How used games work on Xbox One according to UK retailers

　　Welcome back to Jetsetter, Digital Trends’ weekly column that spelunks its way down into the vast world of import gaming and international game development. The United States may represent the biggest video game market on the planet by sheer dollars spent, besting even the $8 billion per year online gaming market of China (take that, China!), but it also represents a fairly limited window into the full world of gaming.
　　This week more than most proved just how specific US gaming really is. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Microsoft announced a new Xbox this week. The Xbox One (we’re still working on an abbreviation, but XB1 sounds like dentistry equipment and Xbone sounds like a failed 1992 rap star) is real, and its plan is to conquer the living room. Based on Microsoft’s press conference, however, it’s primary focus is the American living room, at least so far. Cable television integration and the NFL aren’t exactly big sells in Italy, India, or Australia. The US has always been the Xbox’s stronghold, but it was strange to see Microsoft so willfully dismiss the world at large, especially when the whole planet was watching.
　　Jetsetter does what Microsoft don’t! Let’s see what’s happening around the world.
　　UK retailers shine a light on just how Xbox One used game sales will work.
　　Microsoft was, at best, cagey about how used games will work on the new console. Since game discs have to be installed on the console, inexorably linking that game to an Xbox Live profile, reselling those discs seems like a moot point. The disc is worthless, right? Microsoft insisted it isn’t, though it’s been silent on specifically what value a disc will have. According to retailers in the U.K., all used games will have a hefty activation fee built into the price, meaning the cost of used games will rise, while the profits of used game retailers will plummet.
　　After buying a game you can take it to a store and trade it in, just like you have over the past three decades. Once the game is registered as having been sold as used, it will be deactivated off the hard drive of the original owner. The store then pays a fee and connects to Microsoft’s cloud network to reactivate the disc, with pieces of the fee going to both the game publisher and Microsoft. Then the store resells the game for £35, or about $53. That may be the very same fee you’d pay if a friend handed you the disc and you just tried to install it on Xbox One anyway. The costs may change, though. Microsoft apparently hasn’t decided on reactivation fees for any region, U.K. or otherwise.
　　So what’s the difference between a used game and a new game in this scenario? Good question.
　　South Korea loves video games. A lot. And not just StarCraft, which has its own TV channel, professional leagues, and even match fixing scandals. Half of the population of the country “play games regularly.” But apparently video games are too popular in Korea now.
　　Conservative Saenuri political party member Representative Shin Eui-jin introduced a bill this month that would regulate the sale of video games in the same way as controlled substances. That is to say, games would have the same restrictions placed on them as hard drugs, alcohol, cigarettes in order for South Korea to have a “happy and healthy society,” as Rep. Eui-jin puts it. The South Korean National Assembly will vote on the bill soon.
　　Capcom brings you the very best limited editions, unless you live in the US.
　　If you’re a collector who likes to see games all lined up on a shelf, and you happen to be a Capcom fan, it’s time to move out of the U.S. Digital-only is the drum Capcom’s beating in America these days. Take Ace Attorney 5: in America, it’s a 3DS eShop only release called Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies. In Japan, it’s a boxed game called Gyakuten Saiban 5 that comes with stickers, a sweet 3DS carrying case and a freaking statue. We are, as they say, chopped liver.
　　Ace Attorney 5 isn’t the biggest import treasure coming from Capcom. Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara, otherwise known as “THE GREATEST ARCADE BRAWLER EVER,” is getting its first home release since a terribly rare Sega Saturn edition hit Japan in 1998, but only on PSN, XBLA, Steam and eShop. Not in Japan, though. In Japan, you can actually buy a PS3 disc of the game that also comes with the full soundtrack on CD, the fifteen years out of print Capcom Secret File: Dungeons & Dragons making of book, the also way out of print arcade book guide Capcom released back in 1996, some stickers, an arcade-style instruction card, and drink coasters. Coasters! All for the wholly low price of 12,000 yen. Or about $116. So worth it

The Sculpt Ease and comfort model adds guidance

　　On May perhaps 23, Microsoft introduced the Sculpt Consolation Mouse and Sculpt Cell Mouse, both equally of which contain buttons that will help end users to find their way promptly to the Begin monitor.
　　The Sculpt Comfort mouse includes a touch-sensitive blue strip working along the aspect, which Microsoft calls the "Windows touch tab." The Sculpt Mobile Mouse features the same Windows button.
　　The Sculpt Ease and comfort model adds guidance for many added gestures which Microsoft officials imagine may support end users far better navigate Windows 8.
　　As explained in a new write-up over the Microsoft Windows Encounter site: "If you swipe up about the blue strip, it cycles via your open Home windows Retail store apps in Windows eight. And if you swipe down, it's going to reveal each of the open apps (around the left side of one's display) for yourself to choose the 1 you need."
　　The Sculpt Ease and comfort Mouse is due out in June for $39.95 (approximated retail selling price). The Sculpt Design model will be available this thirty day period for $29.ninety five (ERP).
　　The Sculpt Comfort and ease mouse and also the Sculpt Cellular mouse both of those do the job with Window 7, Home windows eight and Mac OS ten.four and higher. Neither seems to work with Windows RT, determined by the spec information and facts provided by Microsoft.
　　While about the matter of enhancing Windows 8, Microsoft before this week built accessible for obtain an extremely awesome Windows eight training brochure. It is a multi-page, colourful PDF that features numerous navigational strategies and tips. I want this were in my box with my Surface RT

The Onion explains how it got hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

　　Remember how we all thought it was weird that the rebel organization Syrian Electronic Army targeted satirical news outlet The Onion after successfully hacking actual, usually reliable news sources on Twitter? No matter how odd the choice was, here’s the truth according to The Onion: The hack attack penetrated the publication with at least three methods of phishing attacks, also known as sending links that gain control of one’s email account under the guise of receiving really important information – a trick a lot of people still fall for.
　　In a write-up detailing how the hacking happened, The Onion explained that the Syrian Electronic Army first sent out emails to a few Onion employees containing links disguised as a Washington Post story about their organization. Of course, any self-respecting journalist would jump at a chance to check out a tip … only it wasn’t a tip, but rather a malicious link that lead to another malicious link until it finally landed on a page that asked for login details. The last link bore the word Google in its extra-lengthy URL – which would probably raise flags for Internet savvy users – making it easy for anyone to quickly make the assumption of its legitimacy and right for asking one’s password to Google Apps before redirecting to Gmail.
　　All it took was for one Onion employee to fall for this trickery. Once the hackers got into the account, they used it to send out more of the same email to other Onion employees, who by nature wouldn’t question the act since it came from a source they trusted.
　　A lot of staff members clicked the link and stopped as soon as they were asked to enter log in details, but just like the first phase of the phishing attack, all it took was two more employees to fall for the trap, and one of them happened to have social media account access.
　　The Onion became aware of this breach quickly and sent out alerts to everyone to change their email passwords. The Syrian Electronic Army, however, became unstoppable at that point – they successfully avoided being thwarted right away by modifying their original phishing email to look like a password-reset link and sending it out to a few more people, excluding staff members who worked in the IT department. This third and final phase of the phishing attack affected two more accounts, and one of those accounts happened to be the back-up email for regaining Twitter access, just in case hackers took control of it.
　　Instead of feeling duped and defeated, The Onion took this opportunity to publish an article relating to the incident. They also forced a company-wide password reset for every Google Apps account owned by staffers to ensure that potential security breaches caused by the Syrian Electronic Army are nipped at the bud. “In total, the attacker compromised at least five accounts. The attacker logged in to compromised accounts from 46.17.103.125 which is also where the SEA hosts a website,” revealed The Onion in a blog post.
　　“Don’t let this happen to you,” The Onion warned in big, bold print. They ended their report by providing tips on how to prevent this sort of attack from happening. While most of them pertain to people who work for a company or organization, some of them are pretty obvious: Analyze the links you receive and be extra wary of ones that ask for login details, and anyone can be a victim of a phisher – your boyfriend, your best friend, your boss, even your mom (especially your mom). Make sure to tell them to be extra careful as well.
　　We recently were able to talk with the Syrian Electronic Army about its rash of Twitter hacks and the motives behind them.

They're an insignificant percentage of modern

　　Home windows Notepad has become around considering that Home windows initially appeared in 1985, as well as NT model has not altered much for your ten years. What has changed is it truly is no longer the specified viewer any time you notify World-wide-web Explorer to indicate the supply code of the online page. With IE8, that occupation was handed about on the far more advanced viewer built into IE's Developer Resources, to really make it competitive with Netscape and Google Chrome.
　　You may modify the default. Start out IE8 and push F12 to open up the Developer Tools, open up the File menu, click Customise Internet Explorer View Supply, and select Notepad in place of Default Viewer. In the event you run Notepad, you may be able to load, edit and preserve .html documents. (Obviously, when you just double-click them, they may load while in the default browser.)
　　A different workaround is to adjust the file extension that tells Home windows which program to employ to open up a file. Push F2, improve the title on the local copy within your file from, for example, NewsPage.html to NewsPage.txt, double click the file and it'll open in Notepad in editable type. Once you have completed enhancing it, help save the file and change the title again to NewsPage.html before uploading it on your server.

　　Or else, I do not anticipate Microsoft was far too concerned about individuals even now utilizing Notepad to edit HTML documents. They're an insignificant percentage of modern 1.4 billion or so Home windows consumers, and there are numerous free of charge alternate options.
　　By way of example, Microsoft presents a strong totally free online page design program Visual Studio Express 2012 for World wide web, plus a totally free version of Microsoft Expression World-wide-web 4, which was an expensive professional system till it absolutely was discontinued. There are several cost-free third-party alternatives like KompoZer. This really is relatively similar to the long-dead Microsoft FrontPage. Yet another totally free or low cost option is Serif's WebPlus.
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