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Twitch Harnessing User Comments to Play Dark Souls
“Twitch Plays” is excruciating to watch but a surprisingly captivating formula which allows user comments to act as control commands. The channel was created by an anonymous Twitch user and integrates a Python script; the script features a graphical interface to clearly display the keys for each action. Miraculously, the Twitch…
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SSL Bug Lets People Impersonate Anyone
So you’re browsing online, through Facebook, Ebay and even your bank and you notice that padlock at the start of your address bar. You see that symbol and you think, that means I’m secure. I’m safe and I can browse and send information without a worry. Seems like that might…
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First Witcher 3 Mods Now Available
Witcher 3 is an action role-playing video game set in an open world environment is an absolutely a great game. It provides awesome experience with stunning graphics, but it does lack something and that is why mods exist! It is nowhere close to letting you play with custom characters, but it enhances…
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Microsoft May Have Stopped ‘Halo Online’, but Modders Won’t
Microsoft announced the free-to-play closed-beta Halo Online title last week, having it be restricted to players in Russia. The modding community did not agree with the company’s decision to lock the title to a specific region, so they leaked a copy of Halo Online and the tool to connect was…
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World of Warcraft Community Helps Dad Mourn his Gamer Son
Yesterday, a father who lost his son posted to reddit, asking readers to help him understand his deceased son’s favourite game, Blizzard’s MMORPG, World of Warcraft. total noob. no clue what i’m doing. So im older (late 50’s) and my son used to play lots of WOW while he was…
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Mental Millet: 1.62 Million Phone Orders in 72 hours
Chinese phone company and electricity provider Millet have just reported that after 72 hours of continuous operation, they’ve dispatched over 1.62 million total units of their new phone release amounting to a total sales amount of $254.5m USD. This shipping figure doesn’t include their TV orders processed in the same time…
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Reddit’s Technology Community Takes A Beating
Reddit is a huge community made up of thousands upon thousands of subreddits, and given that the website often claims the (self-given) title of being “the front page of the internet”, drawing around 110 million unique visits last month alone. So when something rocks that community, it can make a…
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Steam To Add Trading & Gifting To Client
If you use Steam as your primary gaming client it might be interesting to know that they have planned some major updates, at least according to Gamersbook.com. For a while there I ran the beta client of Steam, unfortunately there are so many updates, sometimes multiple updates in one day. When…
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