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Monday, 22 December 2014 09:05
Dead Kings DLC Removes your right to Sue Ubisoft over AC Unity Issues
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember how Ubisoft offered that free game to everyone that had issues with AC Unity? Well despite many people thinking that this was to make things right it was really all about making sure that Ubisoft did not end up…
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Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:50
Leaked Sony Emails are Both Funny and Sad...
Written by Sean Kalinich
If we have said it once, we have said it a thousand times, there is no such thing as a secure network or system. This is especially true when the network is, by design, intended to deal with external user…
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Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:13
Assassin’s Creed Unity Patch 4 is broken all on its own.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Just when you thought it could not get any worse for Ubisoft it turns out that the patch they designed to fix all of the broken stuff is also sort of broken. According to a post on the Assassin’s Creed…
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Friday, 12 December 2014 15:32
Microsoft Promises to Renew PC Gaming Focus With Windows 10
Written by Sean Kalinich
With the launch of Windows 8 the gaming world was a tad shaken up. It seems that Microsoft was abandoning the PC gamer in favor of their own console. Everything about Windows 8 seemed designed to push the Xbox as…
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Monday, 08 December 2014 09:50
Judge Posner says the NSA should have unfettered access to your data
Written by Sean Kalinich
It would seem that some in the judicial branch of the US government feel that privacy is not really about protecting citizens from unjustified surveillance. They also do not seem to have any fear of the US becoming a place…
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Monday, 08 December 2014 06:53
2k Games Confirms Bioshock Infinite Coming to Linux
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ever since the announcement of Windows 8 there has been a renewed push for gaming on Linux. We saw one game developer even go so far as to make their own semi-customized flavor of Linux in the form of the…
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Wednesday, 26 November 2014 11:44
Ubisoft to delay review copies of The Crew until launch day... here we go again
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ubisoft is at it again with an announcement that they will delay review copies of the game The Crew until launch day. Their justification for this is that there is no way to properly test the game with such a…
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Monday, 24 November 2014 10:30
Job Listings Show Up on Irrational Games' Website... Let's Hope they are Real **Update**
Written by Sean Kalinich
One sad thing about the gaming world is the far too many great development studios seem to fade away and be absorbed by the big companies. If you look at the past we can see this repeated over and over…
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Monday, 24 November 2014 09:46
Microsoft and Sony Say Derp Hack Claims are a Hoax.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Hey remember the group that launched the DDoS attack on Steam? Well they are back and have decided to make a little bit bigger of a statement than just throwing packets at a group of servers. This time they appear…
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Thursday, 20 November 2014 10:23
Ubisoft Tries to Slam Pirates by leaving out the FOV slider in Far Cry 4... Too bad it seems to have Backfired
Written by Sean Kalinich
The idea of hardcoding a flaw into a game to identify pirate is a pretty old one and one that has been used on more than one occasion. Ubisoft has done this with their most recent game Far Cry 4…
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Wednesday, 19 November 2014 10:17
11 Bit Studios Offers Free Steam Codes on The Pirate Bay
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a misconception in the industry as a whole that “pirates” are inherently evil people and bent on nothing less than the destruction of civilized society. The fact that this sounds like the plot from a bad movie/game is…
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Tuesday, 18 November 2014 16:28
Ubisoft desperately searching for someone to blame over AC Unity, but this one is all on them
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that Ubisoft is trying to get out from under the stigma the bad launch of Assassin’s Creed Unity. After pushing what many are calling a half-baked game, they have made a few excuses and have also promised different…
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Tuesday, 18 November 2014 06:57
TOR users tracked using Flow records with 81% accuracy
Written by Sean Kalinich
Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the internet privately. Although we have maintained that TOR has never been the end-all of anonymity we are surprised to finally see public conformation of techniques that have been…
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Monday, 10 November 2014 10:03
Darkhotel Attack Targets Hotel Guest Wireless Networks
Written by Sean Kalinich
The targeting of travelers is something that is a very old idea. To the would-be attacker you are getting a target that is not familiar with their surroundings and (in many cases) has a lot of money on them. In…
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Thursday, 06 November 2014 15:52
Domain Name Registrars can be held liable for Copyright Infringement...
Written by Sean Kalinich
In one of the dumbest moves I have seen a court make in some time it is now possible for a copyright holder to go after the company that registered a domain name if that name is used for piracy.…
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Wednesday, 05 November 2014 06:59
Flaw Found in Visa's New Chip-N-PIN System Allowing a Simple Bump to Steal One Million Dollars
Written by Sean Kalinich
It would seem that even the next generation of “secure” payment systems are showing up with flaws before they really hit the streets. According to security researchers there is a flaw in the next generation of electronic payments dubbed chip-n-PIN.…
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