In a major embarrassment to the people behind the AMD Radeon Dirt 3 promotion, as many as 3 million Steam product redeem codes of Dirt 3 were leaked to the internet this week. According to a post on Steam forums by a Bohemia Interactive representative. AMD is running a promotion where select models of Radeon graphics cards across various AIB partners and AMD’s own A-Series APUs, come with free Dirt 3 keys that can be activated on Steam for a copy of the game.
According to the representative, those millions of keys were stored in an SQL database that could have been easily accessed by a simple missing .htaccess exploit. Steam might blacklist all those keys, and ask users with valid codes to re-register their products with AIB partners for fresh keys.
Steam users reported a “Steam Key Giveaway” running on an infamous imageboard, to which the Bohemia Interactive representative responded and reported the leak.
AMD Commented on the issue with this statement:
You may have heard this weekend, activation keys for free Dirt 3 game vouchers shipping with a few AMD products were compromised. The keys were hosted on a third-party fulfillment agency website, AMD4u.com, and were not on AMD’s website. Neither AMD nor Codemasters servers were involved.
September is upon us and that means the empty summer for games is finally over. But this year our wallets will cry due to tons of truly epic games that are upon us. I decided to pick my most anticipated games of the year.
You may agree or disagree with my picks but whatever the taste I am sure there is something for everyone here.
Games of September
Resistance 3 / PS3 / Sep. 8th
Humanity is almost finished the Chimera are slowly changing the climate. You are on the run trying to survive and get to New York in a last effort of saving earth.
Dead Island / PC,PS3,X360 / Sep. 9th
An open-world zombie horror game with co-op, loads of weapons, locations, vehicles and open mission structure. If that sounds interesting to you than keep an eye out for this one.
Warhammer 40 000: Space Marine / PC,PS3,X360 / Sep. 9th
This third person shooter set in the Warhammer 40 000 universe is blowing the conventional cover based, health regenerating approach in favour of an all out blast with creative weapons, jump packs, buckets of blood and pure fun. You are a space marine, you are a badass.
Trackmania 2: Canyon / PC / Sep. 14th
The popular online racing game returns with a new graphics engine, customisation options and obstacles. Let your imagination run wild.
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection / PS3 / Sep. 28th
Two of the highest rated classic games now remastered in HD in one nice package. If you missed them the first time don’t do it again.
I will try to do this also for October and November.
Happy gaming.
