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Fable 2 Cheat Codes

Elliott Back — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:53:16 +0000

Fable 2 just came out for the xBox 360, but there are already great sources of Cheats, Secrets, Exploits, and hacks out there. You just have to know where to look, and that’s something we do best!

Check out Gamespot’s Fable II Hints & Cheats guide, it includes:

A list of unlockable achievments

There’s also IGN’s Fable II Game Profile, which is currently empty:

A review of the game

If you know of any Fable 2 cheats, leave a comment or a link below and we’ll update this post to keep track of the latest ones!

Hitboxes, Lag Compensation in TF2 (Team Fortress 2)

Elliott Back — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:29:03 +0000

Go check out this video about TF2 Hitboxes, which will tell you that when lag Compensation is off, the hitboxes move ahead of the actually moving character, and when it is on, you must shoot the character (and not his floating hitboxes).

Typically lag compensation is on, so you’ll want to aim at the running model itself, and not at where you expect it to be when your bullets arrive there.

Team Fortress 2 + Garry’s Mod Photos

Elliott Back — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:23:04 +0000

What happens when you mix Garry’s Mod and Team Fortress 2? You get hilarious but awesome posed scenes. Check these out:

The cake wasn’t in fact a lie

If only we could all fly…

Flamers rocking out!

The classic, “whups, uh oh!”

A union that was never intended to happen

My personal favorite, from City 17

These are great. Link moar threads!

Valve Hacked: Cafe Credit Cards Compromised

Elliott Back — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:27:42 +0000

MaddoxX, a member of hacking group no-steam recently cracked one of VALVe’s file servers and obtained strange bits of confidential information, including credit card numbers, Valve software assets, and private security keys. Steam-review claims that because a Steam server was not compromised, there is no danger. Doug Lombardi, director of marketing at Valve, issued a statement with a similar sentiment:

There has been no security breach of Steam. The alleged hacker gained access to a third-party site that Valve uses to manage the commercial partners in its Cyber Cafe program. This Cyber Cafe billing system is not connected to Steam. We are working with law enforcement agencies on this matter, and encourage anyone with more information to e-mail us at Catch_A_Thief@valvesoftware.com .

Is this an authentic break-in at Valve, or just hype spun out of proportion by the blogosphere? Our favorite gaming site, 1Up, sheds a bit more light:

We ran all of MaddoxX’s proof by a software security expert who requested anonymity. “This looks real to me. He found a way into [Valve's] Cyber Café software,” the security expert confirms, “but what I’ve seen — the files pulled down — don’t indicate whether or not he breached Valve itself.”

The data MaddoxX released includes:

- Screenshots of internal Valve web pages
- A portion of Valve’s Cafe directory
- Error logs
- Credit card information of customers
- Financial information on Valve

It’s our opinion that the hack is legit, and that Valve’s security model is flawed. If one file-server can be compromised, they all can. If they can’t, then Valve is deploying servers haphazardly, leading to the possibility that flaws will sporadically exist which can be used to exploit their customer base. If you play Counterstrike or Half-life, be scared.

ShadowFrench Warcraft III Hacks & Cheats

Elliott Back — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:15:43 +0000

If you’re looking for cheats and hacks for your dota game, or a Warcraft 3 scrimmage, you need to check out the incredible stash of utilities that shadowfrench has:

MapHack
NameSpoofer
NameSpooferPro
StatHack
VisionHack
1vs1Hack
1vs1MsgHack
FakePlayer
GameSeeker
CustomKick
CustomConfig
PassGrabber
CdKeyGrabber
IpSniffer
LossBot
SpamBot

The chance of getting banned is high, but then again we see things like Custom Kick used all the time to kick lamers. The Name Spoofer also gets used by a lot of players to change the colour of their Battle.net names. Hack away!

Bluetooth Playstation Controller for Axim PDA

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:37:07 +0000

Engadget reports that Aximsite “rookie” kryten007, “who wanted a Bluetooth controller for his PDA but was unhappy with the fit of the only commercial model available, the GamePad”, has modded a $3 hollowed-out Playstation controller using the guts of the GamePad. Then he managed to attach the modded controller to his Axim x50 PDA by using altered, spring-loaded mechanical pencils. How cool!

Xbox 360 Mod Chips Available

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:44:32 +0000

At least in a few weeks… maybe. The “hack-proof” Xbox, at least as Microsoft deemed it initialy, will probably be hacked soon. They have admitted that “sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security”, but it seems to be sooner than later. “SPOnG is reporting that the first mod-chips for the 360 will be available within a month, allowing the play of “backup” game copies, which, with the recently released software that allows Xbox 360 game data extraction, means that Microsoft might have some piracy on their hands before too long. Though, if it’s any consolation for the boys in Redmond, SPOnG is reporting that ‘Microsoft’s security is the best we’ve seen to date for a disc-system. It it weren’t for the fact that DVD is used, it’s likely that further development wouldn’t have been worth anyone’s time.’”

Fix your xBox 360 crash problems

Elliott Back — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:14:51 +0000

Having trouble with your xBox 360 blue screening, locking up, crashing, or just generally freezing? Voodoo Extreme presents the likely hypothesis that this is caused by power supply overheating. If so, it’s a design flaw that Microsoft will have to fix in their next hardware iteration, but for now, you just want your black-friday cheap xbox 360 to work as planned. The solution is to lift your power supply off the flow to give it air circulation on all 6 sides. Voodoo reports over 7 hours of gaming time in this configuration.

If anyone wants to send me an xBox 360 for scientific testing, I would be more than happy to write up a protocol, conduct the experiments, and write a lab report on the crashes, resplendant with statistical significance tests…

Heckendorn’s Atari 800 Laptop

admin — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:09:06 +0000

Ben Heckendorn, hacker extraordinaire of the Portable PS1, PS2, SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, and Nintendo NES, has now turned his magic loose on the Atari 800. Measuring 11 3/8″ x 7 1/2″ x 2″, the Atari 800 laptop is one kick-ass piece of nostalgia. The Atari laptop boasts an 8″ TFT screen, dual speakers, a CompactFlash “disk drive” storage (16 megs currently), a built-in Ni-MH battery that can charge while running, a full keyboard, a built-in player 1 & 2 controls, joystick ports, a cursor control knob (the thing below space bar), a slim SIO floppy drive port for hooking up extra drives or a PC, a brushed aluminum & woodgrain case, and an “Error list” printed on case in reference to old portable/pocket computers.

Mr. Heckendorn Presents: Portable NES

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:22:09 +0000

Ben Heckendorn, maker of the Portable PS1, PS2, SNES, Sega Genesis, and N64, has hacked an original Nintendo NES and managed to make it portable by packing it into a tiny case that measures 5.25″ x 2.625″ x 1.625″, which makes it just big enough to accomodate a NES cartridge. This is his smallest portable to date, and is half the size of his previous NOAC portable. It has a 2.5″ LCD screen, runs off just 4 AA’s, and sports a headphone jack.