks to the added NTFS support.

Chrome version 15.0.874.117, Platform version: 1011.118 now support NTFS and includes a number of other features such as a new Web user interface login, additional support for playback of key media codecs and improved video decode performance.

Together with improved networking tweaks as well as plenty of security update and bug fixes, for more details on all the new features and tweaks included in the update jump over to the Google Chrome OS site.

Source: Google

With the launch of Assassin’s Creed Revelations arriving next week Ubisoft have now released an awesome launch trailer which show what you can expect from the Assassin’s Creed Revelations game once its officially launched on November 15th. Enjoy!

In the new Assassin’s Creed Revelations game, master assassin Ezio follows in the footsteps of the legendary Altaïr on a journey of discovery and revelation.

It is a perilous path that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilise the region. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations game that will be released on November 15 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Over the weekend the Valve Steam forum was defaced by hackers redirecting requests for the forum to the hackers website. Now after further investigation by Valve it looks like the hack went deeper than originally thought and has compromised the main Steam database.

The main Steam database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. Although Valve are still unsure whether encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information was taken.

Valves announcement:

We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card in ... Read more »