Battlefield 3 Overtakes Modern Warfare 2

After the launch of Battlefield 3 just two weeks ago, many fans have flocked to the Xbox 360 to play DICE's latest.  So much so, that the game has toppled one of the Xbox 360's longest running activity leaders:  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.  Since last year, Call of Duty: Black Ops has held on to the title of most active game on the Xbox 360, and the release of Battlefield 3 failed to surpass the November 2010 release.

With over 9 million sold on launch day, Modern Warfare 3 itself could even have trouble surpassing Black Ops considering that it has by far outsold any game released in recent history on the platform

Valve's online game service Steam hit by hackers

The Steam video game service, used by 35 million people, has been compromised by hackers.

Its owner and operator, Valve, uncovered an intrusion into a user database while investigating a security breach of its discussion forums.
The attackers used login details from the forum hack to access a database that held ID and credit card data.
Valve said that, so far, it had no evidence that credit cards were being misused or Steam accounts abused.
Losing trust

The defacement took place on 6 November and the Steam forums were taken offline when Valve learned of the attack.
At first the firm said the discussion groups were offline for maintenance.
However, a message posted to the front page of the forums by Valve boss Gabe Newell on 10 November has revealed that the sites were shut down because of the defacement.
Valve's investigation of that incident revealed that the "the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums".
The initial investigation showed that the attackers gained access to a Steam database that held "user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information".