Category: video games
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Valve Games Were Vulnerable to Software Exploits When Your Character Died
The One Up Security firm, who must be very new because this is their only published research article and their domain name appears to have been registered about 8 months ago, has released information on a vulnerability that Valve patched in their Source engine back in June. It’s an amusing vulnerability because the exploitation of…
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Indie Video Game Stores in 2017
Matt Leone of Polygon has this incredibly in-depth feature on the stories of video game stores that are still operating in 2017: …we recently dug into the specific costs of running an independent game store in the U.S., and talked to more than 15 store owners and managers about the process. From telling stories of…
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Nine Inch Nails Collaborated With Llamasoft’s Jeff Minter and Twin Peaks
This is frankly insane, there’s a new video out from Nine Inch Nails and it’s got footage from Llamasoft’s Polybius. Jeff Minter is Llamasoft and he has made many other trippy and intense action arcade games, most people would know him for Tempest 2000. Although Polybius is only available on the PlayStation 4, a Windows…
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The End Is Nigh
Edmund McMillen of Super Meat Boy (I played and loved) and The Binding of Isaac fame has a new jam out, The End Is Nigh, in collaboration with his long-time collaborator Tyler Glaiel. It looks like another tough side-scroller, and it’s only available for Windows on Steam.