The reports coincided with the EU Diablo 3 servers going offline on Sunday afternoon for around four hours, preventing players from logging in (error 33). It has been suggested that the EU servers were taken offline following a SQL injection attack, but this remains unconfirmed.

Blizzard offers an Authenticator designed to provide extra security to your account. Donlan did not have the authenticator before the hack, but reports suggest accounts have been compromised even with this enabled.

One theory suggested by players on the Battle.net forum revolves around hijacking session identifiers, which would allow hackers to take over accounts without alerting Blizzard's authentication server. Again, this remains unconfirmed.

Whatever the cause, Blizzard will be keen to address the situation quickly, especially in light of the upcoming release of the real money auction house and the growing complaints from players. Blizzard said last week it was set for release at the end of the month.

-Many minor fixes and improvements
-Out-of-combat regeneration skill for all classes
-Now comes with Diablo true type fonts
-Balanced some Barbarian skills, revamped Berserk
-Fixed resistances on all Hell Knights and Swarms
-Introduces fan-made D2 items
-Epic boss battles in Grim and Hell
-Hellfire quest & another secret quest for Hell difficulty

1.Arma II
2.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3.Torchlight II
4.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Collection 1
5.Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier
6.Portal 2
7.Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
8.Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Complete Pack
9.Dear Esther
10.Rayman Origins

Steam Wallet Codes make it easy for you to put money in your account, even with cash.

How do they work? Steam Wallet Codes look and act just like game keys except they put money directly into your wallet. Once you have your Steam Wallet Code, log into your Steam account (or make one if you don't have one) and go to "Redeem a Steam Wallet Code" Then -POOF!- you're ready to have fun and get what you've always wanted on Steam. Right now, we only have them available in the United States and in $20 and $50 denominations.

Where do I get one? You can purchase Steam Wallet Codes at GameStops in the United States. You can find them on the shelves or just let the sales associate at the counter know you'd like one. On the shelf, they look just like the blue cards on the right, but the Steam Wallet Code will be on the printed receipt you get from the cashier.

As we mentioned earlier this week, we've decided to move out our target launch for the real-money auction house beyond our original estimated date of May 22. Our new estimated date for the launch of this new system is Tuesday, May 29.

In previous engines, one floating ember was enough to slow performance considerably; a shower of them was impossible. With Unreal Engine 4, there can be millions of such particles, as long as the hardware is potent enough to sustain them. Game developers overuse features of every new engine, because they are suddenly so easy to implement. In the original Unreal Engine, for example, the ability to render colored lighting led to a rash of games that employed the effect. The same may prove true for UE4's particle effects, for better or worse. ("Mark my words," Bleszinski says, "those particles are going to be whored by developers.")

In one 153-second clip, the Epic team has packed all the show-off effects that have flummoxed developers for years: lens flare, bokeh distortion, lava flow, environmental destruction, fire, and detail in landscapes many miles away. Plus, it's breathtakingly photo-realistic-or would be if demon knights were, you know, a real thing.

But that's just the opening scene. After the cinematic, Epic's senior technical artist, Alan Willard, starts playing the demo. At this point the view switches to that disembodied first-person perspective made so ubiquitous by shooting games like the Call of Duty franchise and Epic's own influential Unreal titles. Willard maneuvers his avatar into a dimly lit room where a flashlight turns on, revealing eddies of dust-thousands of floating particles that were invisible until exposed. In another room, globes of various sizes float in the air. Willard rolls a light-emanating orb along the floor (think of a spherical flashlight that rolls like a bowling ball) and beams of light wobble and change direction, illuminating parts of the room and revealing the clusters of floating spheres with a kind of strobe effect. At first it all seems perfectly familiar: "Well, yeah," you think, "that's how they'd act in the real world. What's the big deal?" But it is a big deal: This is stuff that videogames have never been able to simulate-the effects simply aren't possible on today's consoles.