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Sega has been hacked. Over the weekend, it admitted that its Sega Pass website has been compromised exposing the personal details of 1,290,775 registered users. The attack mainly affects users in Europe and North and sounds all too familiar in the wake of the Sony PlayStation Network hack.

Fortunately, there are some major differences between the situation faced by Sega and the Sony debacle. The big one is that, since Sega uses external firms to process payments, no credit card details have been swiped. And this time, LulzSec says it didn’t do it. In fact, though it hates Sony, it seems it’s got a lot of love for Sega…

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Virtua Tennis 4 review

As predictably as a British wildcard crashing out valiantly in the early stages of Wimbledon comes Virtua Tennis 4. “Another Virtua Tennis game?” you say. Ah, but this one’s different, and not just because it features PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect functionality. Is Virtua Tennis 4 the best in the series yet? Read our review to find out…

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What’s in a name? With rumours flying around the launch of a new Nintendo console, we’ve trawled the archives for some of the finest, most evocative and downright entertaining codenames gadgets have been christened with before launch. Read on to meet them and their secret identities.

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Stop the clock – it’s the end of the working week. Grab your bag and get ready to head out of the door, but before you do, take a look at today’s top stories, here in your teatime tech roundup.

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Virtua Tennis 4 preview

Virtua Tennis 4 is the latest edition in the legendary gaming franchise, now sporting PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect motion controls and an overhauled World Tour mode just in time for Wimbledon 2011. Could the new features make Virtua Tennis 4 the best in the series yet? We took a swing at it ahead of release later this month: check out our preview to find out what we made of it.

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As news continues to come in about the true scale of the Earthquake which hit Japan last week, several games developers have announced that they will be postponing or cancelling some of their new releases out of respect for the tragedy.

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Boom! Virtua Fighter 2 iPhone has kicked its way into the iTunes App Store. The game is a port of the old Mega Drive game so expect rough and ready 2D visuals rather than the 3D of the Sega Saturn-era. There’s eight playable characters in the game and single player tournament mode but the best feature is Bluetooth battle mode which means you can engage in vs. fights with iOS-device-packing friends. Virtua Fighter 2 iPhone is in the iTunes App Store now.

Out now | £1.19 | iTunes

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One man, one dream, one copy of the Sonic 3 soundtrack. 8BitBanooct1 has created a recreation of the Sonic 3 soundtrack through a NES creating an 8-bit coming together of Sega and its old foe Nintendo. You can listen to the whole thing in the video above and hit the link at the bottom of the page to grab the downloads. Ace!
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