Category: video games
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Steam Website Leaking User Information
The Steam website was completely broken for several hours today. Attempting to load any page on the site would give you another user’s version of that page including any personal details. This was also happening in the desktop client. Users on several sites produced screenshots that included blacked-out versions of pages that had other users’…
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James Davenport Interviews R6 Siege’s Cleany Gunhands
Cleany Gunhands: Hey there. Yeah, thanks for having me. My name is Cleany Gunhands, and I love to clean, but I also have guns for hands instead of regular human hands for hands. I’m stuck in a scary digital hell dimension where I’m thrown into a very messy house or cafe or something and, like,…
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Video Footage of id Software’s Super Mario Bros. 3 Clone
John Romero posted this video today to Vimeo in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Commander Keen. it’s the first publicly available footage of the Super Mario Bros. 3 demo that id software pitched to Nintendo. You might have heard about it from the David Kushner’s Masters of Doom book (Amazon, iBooks, Wikipedia) which is well…
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Playstation 4’s PS2 Emulator Disappointment
A few weeks ago there was a rumor that Sony would soon announce some kind of software support for the Playstation 4 to emulate the Playstation 2. It would be a nice favor to players since Sony very quickly dropped Playstation 2 compatibility from the Playstation 3 in order to lower the price of that…
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Bad Customers Don’t Make Good Curators
If you owned a retail store, would you let a customer start cursing and yelling at your customers or would you kick that customer out? Steam’s curator program was implemented a little over a year ago. This program allowed individuals and groups of users to put together a selection of recommendations with a brief text…