Welcome to the first edition of The Weekend Recap, a weekly article where we cover the news that took place over the past weekend. Enjoy!
Hundreds of BF3 players get ban-hammered by EA
Posted Sunday, November 14 2011 via Twitter
EA has stated that it has begun banning and stat-wiping the hundreds of player accounts who have been caught cheating, saying they have "zero tolerance" for cheaters and is "determined to punish players who play without any integrity."
According to the BF3Blog, players were able to accumulate "tens of thousands" of points in a single match by the exploitation of a glitch where players would misuse the engineer repair tool.
EA has said that it will continue to use the ban-hammer on these dishonest players as it is made aware of them, and a patch to fix the glitch is currently in the works.
Insomniac pulls MyResistance.net down for maintenance
Posted Sunday, November 14 2011 via Kotaku
MyResistance.net has been pulled down for maintenance, following a forum user report that alerted admins to a few malware scripts that ran when users would visit the site.
The site is thought to be a victim of an attack by hackers, following a string of attacks this past week, including Valve’s official Steam forums, which has been down for the past five days.
Stay tuned.
Happy Birthday, PlayStation 3!
Posted Friday, November 11 2011 via Gematsu
Guess what, PlayStation fans? It is the 5th anniversary of the PlayStation 3, since it’s launch in Japan on Nov. 11, 2006, and a short while later for the United States and Europe.
So from all of us PlayStation fans, Happy Birthday! May you have many more years to come.
EA details workaround for FIFA 12 crashing
Posted Friday, November 11 2011 via CVG
EA released a rather large patch for FIFA 12 on Thursday, which has seen users experiencing total game crashes. Thankfully though, EA has provided a work around for those experiencing the issues to help alleviate the problems until a proper fix can be provided.
What you’ll need to do, is to delete the game’s UGC file, which can be found in the Saved Data Utility (from the XMB) or your FIFA 12 profile found in the My FIFA 12 menu of the game.
You will need to re-download the content after you have deleted it.
Assassin’s Creed: Embers gets launch trailer
Posted Friday, November 11 2011 via YouTube
Ubisoft has revealed the launch trailer for Assassin’s Creed: Embers, a short flick created by UbiWorkshop. Embers serves as final epilogue to Ezio’s tale, which will be included in the signature and collectors editions of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations.
Ubisoft warns that Embers contains some spoilers, and suggests players watch it after they have completed Revelations.
You can watch the full trailer below.
That’s it for this week’s Weekend Recap folks. Please leave your feedback in the comments section below!