Star Wars Battlefront is a game reminiscent of the era before multiplayer games became weighed down by extraneous features and superfluous content. While it lacks a lot of the gilding we’ve come to expect from competitive shooters, this focus on the c…
Author: Nate Church
‘Fallout 4′ Review: Bethesda Never Changes
For a game about the gradual rebuilding of society after its cataclysmic end, Fallout 4 manages to be primitive and unfinished in all the wrong ways.
‘Fallout 4′ Surpasses ‘Black Ops III’ as Biggest Media Release of the Year
Fallout 4 just blew the vault door wide open with the biggest entertainment launch in any medium this year.
Manhattan District Attorney Wants Back Door Privileges (To Your Phone)
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. is trying to convince Congress that the right way to fight crime is to eliminate privacy altogether. It’s not a new argument, but it has all of the staying power that bad ideas from powerful people tend to …
Green Man Gaming to Disclose Source of PC Game Download Codes to Customers
Green Man Gaming is going to start telling you exactly what you’ll get for your money, after being called out on grey market business practices by the Game Deals subreddit.
Batman Re-Re-Returns? Existing ‘Arkham Knight’ User Reviews Branded as ‘Pre-Release’ *UPDATE* Reviews Back to Normal
Shortly after reporting on the mysterious labeling of reviews as “pre-release”, someone has taken an economy-sized barrel of bleach to Steam’s Batman: Arkham Knight page. The “pre-release review” tags have vanished into the darkness, and I’m left wond…
‘Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’ Review: London Falling
Assassins Creed Syndicate is a game without purpose. It abandons the self-serious tone of previous titles, but in doing so also loses much of its intensity. Despite a few promising developments, this franchise continues to evoke a sense of emptiness a…
Congress Now Examining StingRay Phone Tracking Gear
Last week we reported on the investigation by Senators Chuck Grassley and Patrick Leahy into potential IRS abuse of “StingRay” cell site simulation devices. Now Congress is getting in on the action. Following an investigation by the Guardian, a bill has been introduced in Congress intended to restrain and control the use of the sophisticated surveillance gear in question. The IRS is the thirteenth government organization to have been found utilizing cell site simulation to pull data from cell phones. The ACLU further lists at least fifty local police departments that employ the tactic. In April, the Guardian also uncovered a non-disclosure agreement that the FBI required law enforcement to sign. In many cases, lawyers were forced to throw cases completely, rather than reveal the method whereby they attained evidence. But when Jason Chaffetz and the House Oversight Committee got involved, things began screeching to an unceremonious halt. A bipartisan letter was sent to John Koskinen that demanded documents detailing the agency’s guidelines, policies, and information regarding their use of the devices. Following that, the Senate began their own inquiry. Chaffetz introduced a bill to the House on Monday that would make it illegal for StingRay technology to be deployed without a warrant. Thus
Gaming Celebrates Halloween
It’s All Hallow’s Eve, and no one celebrates quite like a horde of soon-to-be-dismembered polygons. Every year, developers roll out Halloween events for some of the biggest games. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the best.
Watch Your Back: ‘Hitman’ Gives Agent 47 a New Lease on Death
Io-Interactive is getting ready to reboot Hitman, its most iconic franchise, except it isn’t really a reboot.