Dictionary attacks are usually going after low hanging fruit. It’s quite common for a dictionary attack to not include the entire dictionary, but simply the most common 1000-2000 or so words that people are using in their passwords, based on leaked data. Anything at all you can do to not appear on those lists is a…

In short: networking is hard, game development is hard, and small plucky teams of new developers with over-excited marketing teams tried to move way too fast.

“We turned on a hygrometer to measure the humidity. Then we waited.” -> [End of Article]

I have so much respect for the writers not identifying as queer, and trying to write an inclusive story anyway, admitting their mistakes, and being so incredibly open about things.

I had issues even with the Wii U version of Splatoon until we upgraded our router to something significantly more beefy, and well suited for our house. Gaming over wifi is really never pleasant though, I suggest strongly picking up a USB Ethernet adapter for your Switch dock, and hard-wiring the thing. That should…

I was about to say, this is not something you can just do on the fly. I’m almost positive they recreated an approximation of the PS1's much simpler physics engine in something more modern, which means there’s going to be little differences here and there. This looks like a weird edge case with corner resolutions and…

This extension is the *sole* reason I use Firefox on Android. Sure, Chrome may be faster on paper, but Firefox doesn’t load all the obnoxious garbage; it’s faster in practice.

IANAL, so I’m really curious: what’s the justification for going after Zenimax here, and not Universal? I must assume that Zenimax / Bethesda got their publishing permissions from Universal for using the song in the first place, so it seems like the actual wrong done here was Universal’s lack of due diligence during…

Oh my! Thank you for this, these are gorgeous!

That top image is exactly why this is my favorite entry in the series. It’s been a while since I played the game, so I don’t remember the context from that scene, but I can tell that Zidane is somewhat alarmed, possibly creeped out by the eyeball structure. Garnet on the other hand is not intimidated, and walks right…

I have two guesses from those screenshots.

But will it have the return of this music??

No, it’s a fairness thing. If you get a loot box right before a special event wins, you still have your normal chance of getting event-exclusive unlocks from that box. On the flip side, you can’t stockpile loot boxes before some special event, then open them all during the event to tip the odds in your favor. For…

The change to Gyms is fantastic. It sounds so simple, but now it means that if I want to take down a Gym, rather than trying to find the one kid in my neighborhood that plays the game way too much, and therefore has a single creature strong enough to defeat the Gym, I can now attempt to track down *every body with a…

I definitely agree with the critique on NSMB Wii U being lazy; many of the level mechanics and ideas were lifted straight from earlier NSMB titles, and it felt lazy. Nintendo eventually did recover with Super Mario 3D World, which is all sorts of fantastic, but by that point I feel like they’d missed the boat. That…

I’m pleased to see a reignited focus on exploration. It was one of my favorite aspects about platformers on the N64 (Super Mario, Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64) and we seem to have lost it somewhere along the way. Open world games are fun, but most of them aren’t platformers in the traditional sense, so I’m super…

That was my thought exactly. “What player base?” Every person I know, every streamer I watch, plays the original Java version of Minecraft, often with some of its extensive mod library installed to make the game more interesting. Shader mods have been around for ages and look this good or better.

My first thought when I saw that logo: “Oh Sonic, what has SEGA done to you this time...”

I could not agree more with this sentiment. I’m against DRM as much as the next guy, but it’s for philisophical reasons, not because I actually want to pirate software. I buy my games, and then want the freedom to play them on all my machines going forward. I’ll gladly apply community patches and mods to make them…

I think Risk of Rain is a good example of both a hit and a miss. The art style does a lot with very little, and the *enemies* tend to read fairly well, but they made humans tiny on purpose to sell the atmosphere (success!) at the cost of readability. (...not so great.) Combine that with lots of particle effects…