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Fraudulent Cashier's Check Notice Like many businesses, Blackhawk Bank & Trust may be the target of consumer security attacks or become the victim of the unauthorized use of our name and logo as part of a consumer fraud or identity theft crime. It has come to our institution's attention that a cashier's check with Blackhawk Bank & Trust's logo has been distributed to persons in connection with a mystery shopper/consumer protection draw letter, instructing recipients to either "wire", "send" or "ship" money as soon as possible. BLACKHAWK BANK & TRUST HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THESE ALLEGED DRAWS, AS THEY ARE FRAUDULENT. If you have received any material purporting to be in connection with Blackhawk Bank & Trust and have questions about its authenticity, please contact any of our locations. To view a list of our locations and phone numbers, click here. If the suspected fraud was received via mail, you are encouraged to file a claim of Mail Fraud with the United States Postal Inspection Service at 1-877-876-2455 or visit their website at https://... . You are also encouraged to contact your local or state law enforcement office on issues involving fraud. Consumer Privacy and Protection Identity theft, fraud, and online attacks unfortunately have become a risk of everyday business. We at Blackhawk Bank & Trust are doing everything we can to protect you from becoming a victim. In addition to using technology, policies, and procedures, we feel that knowledge is power. Our goal is to enable you the customer to protect yourself by learning how your identity can be attacked, how to identify such attacks, and how to protect yourself against those attacks. Use the links on the right to learn more about a variety of threats, how to protect yourself from them, and what to do if you feel you have become a victim. Check out the tips below to begin protecting yourself today! Tips to Prevent Identity Theft and Fraud Never respond to any e-mail that asks for debit card and personal info

http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/687/how-hosting-providers-can-battle-fraudulent-sign-ups Hosting providers are increasingly asking Spamhaus how they can prevent so-called "fraudulent sign-ups" -- new customers whose only intention is to spam, host malware, host botnet controllers, or engage in other activities that are forbidden by the hosting provider's acceptable use policy (AUP). Such customers normally target cheap VPS and cloud hosting with automated sign-up procedures. These customers know that their accounts will be terminated swiftly when the host becomes aware of their activities, so they usually use stolen credit cards or compromised Paypal accounts to obtain service. This allows them to hide their real identities and avoid spending their own funds. Spamhaus has received several independent reports from hosting providers that the volume of such fraudulent sign-ups has increased dramatically in the past few months. Some hosting providers report that 50% of all new subscriptions are fraudulent -- every second subscription. No hosting company is immune, neither small local operations nor large multinational hosting firms with data centers on several continents. While Spamhaus' mission is to protect internet users and organizations from spam and other cyber-threats, we lack the resources and time to act as an abuse reporting service (FBL - Feedback Loop) or a consulting company. However, we would like to do what we can to help. This article provides some tips to help hosting providers prevent fraudulent sign-ups and increase the detection rate for such sign-ups. These tips are not a solution, but should help mitigate the damage and administrative costs caused by criminals. Verify User Information First, create and implement a verification mechanism for automated sign-ups. It should verify at least some personal information from new subscriptions. For example: Customer email address (by sending an email with a confirmation link) Customer phone nu

Black hawk mines online games ouya brings back tv game console - Presentation Transcript 1. Ouya, a USD 99 TV game console projectusing Android 4.0 has made a stunning debuton the crowdfunding website Kickstarter -hitting a million dollar mark after just 8hours.The game console is slated for a March 2013release and the team behind it promise thatit will offer a flexible and open gamingenvironment that the market wants, whichwill bring back the good old days of console-TV gaming. As of now, the sleek silver andblack cube along with its equally coolcontroller are just on their prototype stage. 2. Ouya founder Julie Uhrman said, ―It's ironic,all the growth in gaming is moving to mobileplatforms, we're seeing a lot of AAAdevelopers leaving their console shops to goto mobile, yet three out of every four dollarsis still spent in the living room, a majority ofgaming time is still spent on the TV, and ifyou survey any gamer they'll tell you theirNo. 1 platform is the TV.‖ 3. Ouya is now the fastest project inKickstarter to reach the million dollarthreshold in just 8 hours of going live. Theteam has initially hoped for USD 950,000pledges in one month for the consoles to beproduced. Support for the project has beenhuge that as of the time of this writing,barely 3 days of being online, the amount ofpledges reached USD 4 million already.―We never anticipated that it would blow uplike this,‖ said the Ouya founder to BlackHawk Reviews - Online Games. 4. Hardware specs for the Ouya console include8Gb of storage, 1Gb of RAM and NVIDIA Tegra3 processor which could churn out decent 3Ddisplay at 1080 pixels. They don't soundimpressive and particularly powerful whencompared to PS3 or Xbox but it's a prettygood bargain considering the price tag.And although it runs on Android, it shouldnot be expected to be have complete touch-based interface. Ouya will have standardwireless controller that includes 8 actionbuttons, a D-pad, 2 analog sticks and atouchpad for ges

"Hosting providers are increasingly asking Spamhaus how they can prevent so-called "fraudulent sign-ups" - new customers whose only intention is to spam, host malware, host botnet controllers, or engage in other activities that are forbidden by the hosting provider's acceptable use policy (AUP). Such customers normally target cheap VPS and cloud hosting with automated sign-up procedures. These customers know that their accounts will be terminated swiftly when the host becomes aware of their activities, so they usually use stolen credit cards or compromised Paypal accounts to obtain service. This allows them to hide their real identities and avoid spending their own funds. Spamhaus has received several independent reports from hosting providers that the volume of such fraudulent sign-ups has increased dramatically in the past few months. Some hosting providers report that 50% of all new subscriptions are fraudulent - every second subscription. No hosting company is immune, neither small local operations nor large multinational hosting firms with data centers on several continents. While Spamhaus' mission is to protect internet users and organizations from spam and other cyber-threats, we lack the resources and time to act as an abuse reporting service (FBL - Feedback Loop) or a consulting company. However, we would like to do what we can to help. This article provides some tips to help hosting providers prevent fraudulent sign-ups and increase the detection rate for such sign-ups. These tips are not a solution, but should help mitigate the damage and administrative costs caused by criminals.  Verify User Information First, create and implement a verification mechanism for automated sign-ups. It should verify at least some personal information from new subscriptions. For example: Customer email address (by sending an email with a confirmation link) Customer phone number (for a mobile, by sending an SMS with a confirmation code, or for a land line, b

They really should find ways to battle fraudulent sign-ups, to be fair with their true customers.

MIT students celebrated the golden anniversary of Spacewar! - which is one of the first video games in history - by recreating it on a computer that can be handled on the palm of your hand.   Four students of MIT began creating the game Spacewar! during their free time in 1961 and finished it in February 1962. It was built on the Digital Equipment PDP-1, a computer unit around the size of an ordinary refrigerator. The game features two spaceships attempting to shoot each other down, with one of the spaceships under the control of the player.   Massachusetts' engineering students showcased their work at the museum of MIT.  This process of turning a 50-year old game to a modern one is almost likened to digital archeology.   It must be difficult to port it into a modern programming language for it is very low-level considering the time it was created. In addition to that, it used a lot of tricks specific to the machine it was first built on due to the limitations they had on the software.   The students transferred the software to the Arduino platform, a microprocessor the size of handheld gadget.   The game was not really meant for commercial purposes but only for the enjoyment of the creators. In fact, majority of Americans barely had access to a PDP-1 at that time. During the 1970′s it became a commercial success when it appeared in arcade platforms and personal gaming consoles like the Atari 2600.   This anniversary of Spacewar! came amidst the most recent sales figures of video games in the American market this month that showed a decline of millions.   According to a consumer group, sales of video games went down by 34%, despite the USD 1.14 billion sales. This is compared to sales figures of January last year. The outlook seems to be even more worse for video game consoles, sustaining a fall of 38% in sales.   Most experts are thinking that this decrease in sales is only because of the low number of new game releases. But several games did sell

MIT students celebrated the golden anniversary of Spacewar! - which is one of the first video games in history - by recreating it on a computer that can be handled on the palm of your hand. Four students of MIT began creating the game Spacewar! during their free time in 1961 and finished it in February 1962. It was built on the Digital Equipment PDP-1, a computer unit around the size of an ordinary refrigerator. The game features two spaceships attempting to shoot each other down, with one of the spaceships under the control of the player. Massachusetts' engineering students showcased their work at the museum of MIT. This process of turning a 50-year old game to a modern one is almost likened to digital archeology. It must be difficult to port it into a modern programming language for it is very low-level considering the time it was created. In addition to that, it used a lot of tricks specific to the machine it was first built on due to the limitations they had on the software. The students transferred the software to the Arduino platform, a microprocessor the size of handheld gadget. The game was not really meant for commercial purposes but only for the enjoyment of the creators. In fact, majority of Americans barely had access to a PDP-1 at that time. During the 1970′s it became a commercial success when it appeared in arcade platforms and personal gaming consoles like the Atari 2600. This anniversary of Spacewar! came amidst the most recent sales figures of video games in the American market this month that showed a decline of millions. According to a consumer group, sales of video games went down by 34%, despite the USD 1.14 billion sales. This is compared to sales figures of January last year. The outlook seems to be even more worse for video game consoles, sustaining a fall of 38% in sales. Most experts are thinking that this decrease in sales is only because of the low number of new game releases. But several games did sell well including Call of Dut

Blackhawk Bank & Trust; A Quad Cities' locally owned bank : Consumer Privacy and Protection Fraudulent Cashier's Check Notice Like many businesses, Blackhawk Bank & Trust may be the target of consumer security attacks or become the victim of the unauthorized use of our name and logo as part of a consumer fraud or identity theft crime.  It has come to our institution's attention that a cashier's check with Blackhawk Bank & Trust's logo has been distributed to persons in connection with a mystery shopper/consumer protection draw letter, instructing recipients to either "wire", "send" or "ship" money as soon as possible. BLACKHAWK BANK & TRUST HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THESE ALLEGED DRAWS, AS THEY ARE FRAUDULENT.  If you have received any material purporting to be in connection with Blackhawk Bank & Trust and have questions about its authenticity, please contact any of our locations.To view a list of our locations and phone numbers, click here. If the suspected fraud was received via mail, you are encouraged to file a claim of Mail Fraud with the United States Postal Inspection Service at 1-877-876-2455 or visit their website at https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/ . You are also encouraged to contact your local or state law enforcement office on issues involving fraud. Consumer Privacy and Protection Identity theft, fraud, and online attacks unfortunately have become a risk of everyday business. We at Blackhawk Bank & Trust are doing everything we can to protect you from becoming a victim. In addition to using technology, policies, and procedures, we feel that knowledge is power. Our goal is to enable you the customer to protect yourself by learning how your identity can be attacked, how to identify such attacks, and how to protect yourself against those attacks. Use the links on the right to learn more about a variety of threats, how to protect yourself from them, and what to do if you feel you have become a victim. Check out the tips below

henrichfritz: How to Black Hawk Online Games:Norway Terrorist Admits to Online Game Addiction http://www.wikihow.com/Black-Hawk-Online-Games:Norway-Terrorist-Admits-to-Online-Game-Addiction  Authorities have discovered computer logs that show Breivik has spent 8,700 hours playing war games from 2006 to 2010. In fact, records show that he played 500 hours of World of Warcraft between November 2010-April 2011 alone. Aside from playing WoW, Breivik was also into Elder Scrolls, Modern Warfare, Warhammer and Dragon Age. According to him, he spent all his time playing in the months prior to his July 22 attacks. Ads by Google Brain Training Games  Improve memory with scientifically designed brain exercises. www.lumosity.com 2 Breivik started playing WoW in 2006 and authorities are inclined to believe that he played the game for up to 12 hours per day in a 2-year period. It should also be noted that he used terms from the game in the 'manifesto' he wrote. According to Breivik, playing war games was only to hide his terrorist plans. He added that he devoted almost one year in playing games to reward himself. 3 Now, police are trying to investigate if Breivik has been in touch with other gamers or if he belongs to a player group through obtaining information from game manufacturers. This is because certain information show that he has been logged onto 2 computer units at the same time - Breivik might have paid others to play on behalf of him. 4 WoW is the most popular role-playing game in the world, boasting of over 10 million registered users (70,000 of which are in Norway). People are now anxious to know what possible factors could have affected Breivik and twisted his mindset because experts have already warned of the possible damaging effects from spending much time on playing computer games. 5 On Friday, the court ordered that Breivik be placed under psychiatric observation to know his mental state prior to the start of trials. 6 During the last part of 2011, a

Two major features of Microsoft's next-generation console are dropped by the company. These are regular online authenticity checks required to play video games offline and restrictions on what players can do with games after purchase. Microsoft says, in an update issued Wednesday, the shift in Xbox One policy stems from consumer feedback. "While we believe that the majority of people will play games online and access the cloud for both games and entertainment, we will give consumers the choice of both physical and digital content," Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's Interactive entertainment business, said in a statement. "We have listened and we have heard loud and clear from your feedback that you want the best of both worlds." The Microsoft statement says no internet connection will be required to play any Xbox One game. Also, avenues for trading, renting, lending or selling purchased games will remain as they are today with the Xbox 360. Microsoft outlined how its Xbox One would function when it launches this November for $499; this move marks a full turn for Microsoft from several weeks ago. In earlier statements, Microsoft said users would have to check in online every 24 hours to play any games offline. Microsoft also planned the inability to rent or lend games at launch as limits to how games were used. Sony, a well-known rival will be launching its PlayStation 4 this holiday, the options provoked harsh criticism from them. Sony Computer Entertainment of America President Jack Tretton emphatically proclaimed during a press conference at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo that the PS4 would not restrict games or require routine online checks. "You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc," Mattrick said. "The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you." Nonetheless, the Family option to share a games library with as many as 10 other people

No wonder Xbox series are popular!

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Ouya, a USD 99 TV game console project using Android 4.0 has made a stunning debut on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter - hitting a million dollar mark after just 8 hours. The game console is slated for a March 2013 release and the team behind it promise that it will offer a flexible and open gaming environment that the market wants, which will bring back the good old days of console-TV gaming. As of now, the sleek silver and black cube along with its equally cool controller are just on their prototype stage. Ouya founder Julie Uhrman said, "It's ironic, all the growth in gaming is moving to mobile platforms, we're seeing a lot of AAA developers leaving their console shops to go to mobile, yet three out of every four dollars is still spent in the living room, a majority of gaming time is still spent on the TV, and if you survey any gamer they'll tell you their No. 1 platform is the TV." Ouya is now the fastest project in Kickstarter to reach the million dollar threshold in just 8 hours of going live. The team has initially hoped for USD 950,000 pledges in one month for the consoles to be produced. Support for the project has been huge that as of the time of this writing, barely 3 days of being online, the amount of pledges reached USD 4 million already. "We never anticipated that it would blow up like this," said the Ouya founder to Black Hawk Reviews - Online Games.

http://blackhawkmines-online.com/2013/05/08/black-hawk-online-games-practical-steps-for-parents-to-protect-their-children-when-playing-online-games/ Parents can succeed in raising children regardless of the countless challenges in doing so today. Parents should to be particularly watchful regarding the ever popular and more often addictive online games. Undeniably, these can be a marvelous source of amusement and even learning for the family. Playing online games at times renders players to inappropriate content, language and behavior. And no parent would want their children to face such things. Thus, you can take some sensible steps to guard your child. Some of these steps are the following: Mute Numerous online games include a chat board to allow players to interact with each other. These games also comprise a mute button so that you can immobilize the chats while playing the game. You can apply this to stop unfamiliar persons from talking with your child. Block Your kid can be uncovered to out of place language or behavior while playing online games by chatting with strangers. A lot of games these days contain an element that facilitates you to block out strangers from playing with your child. You can as well make a list of all the people you permit your child to play with for example friends and family. Monitor Lots of children adore playing flash games with strangers online for the reason that they want to face up to as many players as they can. Regrettably, this may expose them to peculiar characters. Consequently, several games let parents to gain access to their children's account and access details of their last game counting whom they played with. If parents keep supervising their children, they will be able to conclude who to block and whom their kids can play with. Report Being a parent it is your responsibility to speak up when you become aware of a particular player is behaving in an unsuitable behavior. You should inform the publisher

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BLACK HAWK REVIEWS - ONLINE GAMES: SPACEWAR! REMAKE AFTER 50 YEARS // Current TV 2012-05-12T07:51:18Z "MIT students celebrated the golden anniversary of Spacewar! - which is one of the first video games in history - by recreating it on a computer that can be handled on the palm of your hand. Four students of MIT began creating the game Spacewar! during their free time in 1961 and finished it in February 1962. It was built on the Digital Equipment PDP-1, a computer unit around the size of an ordinary refrigerator. The game features two spaceships attempting to shoot each other down, with one of the spaceships under the control of the player. Massachusetts' engineering students showcased their work at the museum of MIT. This process of turning a 50-year old game to a modern one is almost likened to digital archeology. It must be difficult to port it into a modern programming language for it is very low-level considering the time it was created. In addition to that, it used a lot of tricks specific to the machine it was first built on due to the limitations they had on the software. " Posted by henrichfritz and 1 other to uploaded on Sat May 12 2012 Reviews - Online Games Black Hawk Mines - Zimbio 2012-05-12T07:51:18Z "Overview Black Hawk Reviews - Online Games has your back covered when it comes to online gaming - from all sorts of multi-player online games to offline ones. Our constantly updated Blog features game reviews, console updates and latest installments (and cheats, when we feel extra generous). " Posted by henrichfritz to uploaded on Sat May 12 2012 black hawk mines online games | Tumblr 2012-05-12T07:51:18Z "nikelhawk: Blackhawk Bank & Trust; A Quad Cities' locally owned bank : Consumer Privacy and Protection Fraudulent Cashier's Check Notice Like many businesses, Blackhawk Bank & Trust may be the target of consumer security attacks or become the victim of the unauthorized use of our name and logo as part of a consumer fraud or identity

Black Hawk Mines Online Games - Professionals de-stress from online games http://blackhawkmines-online.com/2013/11/26/black-hawk-mines-online-games-professionals-de-stress-from-online-games/ Singh's is just one of the mushrooming cases of online game addiction - a trend that according to psychologists it is a good stress buster, if not overdone. An example is, in a surroundings like our busy streets and cities, where concrete buildings leave barely any space for trees, now there is this Farmville on social networking site Facebook that offers the chance to have a sprawling farm and grow exotic vegetables. It was just like in real life, you must plough the field, water your plants and manure them just like you would in a natural farm. "Call it whatever, but I find Farmville extremely relaxing. I grow carrots, cauliflowers, brinjals and even have some farm animals like cattle and hens! Somehow, moving away from the gruelling schedule of working endlessly on the computer and then driving through traffic jams, this is a perfect breakaway," Singh told IANS. Ginni Bajaj, another young professional, said: "Every now and then, between my work, I go online and play a game of scrabble or Farmville. It acts as a good stress buster or boredom slayer and I can re-focus on my work better after that." "Many times my friends, who are online, also join me in the game," she added. For lack of space for physical activity or otherwise, kids too love playing online games. Ten-year-old Vansh Batra said: "I love playing online games and since my summer vacations are on, I have ample time. At times my dad joins me after getting back from work." According to Deepali Batra, clinical psychologist at Batra Hospital, online games act as good stress busters and are advised for professionals who have long and gruelling work hours. "Whenever we hold stress management workshops, we advise professionals to take a short break and play some online games. This can improve their focus and outp

Black Hawk Mines Online Games More than 1.2 billion people are playing games http://reviews.blackhawkmines-online.com/2013/12/05/black-hawk-mines-online-games-more-than-1-2-billion-people-are-playing-games/ According to a state of the industry report by Spil GamesMore than 1.2 billion people are playing games worldwide. comScore data cited by Spil Games says, of those, about 700 million play online games. That amounts to 44 percent of the world's online population. "Many people don't know how big gaming is," said Oscar Diele, chief marketing officer at Spil Games, a maker of online and mobile games that are mostly targeted at girls. "Gaming is a huge part of people's online activities. It's really mainstream, crossing age and gender boundaries." It mashed the data together in a 17-page report that Netherlands-based Spil Games collected research from a variety of sources, including Newzoo, World Population Clock, comScore, eMarketer, Goo Technologies, PopCap, Cisco, SpotXchange, Brightroll, and Akamai. Spil Games an untapped market reaches itself to lots of girls, counting up to more than 50 million girls through its websites for both online games based on Adobe's Flash format as well as multiplatform mobile titles based on HTML5. Diele said in an interview with GamesBeat that developers should make their offerings like TV shows, with cliffhanger moments that keep the audience engaged. He also said that advertisers should start to spend more on video ads within games. "Not a lot of data is available, and that's why advertisers don't spend as much as they should targeting gamers," Diele said. The majority of Spil Games' revenue comes from ads. The data demonstrates that 46 percent of gamers are women and 54 percent are men. And such top categories for boys and men are racing, sports, and action games while for women the top categories for are puzzle, quiz, word, matching, and mahjong games. And the top categories for girls are cooking, dre

http://reviews.blackhawkmines-online.com/2013/05/10/gamer-proposes-with-four-hour-role-playing-game-with-this-game-i-thee-wed/ There have been many various wedding proposals prepared via video game modifications. Here is another whole new level of proposal, actually building a game from scratch for the sole purpose of asking for someone's hand. That's a new level altogether, romantic indeed. Marchaka, a Redditor, has a pretty ideal girlfriend a gamer would want to have in Michele, as the two shares a serious love of video games. That made him think and got then wheels on his head thinking when he decided to pop the question. Marchaka used VX Ace a $70 role-playing game maker and then he built Michele's Quest. Michele's Quest is a Final Fantasy-style title that consists of four acts and four boss battles. After successfully completing each act, the player, Michele, Marchaka's girlfriend, is rewarded with an image showing the location of a real-world key. Sitting next to the computer Michele played on was a chest with four locks. When she arrive at the fourth was unlocked, there was a note reading "turn around," where she saw Marchaka on bended knee with the ring. Not to any surprise, she said "yes." Marchaka has only little programming experience. It took him over 160 hours to build the game, which is filled with in-jokes, humor and loads of video game references. And lest you think Marchaka spent the four hours, it took Michele to complete the game standing over her shoulder. He even managed to plan ahead for that unforeseen event as well. "We had some guests over and so I tried to downplay it by cooking a big dinner for everyone," he said. "I spent most of my time in the kitchen but how the place is designed I can see the computer from there. The guests pulled up chairs next to her and chimed in with commentary and jokes…took any tension out of it until the big moment." Marchaka's proposal has resemblance and can make you think back to Gary Hudston's

BLACK HAWK REVIEWS - ONLINE GAMES: SPACEWAR! REMAKE AFTER 50 YEARS MIT students celebrated the golden anniversary of Spacewar! - which is one of the first video games in history - by recreating it on a computer that can be handled on the palm of your hand. Four students of MIT began creating the game Spacewar! during their free time in 1961 and finished it in February 1962. It was built on the Digital Equipment PDP-1, a computer unit around the size of an ordinary refrigerator. The game features two spaceships attempting to shoot each other down, with one of the spaceships under the control of the player. Massachusetts' engineering students showcased their work at the museum of MIT. This process of turning a 50-year old game to a modern one is almost likened to digital archeology. It must be difficult to port it into a modern programming language for it is very low-level considering the time it was created. In addition to that, it used a lot of tricks specific to the machine it was first built on due to the limitations they had on the software. The students transferred the software to the Arduino platform, a microprocessor the size of handheld gadget. The game was not really meant for commercial purposes but only for the enjoyment of the creators. In fact, majority of Americans barely had access to a PDP-1 at that time. During the 1970′s it became a commercial success when it appeared in arcade platforms and personal gaming consoles like the Atari 2600.

Black hawk Mines Online Games tumblr http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/black-hawk-mines-online-games henrichfritz: How to Black Hawk Online Games:Norway Terrorist Admits to Online Game Addiction http://www.wikihow.com/Black-Hawk-Online-Games:Norway-Terrorist-Admits-to-Online-Game-Addiction Authorities have discovered computer logs that show Breivik has spent 8,700 hours playing war games from 2006 to 2010. In fact, records show that he played 500 hours of World of Warcraft between November 2010-April 2011 alone. Aside from playing WoW, Breivik was also into Elder Scrolls, Modern Warfare, Warhammer and Dragon Age. According to him, he spent all his time playing in the months prior to his July 22 attacks. Ads by Google Brain Training Games Improve memory with scientifically designed brain exercises. www.lumosity.com 2 Breivik started playing WoW in 2006 and authorities are inclined to believe that he played the game for up to 12 hours per day in a 2-year period. It should also be noted that he used terms from the game in the 'manifesto' he wrote. According to Breivik, playing war games was only to hide his terrorist plans. He added that he devoted almost one year in playing games to reward himself. 3 Now, police are trying to investigate if Breivik has been in touch with other gamers or if he belongs to a player group through obtaining information from game manufacturers. This is because certain information show that he has been logged onto 2 computer units at the same time - Breivik might have paid others to play on behalf of him. 4 WoW is the most popular role-playing game in the world, boasting of over 10 million registered users (70,000 of which are in Norway). People are now anxious to know what possible factors could have affected Breivik and twisted his mindset because experts have already warned of the possible damaging effects from spending much time on playing computer games.