Did you even read the last paragraph of the article?

These are achievements, not free cookies. A good set of achievements should have some achievements that are easy, some that are fair, some that are challenging, and some that are batsh*t insane or take a monstrous amount of time. That way you cater to all sorts of gamer types and can provide goals for all kinds of…

By PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance standards, CVV codes are prohibited from being stored on any computers by any merchants. I'm just going to assume that Sony would follow the industry requirements, and therefore it is impossible for anyone to have obtained these codes. This can be further confirmed by the fact…

I'm an avid fantasy reader and any series that goes longer than 4 books I approach with much caution. In my experience the most popular ones always start off GREAT but then there's always some point where they just start getting bloated and almost tedious (Wheel of Time, I'm looking at you). Song of Ice and Fire,…

Yes, that is right. Properly implementing SSL means that EVERYTHING you send both ways will be fully, completely encrypted... and taking the step to encrypt individual parts of the conversation is ultimately unnecessary and redundant.

As a programmer who works on server software that requires secure transactions, I just want to say that it is not always necessary to directly encrypt the credit card information. The reason is that if your connection is properly encrypted by SSL, you can basically assume that everything you send will be secure to an…

I think there is way too much speculation in a very ambiguously stated quote. There is nothing in his quote that tells me that Valve will stop making single-player games. Sure, it could be interpreted as that, but it could also be interpreted as saying that from here on, their single player games will now probably…

It's kinda funny you say this, because two games developed by Valve themselves, CS and TF2 are still going quite strong now, even many many years after release (CS/CSS continually has 125K players concurrently online combined and TF2 still gets a good 20K concurrent players... both numbers being quite high enough for…

Besides Fallout 3, as mentioned already, Deus Ex and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. are both games that people can't even agree whether at the core they're shooters or RPGs.

"Salty" has been used FAR longer among sports fans. For years, at least. I'm a heavy frequenter of sports message boards and this is pretty much the STANDARD adjective for whiny/upset sports fans. Don't know what the origin of term is, but it's been around, that's for sure

The multi-tier "pre-final-bosses" along with this incredible music, Kefka himself, and the 20-something minute ending easily ranks as one of the most epic and wholly satisfying end game sequences in gaming.

Yup, Hatetris:

I would find working on such a project far FAR more interesting than working on a game featuring Generic Video Game Environment #37. In fact, it sounds really fun. As a software designer myself, the ability to exercise your creativity is one of the most rewarding things in the job.

I wish that all the people decrying Trine could try playing it co-op with buddies (i.e. buddies sitting in the same room as you, not online multiplayer). It's a COMPLETELY different game. In single player you can switch between characters at any time, which means that, in essence, only one character at any time needs…

HE... SUPLEXED... A... TRAIN!

I HATE the fact that Madden is the only NFL game available (loved 2K football), but I don't really see what the grounds are for this case. Could you sue ESPN/ABC for being the official national broadcasters of NBA games? Can you sue Reebok for being the only company who can make official NFL jerseys? Can I sue…

SSDs most certainly improve the overall PC user experience, that is unquestioned. The cost, however, is still prohibitive. It's not so much that the hundreds of dollars aren't worth it, it's more the case that those hundreds of dollars could be going towards a brand new video card or something else that directly…

Do you live near a Microcenter store? Microcenter.com has the i5-2500K for $180. If you simply bought the Mobo straight up from Newegg (or any other mobo since you're free to choose), you'd overall save yourself about $25. Only for in-store pickup if you buy online, though.

There are young gamers, teenagers and such, right now who are experiencing the magic and wonder of video games and are being completely immersed, playing their games for hours upon hours on end.

This claim of brown-and-gray monochromization of video games is overblown.