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Windows 10 Anniversary Update to Require TPM 2.0 Module
So apparently that's the next Big Thing Microsoft intends on doing to alienate users. Essentially on new oem machines, you will be required to have DRM baked into your PC. -
EA explains lack of campaign in Star Wars Battlefront
Over at PCGamer they have an article about the lack of a single player campaign in the latest Star Wars game. "In a recent investor broadcast, EA boss Patrick Soderlund said this was a conscious decision. They wanted to "launch the game side-by-side with the movie to get the strongest possible impact." That movie being, of course, The Force Awakens ( Read more... ) -
Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates
As we near the last 4 months of the trade-your-paid-OS-for-datamining-OS offer from Microsoft, the already intrusive upgrade nagging has become even more intrusiveNow, instead of asking you if you want to upgrade, Microsoft automatically schedules when you will be upgrading the PC. Currently you can reschedule for a different date or cancel it ( ( Read more... ) -
RWBY
I started watching RWBY today. Volume 2 to be exact, as I got the bluray/dvd combos for 2 and 3. (the dvd copies of volume 1 at the local HMV sold out last week before I could get them ( Read more... ) -
Windows 10 "Free" Lie
So you see all these new privacy invading things being added to Windows 10 as Microsoft tries to monetize their user base. Sending all manner of information back to Microsoft, forced updating (Which has already led to several rounds of computer bricking from poorly executed updates - bricking that could have been avoided if users were allowed to at ( Read more... ) -
"Crunch" Glorification
Recently, one Alex St John posted something a bit retarded. He basically tried to make "crunch" time in the video game industry - you know, where programmers/developers are expected to work 80+ hour weeks for months (all that overtime being unpaid mind you) in order to get games out the door "on schedule" - look like something positive ( Read more... ) -
Copyright != Trademark
And Vice Versa. The problem with so many people (especially corporations and others that know the difference) with using "Intellectual Property" as a catchall term for anything they own that isn't physical, is that people start to blur the lines between the different sets of laws that make up IP ( Read more... ) -
First Step Towards Windows 10 in Security Updates?
So, for Win7 and 8.1 users, Patch Tuesday brought some security updates for Internet Explorer. That patch apparently has a "trojan" update KB3146449, which is an advertisement generator for Windows 10 for when you open up a new tab.
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Wow. Windows 10 Updates Causing Problems Again
Shouldn't be any surprise with this, airite ( Read more... ) -
The Gaming Slope
You know, I tried to make a bit of a sarcastic comment about how with the way gamers like to place their mouths on the corporate sewage pipe and inhale, we still won't be at the bottom of this degrading quality slope in the game industry even when gamers are expected to pony up $300 bucks in advance in return for a slip of paper reading "IOU 1 game ( Read more... )