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PC Gaming Alliance Talks Sense on Piracy Issues
In the current environment, game publishers seem perfectly willing to push their customers around, especially when it comes to gaming on the PC.That's why - as a long time PC gamer - the more I hear...
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PlayStation 4 Might Live Inside Your PC (and other wisdom from PCGA's Randy...
As a gamer who made his bones on the PC, one of the most encouraging developments of 2008 has been the launch of the PC Gaming Alliance, an association comprised of companies with a stake in the...
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PCGA's Randy Stude: Piracy Helped PC Game Biz Grow
Since it is Valentine's Day, I will admit that here at GamePolitics we heart Randy Stude (uh, that's in a manly, want-him-on-our-side-in-team-deathmatch sort of way).The president of the PC Gaming...
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Valve's Gabe Newell Disses DRM in DICE Keynote
Valve founder Gabe Newell did some outside-the-box musing during his DICE Summit keynote, reports Stephen Totilo of MTV Multiplayer.Among other topics, Newell ripped DRM for games:Newell believes that...
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Microsoft Exec: Used Game Trades Are Part of Gaming Ecosystem
The great debate over used game trades rages on... Sure, GameStop execs support used game trades; it's a huge piece of their business model.But it's especially nice to see a member of the game...
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Seven People Hold the Keys to the Internet, Literally
In the event a cyber attack cripples the World Wide Web, seven members of a “chain of trust” have been given the responsibility of restarting the Internet, with each individual armed with a key.The key...
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Rumor: Sony Planning to Use Serial Codes on Future PS3 Game Releases
Dutch website PS3-Sense claims that "a reliable source" has told them that all future PS3 game discs will contain a unique serial code that players will have to input into the system prior to launch....
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Hacker Helps Fix RIFT
Not all hackers are out to destroy the universe. Recently, a "white hat" hacker going by the nickname "ManWitDaPlan" helped developer Trion Worlds fix a serious security hole in its massively...
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Report: Security Hole Found in Ubisoft's DRM Scheme
Update: The BBC is reporting that Ubisoft has rushed to patch the exploit unearthed by a Google engineer in its Uplay DRM. The company also issued instructions for Uplay users:"We recommend that all...
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Ubisoft Denies Existence of Rootkit in UPlay
Ubisoft calls yesterday's story about a rootkit being found in Uplay false and blames "a coding error" for the security hole. Ubisoft denied the whole "rootkit" angle altogether. After quickly patching...
View ArticleGoogle Anti-Abuse Research Head Hacks 'Hearthstone,' But Keeps Code to Himself
Back in August, Elie Bursztein, the man in charge of Google's anti-abuse research team, detailed how he developed a tool to exploit Blizzard's popular collectible trading card game, Hearthstone....
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