Librarium Online Recovering from Hack Attack

Today I received an e-mail from Hard Aun, one of the super big bosses at Librarium Online, regarding the hack attack on LO and their plans.

For security reasons he, nor I, will go in depth with any plans.  I don’t know much, nor should I, of their plans but here’s his e-mail.

“We thought you might like to know what’s going on with Librarium-Online.  Yes, it was hacked, and because Blackhat was away, and there was a virus-dropping Pop-up added to the forum, we decided to TEMPORARILY close the site.  We aim to get LO back up on Sunday 24th September (in time for people to post about UK Games Day)

Anyway, we have a little message board at http://www.warvault.net/librarium/   for further updates, although we hope there won’t be any and the next time you see my words will be on Sunday.”

On behalf of all of us here at the CWF Game Game Discussions Podcast & Blog I extend my sympathies and encouragement for a speedy recovery to the LO gang.  I also want to thank Angron for taking the initiative to set up that lifeboard forum.

Just remain patient and I know Black Hat, or someone from LO, will send the word out when it is back on its feet.

GTA Online

MP Rockstar Games has never came out with an official online version of any Grand Theft Auto PC game, but since the start, GTA fans have been attempting to make their own third-party multiplayer versions of the games. It all started with GTA III. A group of people got together and attempted to create a modded version of the game allowing you to see other people’s cars. Hackers worked until they found out how to get YOUR player’s coordinates out on the net, and receive other’s X-Y coordinates also. Though this was very crude, it was the start of something that hundreds of thousands of people enjoy today. The development of GTA3-Online FINAL never got released, and was not focused on at all once it’s successor, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, was released for the PC. This time, though, hackers were able to get much further in their effort to make GTA an online multiplayer game.

    The first betas of “Multi-Theft Auto: Vice City”, or “MTA:VC” for short, were released. Though everyone looked like Tommy Vercetti, and everyone drove the same car, it was a definite start for the creators of this mod. Unfortunately, you could not take your player out of his car, and you were stuck driving around playing racing games, and so on. It was very hard to drive anyway, as the cars were not properly ‘synced’ to other players, and all of your opponents cars would jump 10 miles at a time, while it appeared you were driving smoothly. Meanwhile, a different group of people followed the MTA:VC Team’s steps and created “Vice City-Multiplayer” aka “VC:MP”. However, in this variation of Vice City, you could actually get out of your car, and kill other players. As mentioned above, both MTA:VC and VC:MP were slow and buggy as heck, which made for gameplay almost as annoying as those Hoveround commercials (I didn’t waaanna do it!), the reeal action didn’t start until San Andreas was released for the PC.

TheGamer in San Andreas? The creators of both MTA:VC and VC:MP were extremelly excited to start messing with the game’s source, and see what they could cook up. Not so long after the release, both “MTA:SA” and “SA:MP” were in production. Many months later, both MTA:SA and SA:MP are in stable releases, and thousands of people are sitting at their computer right now, playing San Andreas online. MTA:SA still limits users to stay in their cars, but is now a GREAT racing component for San Andreas. SA:MP, on the other hand, lets you do virtually everything you can do in single player—online, with tons of others. Enhanced with IRC chat, money trading, banking, racing, and much more, GTA San Andreas is now better than ever.

If you have San Andreas for the PC, consider downloading MTA:SA or SA:MP. Remember to join the -=GAMER UNLIMITED SERVER=- on SA:MP! ;)

http://mtasa.com/
http://sa-mp.com/

CWF Sponsored RPG Night @ Battleground Games

CWF’s very own Steve is running a RPG Night at Battleground Games in Abington, Mass.

He will be running this on Friday evenings, 8 or 9pm, in Battleground’s exclusive RPG room (seen below). It is a toss up between Stargate SG-1 and Dungeons & Dragons. He is looking for interested gamers in the South Shore area to contact him and sign up. YOU get to choose what game is played.

So far there are 3 confirmed players, including your’s truly, and at least 5 people are needed.

Be sure to contact Steve if you’re interested. E-mail him at wolfyugo@aol.com or IM him on AIM at wolfyugo. Be sure to tell him it is about his RPG and that you found out about it here.

We look forward to gaming with you.

Pacific Marauders Game Club Tourney

The Pacific Marauders Game Club, based in the San Diego area of California, are holding a 40k and WFB tourney on November 4th.

It is called Battle by the Bay and includes BBQ and drinks.  Your $20 entrance fee ($15 for members) gets you into the event, which includes over $200 in prizes!

Check out their website Pacific Marauders Game Club for more information.

Why Did You Post This?

We’re sharing this for a couple reasons.  We cover all aspects of different types of gaming.  This include game clubs.  If you run or are in a game club and want to get some info spread around just contact us.  We’re happy to do a posting or talk about your event in our podcast.

Second, there’s a second where’s the first?, I received a really nice e-mail from one of the Marauders named Wade who had some nice things to say about the podcast.  We got talking and he mentioned this event.

Wade, this one’s for you!  Also, look for our next podcast when we promote the Pacific Marauders Game Club and give a shout out to our new friend Wade.  Thanks for listening!

Librarium Online Suffers Hack Attack

Librarium Online, the famed gaming website and forum, suffered a nasty hack attack today by a dastardly group of hackers.

The hackers defaced LO with curse words and immature ramblings.  They also included a virus that would infect visitors, which is partly why LO closed down.  

At first only the main page was affected and the forums still worked. But, eventually LO administrators had the entire site suspended by their host to avoid further issues.

If you go to LO you will see the following message, “This account has been temporarily disabled. If you are the owner of this account and have questions about its status, please contact your provider’s technical support staff.

Thank you for your understanding.”

In order to conserve their bandwidth and resources please do not access LO at this time. We received all this information from Angron, Warvault owner, and hope you’ll find it useful.

At the risk of postulating too much we wonder why there’s been a string of hack attacks on gaming websites. LO, WV, and a few others have recently been defaced. We don’t have an answer but maybe we’ll discuss this in a post or on the podcast down the road.