Another trick is to hack the game itself.

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The game is a hack-and-slash action-RPG with a full range of customizations available to players.

FORBES: Connect

We had high-profile hacks hit major and popular video game networks like the hack that took the PlayStation Network offline for almost a month.

FORBES: Is There More Actual Hacking or More Reporting of Hacking?

Users on the Sony Online Entertainment network - another affected by the hack - will receive their own package of 45 days of game time as well as in-game currency.

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The hack-and-slash action-RPG is not my game of choice.

FORBES: The Bad

Microsoft survived the Red Ring, Sony has pulled through the hack and Nintendo is combating a far greater foe, irrelevancy, but all in all it looks like the video game union is fairly strong.

FORBES: Sony Brings PSN Online At Last