The dark side of hacking rears its ugly head once more, spreading malware all over internet. This time, Atlus.com falls victim to a "third-party entity" which apparently managed to hack into the site, embedding the dreaded trojan virus into the system. What's worse is that the virus may have spread to the visitors of the said site, giving gamers from all over the world a very, very bad day.

Take THAT, Los Angeles! Over at the sunny land of Mexico, the local Xbox 360 team decided to try to add their names in the Guinness Book of World Records by making the world's hugest, biggest, most ginormous, and oversized pinata - in the form of Viva Pinata's Horstachio, of course.

The pinata was built at Six Flags in Mexico, and the world's tallest pinata horse ended up being 45 feet tall (a full 10 feet taller than LA's version), weighing 4,400 pounds. In the mean time, the Guinness folks are yet to declare, that yes, this does take the cake for being the world's biggest multi-colored horse effigy. The makers are pretty confident about their feat though, and are sure that the announcement will come soon enough

It is unknown whether this giant pinata is actually filled with candy. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists have been suggesting that this may actually be a Trojan Horstachio which Microsoft will send over to Sony. They are also speculating that another (not as huge) Macaraccoon is also under construction and is due to be sent to the gates of the Nintendo headquarters.

And yeah, we were kidding about the whole Trojan Horstachio thing.

Thanks to badam for the tip!

For a good while now rumors have been making the rounds that the Redmond giant is plotting its first foray into the handheld market, these rumors are subsequently squashed by someone at Microsoft, simply to re-emerge a few minutes later. Only last month Xbox executive Neil Thompson stated categorically that "a pocket-sized Xbox isn’t on the cards," and that Microsoft was "not even thinking about that at the moment." Of course it didn't take long for someone to fan the flames again, and this time it was the big guy himself, Bill Gates.

So as with many other things in the gaming world it seems to be on again, off again and super-duper top-secret, but who cares if Microsoft wants to make the darn thing, the real question is, do we want the device and if we do, what do we want from it?

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