Collaborate Disseminate
The highly popular “Untitled Goose Game” has been found to be vulnerable to an attack that could allow hackers to run malicious code on your computer.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Untitled Goose Game security hole could have allowed hackers to wreak havoc
If you look at enough of another developer’s code, you will eventually say, “What were you thinking, you gosh-darn lunatic?” Now, this exchange can precede the moment where you quit a company and check into a padded room, or it can be akin to calling someone a mad genius and …read more
In The Room Three, players are tasked with collecting mysterious objects known as “Null Shards”. But it seems one player, who goes by the name [Juiceman], took this challenge a bit literally. Starting with promotional art released for the game, he embarked on an epic journey to create a …read more
The Super Nintendo recently experienced a surge in popularity, either from a combination of nostalgic 30-somethings recreating their childhoods, or because Nintendo released a “classic” version of this nearly-perfect video game system. Or a combination of both. But what made the system worthy of being remembered at all? With only …read more
Continue reading Creative Limitation And The Super Nintendo Sound Chips
We love watching the creativity unleashed by the democratization of once-exotic technologies. The casualness by which one can order a cheap, small run of PCBs has unlocked a flood of fine pitch components and projects which look commercial quality even with a total build volume of one. Now the once …read more
Continue reading Micro-Sized Flex for Commercial Quality Bodging
One rite of passage back in the good old days of owning a TRS-80, Commodore 64, or similar vintage computer was writing your own game. It probably wouldn’t be very good, but it wouldn’t be much worse than most of the stuff that was out there, either. Today, trying to …read more
Continue reading Game Builder Lets Kids — Even Old Kids — Build Games
It takes a lot of work to build a modern video game. Typically an entire company will spend months (at least) developing the gameplay, selecting or programming an engine, and working out the bugs. This amount of effort isn’t strictly necessary for older video game systems though, and homebrew developers …read more
Continue reading Novice Coders Can Create Classic Game Boy Games
Video games, while entertaining to be sure, are a great way to experience things that could not easily be recreated in real life. Shooting aliens on a giant ring in space is an obvious example, but there are some more realistic examples that video games make much more accessible, such …read more
Hackers infected Asian video game software houses by poisoning developer tools that left game players with trojanised code running on their computers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Operation ShadowHammer: Hackers planted malware code in video games
The malware hides in the legitimate game downloads, signed with a real certificate; connections to ShadowHammer have been found. Continue reading Point Blank Gamers Targeted with Backdoor Malware