Nuclear Monster

  • Valve Games Were Vulnerable to Software Exploits When Your Character Died

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    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…

  • Telling Lies

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    Sam Barlow of the incredible Her Story FMV game is working on something new, it’s called Telling Lies. Todd Spangler has the exclusive over at Variety: “Telling Lies” is a “spiritual follow-up” to “Her Story,” he said, but will have a completely new story with more characters and locations. Shooting will likely begin at the…

  • Indie Video Game Stores in 2017

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    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…

  • The Best iPad

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    Before this year’s WWDC, and especially before the iPad Cheap was revealed, Apple’s lineup of iPads was super confusing. Which was the “best” depending very much on which iPad features you valued more than others, but it wasn’t clear at all if you went down the lineup. New readers may notice that I round the…

  • This Play Has Everything

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      Speaking of monkeys, Jesse David Fox has a great interview with some of the people behind the fantastic Planet of the Apes musical episode from way back in the Simpsons’ 7th season. The Simpsons’ musical composer, Alf Clausen, discusses how he tries to bring some seriousness to the show: I hearken back to something that…