It seems as though some of the file uploading and sharing sites are either stopping their ability so share completely (as FileSonic and Fileshare have) or instead have chosen to just block people from the US from using their site. Funny thing is, this seems to be the solution.  Why not just block all the sites from America and let them have their silly laws to themselves.  This will probably be the last resort, but it’s better...

I have discussed at length the facts surrounding DRM - It offers nothing to gamers and only hurts the legitimate consumers being the biggest.  Lately Gabe Newell from Valve has stated that ‘Piracy is a service problem’ and now Fred Wester, CEO of Paradox (the people that brought you Magicka!) has reiterated these thoughts and has gone so far as to call DRM a ‘waste of money’. “I’m surprised that people...

Just yesterday one of my friends and I were discussing what we think Blizzard could/would announce at this years Blizzcon.  Surely the World of Warcraft expansion ‘Mists of Pandaria would have to have been released by then.  Diablo 3 would most certainly have been released and would not be gearing up for an expansion by that time.  Heart of the Swarm, the next installment in the Starcraft 2 franchise, should be released prior to...

Following up on my previous post regarding mechanical keyboards and the Das Keyboard I have been using the XArmor U9 from ione at work for the past month and I am really enjoying it, although it is a bit different than the Das Keyboard. The U9 uses the same mechanical switch technology developed by Cherry that is used in the Das Keyboard that I had recently purchased but the U9 uses the Cherry MX Brown switches while the Das Keyboard...

Gabe Newell, the CEO and co-founder of Valve is a god to gamers.  A shining light for all that is still pristine and undamaged by greed and DRM.  Lately he was quoted by The Cambridge Student as saying: “Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.  If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, puchasable from the convenience of your personal computer and the legal provider says the product is...

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Remember back in the day when windows would detect hardware changes and assume that you were a dirty pirate and then use up one of you installations of XP?  Somebody at Ubisoft obviously didn’t learn any lessons watching this happen to Microsoft and the publisher is now doing the same with with games. This didn’t work for XP for several reasons, the biggest of which that bothered me was that due to Vista taking an absurdly long...