Ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years by Zhejiang province's Songyang county court after being found guilty of defrauding more than 11,500 World of Warcraft accounts via online transactions, Zhejiang Online reports. The instigator of the group, named Chen, organised a small workspace as a base of operations for his team to flip WoW accounts. Chen and group would purchase stolen WoW accounts for approximately $1 each, gut them and sell the account's the gold and gear for roughly $3 per account. An investigation found that the group had pilfered in excess of $10,800 in profit from more than 11,500 WoW accounts. While the majority of the group were sentenced to under two years and fined around $1,000, Chen received two years in jail and fined $8,000. Hardware used for...

Deadfall Adventures developer The Farm 51 will launch its first-person shooter Get Even for next-generation consoles and Windows PC in 2015, according to the game's official website. Get Even was revealed last week during the French Game Connection conference. The game is a first-person shooter that seeks to bend the boundaries of single-player and multiplayer campaigns; players can jump into another's single-player campaign at any time and impersonate the A.I enemies. Players will also be given the opportunity to experience Get Even's story from the perspective of the title's two opposing protagonists. Gameplay for either side of the story is different and the plot will unravel through exploration and interaction with the environment, "rather than the standard usage of cutscenes and...

Top-down third-person shooter Halo: Spartan Assault is now available for Xbox One — a day earlier than its previously expected launch, according to a post on Xbox Wire. The game is available as a digital download for $14.99. Those who previously purchased Spartan Assault for Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 before Dec. 15, however, can pick it up for $4.99. Halo: Spartan Assault takes place between the events of Halo 3 and Halo 4. The game follows the rise of Commander Sarah Palmer and the beginning of the Spartan Ops program. In addition to online cooperative multiplayer, the game also features new enemies, weapons and achievements. Halo: Spartan Assault is expected to launch in January 2014 for Xbox 360; the port was originally slated for release this month.

Four unreleased local-multiplayer games are now available to select backers of Die Gute Fabrik's Kickstarter drive for Sportsfriends, the studio announced over the weekend in an email to those backers. People who backed at the $60 tier ("Super Sportsfriends") or above now have access to four games designed by friends of Die Gute Fabrik. The titles in question are Recurse (screenshot above) by Matt Parker and Lumalus; Shot Shot Shoot by Erik Svedäng; SMESPORT by Michael Brough; and Super Punchball by Dominique "Dom2D" Ferland and team. Die Gute Fabrik has also included the single-player title Miracle Adventures in 2113 by Noah Sasso, developer of the game BaraBariBall in Sportsfriends. All games are available on Mac and Windows PC, except the Windows-only SMESPORT. The backers in...

The Elder Scrolls Online's standard PvP campaigns will last about three months, with scoring rulesets to change based on player feedback after the massively multiplayer online game is released, according to a Q&A; with PvP developer Brian Wheeler on the Elitist Jerks forums. Wheeler noted that developer Zenimax has been working with a 48-hour campaign ruleset during The Elder Scrolls Online's beta testing, but this will change for the full game. Due to the campaign system's flexibility, Zenimax will be able to change and add rulesets based on player behavior and feedback. "We have the ability to make scoring changes and duration changes depending on player needs and we'll analyze how scoring goes to determine if we need alternate rulesets with different duration, scoring, but also if...