
Five things I consumed in 2014
2014 was a year in which one could partake.
2014 was a year in which one could partake.
Was Ubisoft’s megahit science fiction?
Games should take note.
From Metal Gear Solid to Transistor, the mechanical eye sees all.
Digging up a new type of play.
Empathy for the devil. Or at least the NSA.
The Queen has proposed a stern lifetime sentence for cyber-attackers within the British state, so don’t get any bright ideas from game sessions of Watch Dogs, Englanders. In a recent speech, the sovereign revealed a crime bill that hackers whose digital troublemaking results in “loss of life, serious illness or injury, or serious damage to national security” would punished to the full extent of the law, seeing how the death penalty is abolished in the country. The Queen also pushed for amendments that increase sentences for Robin Hood hacktivist types like LulzSec and Anonymous, who target large corporations for evenhandedness and…
Fast times in the unreal city.
All it took was one day for the online multiplayer leaderboards for Watch Dogs to get hacked, perhaps not surprising for a game about using cyber-jacking abilities to crack into overreaching surveillance systems. As you see in the above screenshot, captured by Reddit user unsubdefaults, players such as xXPICSXx have already maxed out their scores. Other users are reporting that some players have used cheats to gain unlimited health and ammo in online modes. This obviously isn’t cool, because online multiplayer is one of the more appealing aspects of Watch Dogs’ open-world, with features like Intrusion or Tailing, which borrow…