Authentication and Passwords
Origin game platform sends login and messages in plain-text
EA’s Origin game client puts customer’s security and privacy at risk. Fails to encrypt login data and direct messages exchanged between users.
Gaming
Gaming
Don’t save game progress in My Documents!
Windows has long had a My Games folder, but many games insist on saving your game-progress to My Documents instead. Game developers, please stop it!
Gaming
Forza’s social interactions with your friends’ clones are a bit creepy
Forza Drivatars are a light-AI ghost clone of your friends, and they want to race you in Forza Horizon and Motorsports. But is it a creepy experience?
Gaming
Everyone wants to know the release dates of upcoming games
Game release dates are a hot search topic. Online gaming outlets rush to produce the best garbage result to fill the niche.
Gaming
Online gaming is DRM in disguise
Nintendo is discontinuing support for games for the Nintendo Wii, and I fume over vendor lock-ins and other consumer-hostile practices in the game industry.
Gaming
Touch-typing crash-course with Typerdick
Quickly learn how to touch-type using a free browser-based game called Typerdick. It’s fun and require you to pick up the pace of your typing to progress.
Gaming
Game consoles broadcasts players’ microphones by default
I wasn’t aware modern games enabled the microphone by default, and held a little concert for an unwilling online audience.