“KeyGens” have been a staple of the piracy market since forever, but it is more unusual for this sort of thing. It’s come up with things like the Halo and CoD Mtn Dew codes, stuff like Coke rewards, etc., but the lower the value of a product the sillier it looks to have anyone not just buy the actual product. Even if…

In the future we can not at least point to this and say “hey, look! Someone did pull their product when it was busted and faced a growing backlash!” (I’m mostingly looking at you, Microsoft, for the MCC)

It’s not “free”. It’s “free to play”. There’s a substantial difference that people seem to conveniently forget. The idea of these illegal mods is to allow players to use all game features without paying for the ones that, well, are meant to be. They’re taking code someone else owns and redistributing it without…

Screw you to hell, Chicago's Circle Interchange.

Note that this isn't a problem with the way my city is designed. There are enough big roads, bridges and alternate routes to service a city of millions here, let alone one with a population of under 100,000. I have parts of the city with a fire station or cemetery on every street corner, and as absurd as that is,…

Sometimes, Even Swatters Grow A Conscience

You can see #51 go for the sidearm takedown at 0:20, presumably to try to put in the STF after the bell where the refs would be helpless to intervene.

I'd replace "game performing poorly in marketplace" with "game performs well in marketplace". This goes on and on and gets worse every year because millions of people buy the horribly broken games despite being horribly broken. MCC and AC:U are this year's examples of how, as idiot consumers, we're exasserbating the…

This will never have any sort of closure, ever, so long as that Black And White mentality remains. Followers literally exist in their own specific reality void of any logic or understanding of what's happening in the world. Big, big media outlets of all types have put out scathing pieces in the past week (including…

I've been trying reeeeeeeeally hard this weekend to forget they're in Russia. My brain is constantly pushing me to think this is actually some bizarro Valencia street circuit that's not boring as hell, plus a little splash of Korea (that is also somehow not boring as hell).

It's cute that you think people can only be duped once in politics. No, really, it is. I wish it were that simple.

Clicked expecting an opinion piece on the recent "ParityGate", as that's quite a nasty spot for Ubisoft to be stuck in. Was first disappointed but ended up sort of creeped out about how a company with that many people on staff shuffles them around. Also the headline banner pic. Freaking adorable!

GTAV gutted a lot of features people had grown to expect in the series.

Though I didn't go through with it in this kind of insane detail in GTAO, I always do storyline runs in the GTA games to see how few people I need to kill to minimally finish it. V was a total disaster with the number running up around 1000. Ended with 11xx in the end if I recall. The majority of the kills were with…

Hey now! We all know it's because they couldn't spare the time and labor.

Wait... By default you have to leave off a rule which is one of the fundamental principles of the game being played? Nice. I expect an option in the next Madden to dribble the ball for yardage, EA!

Oh god. Oh god, someone call an ambulance please.

Then, suddenly, you're in the Italian Riviera and there's a McLaren P1 on your right and a LaFerrari ahead of you. As you twist down the two-lane highway there are fireworks in the distance. You're at the Horizon Festival. And then it dawns on you that you're not an autojournalist, you're something far worse. You're a…

Hey now! No need to put down the greatest baseball game ever!

In the US, yes, but in the rest of the world they're getting murdered (for lack of a better term) to the tune of a 2:1 to 4:1 ratio depending on the country.