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GoGamer is my favorite online websites to purchase games as they’ve always been dependable, timely, and have great prices. Black Friday + GoGamer = win as you will see below:

GoGamer Black Friday Deals

PC Games
Ultima Online 9th Anniversary Collection $42.90
Sacred 2 Collector’s Edition $42.90
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 $33.90
Left 4 Dead $34.90
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning $32.90
Spore $34.90
Fallout 3 $30.00
FarCry 2 (I) $29.90
X3: Terran Conflict (I) $29.90
Guild Wars Trilogy $29.90
X-Plane 9 $27.90
FIFA Soccer 2009 $24.90
Crysis Warhead $21.90
Stalker: Clear Sky $19.90
World of Warcraft Battlechest $19.90 (Limit 10 per customer) (Friday and Saturday Only)
Mercenaries 2 $17.90
Spiderman Web of Shadows $14.90
Unreal Tournament 3 $9.90
Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess $9.90
Lineage 2: 4th Anniversary Edition $9.90
Alone in the Dark $5.90
F.E.A.R. Director’s Edition $5.00
Empire Earth III $4.90
The Sims: Pet Story $3.90
Soldier of Fortune Payback $3.90
Prey $3.90
Lord of the Rings Online Limited Edition $2.90
SpiderMan: Friend or Foe $2.90
Just Cause $2.90
Stanglehold $2.90
Battlestations: Midway $2.90
BlackSite Area 51 $1.90
Thrillville $1.00

PC Accessories
Zboard MERC Stealth Gaming Keyboard $44.90
Microsoft SideWinder Precision Racing Wheel $41.90
TekNmotion PulseWave/Pulsar PC Gaming Headphones $34.90
Razer Piranha Gaming Headset $34.90
Razer Diamondback 3G Gaming Mouse Flaming Red $29.90
Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard $29.90
Saitek Aviator Joystick $29.90
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard Optical Desktop Pro $22.90
TekNmotion 4 Piece CD/DVD Storage Case Combo $19.90
Saitek Eclipse Keyboard Red $19.90
Razer Mantis Speed Gaming Mouse Mat $12.90
Microsoft Digital l-Media Pro Keyboard $9.90
TekNmotion Yapster Headphones Black $7.90
Microsoft LifeCam VX-1000 $7.90
Saitek PP26 Cyborg Rumble Pad $7.90
TekNmotion 48 CD/DVD Wallet Black On Black $1.00

Mac
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare $33.90
The Sims 2 $29.90
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 $29.90
World of Warcraft Battlechest $19.90 (Limit 10 per customer) (Friday and Saturday Only)

Xbox 360
Fallout 3 $49.90
Gears of War 2 $49.90
Call of Duty: World at War (I) $45.90
GTA IV Special Edition $44.90
Guitar Hero: World Tour (I) $42.90
FarCry 2 $37.90
GTA IV $34.90
Legendary $24.90
Fracture (I) $14.90
Frontlines Fuel of War $9.90
Blazing Angels for Xbox 360 $9.90

PS3
Frag FX Controller $44.90
Fallout 3 $42.90

Wii
Nintendo Wii Super Bundle $499.95 (Limit 1 per Household, Quantities Limited)
Guitar Hero: World Tour for Wii $35.90
Alvin & The Chipmunks for Wii $9.90 (Limit 1 per customer)

DS
Guitar Hero: On Tour $34.90

PS2
Eye ToyKinetic w/Camera $19.90
Tomb Raider Anniversary $12.90
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith $14.90
Alone in the Dark $6.90

Gamecube
Nintendo GameCube Bundle $79.95

In a recent press release from EA Games, the company has decided to bring it’s line up of hit titles to the Mac OS X platform.

Electronic Arts has a reputation for being the biggest third party publisher/developer in gaming for quite some time now. With franchises that are guaranteed million+ sellers, and some heavy hitting PC titles, EA has proven their dominance in the gaming industry.

Willing to spread the love to as many people as possible (and perhaps their wallets) EA has announced a deal with Apple to develop and port many of its best PC games to Apple’s Mac OS X.

For years, if you wanted to play PC games, you got a Windows-based operating system. Leading the way as the de-facto standard in the computing industry, and with millions of installed base, developing with Windows as the lead platform just made sense. With PC gaming on the rise, more attention is being turned to converting the slapstick industry into a serious competitor for your gaming time and the same analogous relationship could be applied to Apple products.

With mainstream successes such as the iPod, and the hotly anticipated iPhone, Macintosh products are on the rise, and now coming soon to an OS X based system near you will be a few new EA titles: continue reading…

VANCOUVER, B.C.–The prize in the hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference here just got bigger.

TippingPoint, which runs the Zero Day Initiative bug bounty program, is offering to pay $10,000 to the hacker who commandeers one of two MacBooks. The target computers are connected to a wireless access point and fully patched, including the update for 25 vulnerabilities that Apple released on Thursday.

Originally a successful hack would be rewarded with the MacBook. There had been some rumblings among event attendees that the reward was not big enough to draw interest. To qualify for the $10,000 a successful attack has to be carried out with a new, yet-to-be-patched vulnerability, a TippingPoint representative at CanSecWest said.

CanSecWest organizers have set up the MacBooks with all security updates, but without additional security software or settings. Attendees are able to connect to the machines via the access point through Ethernet or Wi-Fi.

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Mathew Ingram from Canada’s Globe and Mail writes that Microsoft will require at least the $299 Business version of Vista or higher if installing on a Mac with virtualization. Running the cheaper Basic or Premium versions would be a violation of their user agreement. Accordinding to the article, Microsoft’s reasoning is ‘because of security issues with virtualization technology’. Sounds suspiciously like a ‘Mac penalty’ cost that Microsoft is trying to justify.

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Experts agree that Mac OS X has plenty vulnerabilities, it isn’t more secure than other operating systems, yet nobody writes malware for the platform.

The Mac OS X system is not inherently more secure than other operating systems, according to the researcher. The Unix/BSD code on which OS X is based is fairly well known, and van Oers noted that there are more than 700 pieces of malware targeting various Unix and Linux platforms. Vulnerabilities in OS X are also plentiful. Apple’s most recent update patched more than 30 security flaws.

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No, not McDonald’s Big Mac attacks; attacks on Macintosh computers. Quoted is an article warning of this possibility. Of course, according to many Macintosh owners, this is not possible since Macs are protected from any attack, any flaw, any end-user’s lack of computer experience, any weather condition, sunspots, male pattern baldness, any election result, any door-to-door solicitor, any male or female in tights, any tax bracket, or any adolescent with a magic wand and a British accent.

Online fraudsters may be ready to put Mac users in their sights.

On Thursday, antivirus firm F-Secure published a brief analysis of a proof-of-concept adware program for the Mac OS X that could theoretically hook into any application to run attacker-specified code. The program, dubbed IAdware by F-Secure, could be silently installed in a user’s account without requiring administrator rights.

“We won’t disclose the exact technique used here–it’s a feature not a bug–but let’s just say that installing a System Library shouldn’t be allowed without prompting the user,” stated F-Secure in the blog post. “Especially as it only requires Copy permissions.”

Vulnerability researchers have increasingly focused on finding flaws in the Mac OS. During the month of November, two serious flaws in Apple’s operating system were disclosed as part of the Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) project. Researchers and attackers have also focused more on turning vulnerabilities into exploit code, according to a recent report published by Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus.

The IAdware proof-of-concept code did nothing malicious, but merely opened up a browser each time an application was opened, F-Secure stated.

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