Goddammit, Mike.

yeah, Sony’s brought their A game to security with the PS4. While it hasn’t made it impossible to hack or mod, it’s made it... very difficult to keep modded PS4s updated and online.

I don’t think a Blu-Ray vuln has been discovered (yet); PS4 exploits take a particular set of skills with maybe a dozen modders capable of…

the holy grail of ps4 entrypoints isn’t a Bluray entrypoint, but remote code execution via media decoder, which would allow visiting a webpage to launch ps4hen.

> PS2

Ad revenue crashed inndustey wide back in in... February? The Herb had doubled ads on sites last november, and had, for two weeks in June 2019, forced all sites to run an autoplay video ad with sound on by default.

Good.

There is no place for abusers in the gaming community. I’m glad Twitch is taking action, long delayed though it has been.

pictured: Jim “Herb” Spanfeller, Jim “NotSo” Rich, and Angela “The Executioner” Persuad, in an executive meeting.

The Herb is really trying to turn G/O media into 2005 Forbes.com but worse, huh.

The Games With Gold lineup is pretty... good? I already own Saint’s Row 2 on PC but the multiplayer on Xbox was better, just sayin’. Arguably, SR2 had the best story campaign of open world titles in the 2000s.

other IGN survivor stories:

if any of this sounds familiar, that’s because it is:

I’m aware that Kotaku staff are currently working on a full article, and look forward to reading it. Because the comment section kept asking for it, here’s a quick summary of the IGN story so far:
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i have no words except to say that i see you, i believe, and i support you.

Love it. Hope the legal team at Ubisoft issues a license so the game can continue to be updated and experienced for generations to come.

Booting abusers and scumbags from companies and industry is not, as some users in the comment section cry, “american silliness” or “witch hunting”: It’s a matter of protecting workers and creating a safe workplace environment. For far too long, men in the industry have enabled or turned a blind eye to abusers. In…

get outta here with that “oh silly american” bullshit.

It isn’t a matter of “silly americans”, it’s a matter of not allowing assholes to abuse others in your workplace and industry. Scumbags should, at every opportunity, be shown the door. It’s in the best interests of worker safety and the company to, say, sever ties…

The account you’re currently posting from is an older account, one that doesn’t appear to have ever been a featured account or un-greyed (that is, followed by staff using the Kotaku account). Seems like it sat dormant for... six years.

Jim Spanfeller is a Herb. This much is evident. In his rush to stripmine as much short-term profit from the survivors of his last culling, Spanfeller has signed the death warrant of all.

Melee was my jam and I still bust it out in special game nights for wild party fun. Glad the competitive Melee community can enjoy an even better remote experience.

The irregulars in the comment section (“pending approval”) and one-off account posters seem to have completely missed the point of the essay. They probably skipped it. Always a rush of fools dashing for the boot polish.