ShovelWare: Games that should have been MiniGames

Shovelware refers to a certain kind of small, quickly made game that’s there purely to [...]

Risks to Your Machine In Public

  1) Public Wifi If you’ve been online in the past few years, you’ve likely [...]

What’s the Deal with NFTs?

Is it Bad for the Environment?   Well – that’s complicated. Blockchain technology already takes [...]

Sony and DRM: Anti-Pirating Done Wrong

In 2005, an organization had been covertly installing a program similar to a rootkit onto [...]

Pre-Ordering: A Recipe for Disaster

  You’ve likely seen it hit the news: a game available for pre-order has disappointed [...]

How to Make a Bad Password

  There are many ways to make good passwords.   How do you make a [...]

Piracy: Don’t Do It

Piracy is a crime. Don’t pirate things. They’re serious about it. I’m not just being [...]

Are Newsletter Signups Dangerous to Journalism?

Hear me out here. (I don’t have stats, so this is purely an opinion piece [...]

ARGs: What Are They?

ARG stands for Alternate Reality Game. It is what it sounds like: the game’s creator [...]

Codebreaking – AI vs. The Zodiac Killer

The Zodiac Killer’s cipher spent years unbroken. Misspellings and mistakes within his own system made [...]