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Overwatch Director Pleas with Fans to ‘Be Nice’ While Slipping a Major Secret
Overwatch Directors wants fans of the game to try and be nice to everyone. Overwatch is a pretty awesome first-person shooter. That will not the first time I’ve said that, but it’s a point that apparently some people need reminding of. We rarely see a game that is so polished.…
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Pepe the Frog Creator Declares Meme War on Alt-Right with Flurry of DMCA Claims
Pepe the Frog – Unofficial Mascot of the Alt-Right Similar to the troll face, Pepe the Frog has taken the internet over in recent years. Becoming the unofficial mascot of the alt-right, the meme is popularly displayed across various forums and YouTube videos. Persons such as Richard Spencer, Mike Cernovich, Milo…
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Blizzard Blames ‘Toxic Players’ for Lack of New Content in Overwatch
Is Blizzard making a mistake here? I have always considered it to be a golden rule that it is often not wise in placing blame on the fans in answer to your critics. Yes, every website, YouTube personality or even amazing tech resource such as, oh, I don’t know, eTeknix,…
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Games Could Cause Players to Get PTSD, Alzheimers or Schizophrenia
Game Rage is not healthy apparently! If I was to tell you that games can put a strain on your heart rate or blood pressure you’d probably agree, but not care. Gaming can be stressful after all, particularly those in a competitive setting. I bet though that you didn’t think…
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Friday the 13th Game Nerfs Weapons as Councillors Keep Killing Each Other
Well… that was unexpected! In Friday the 13th The Game, you might be forgiven for thinking that Jason Vorhees is your enemy. He is after all, the bad guy of the films. Unfortunately, it seems he’s not the only one you need to worry about. Apparently the weapons in the…
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Copyright Troll Receives Jail Time Following Attack on Uber Driver
Robert Croucher is mostly known for being the owner of the copyright troll company Hatton & Berkeley which launched a large offensive against alleged illegal file downloaders in the UK last fall, but now he’ll also be known as a jailbird after assaulting an Uber driver during a night out in…
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Police Looking to Help Support Victims of Online Abuse
We’ve all been online on those late nights, reading our favourite news or finding out the most up to date information about your favourite TV show when someone just doesn’t seem to have any manners. They can do anything from sending a single message to spamming your accounts with hateful…
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PayPal Refuses to Refund Twitch Troll Who Donated $50,000
Twitch has become incredibly popular in recent years and given a platform for certain streamers to earn a living via donations and sponsorship. Clearly, whenever individuals are in the public eye, they can receive trolling in various different forms. Unbelievably, one user who goes by the name of iNexus_Ninja decided to donate…
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EFF Seek Fees For Patent Case Over Online Photo Contests
We’ve all seen the competitions you can enter online, ranging from entering a competition on a forum to having to create and upload a piece of work. A common type of online contest is where you upload pictures, but be warned, some people may own patents to the entire concept of…
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Did AMD Troll Itself on Social Media?
In the past week or so we have heard multiple stories and sources regarding the newest line up of AMD graphic card solutions; namely the Radeon Rx 300 series and the highly anticipated R9 Fury X. It came as a surprise for most people that this High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)…
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Dimension Drive Kickstarter Ruined by Funding Troll
Being an independent developer and creating your own game worthy of release is hard enough and getting it all out is even harder. Thanks to Kickstarter and similar crowdfunding pages the whole thing got a lot easier as you can sell your idea for funding – that is unless you get…
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Online Trolls Can Now Receive up to 2 Years in Jail
The UK government is ramping up efforts to tackle online abuse. Internet trolls are nothing new, but with more people spending more time online than ever before, online abuse and trolling is being taken more seriously than ever before. There have been several high-profile cases in recent months, such as…
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RickMote Controller App Lets You Rickroll Your Chromecast Neighbors
The Raspberry Pi has proven to be a useful tool for security researchers once again. This time, the Chromecast has been exploited, having found an interesting bug that lets you take control of any TV using the device. From a techy point of view, the Chromecast uses a ‘deauth’ command…
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Original RickRoll Video Blocked by YouTube
It appears that the popular video-sharing website, YouTube, has blocked access to a seven years old RickRoll video, preventing users from hearing the still-popular “Never Gonna Give You Up” line. The video itself was uploaded by user ‘cotter548’ and was simply titled “RickRoll’D” and had nearly 71 million views, having…
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BitCoin Tip Tricks Mac Users Into Bricking Their Machines
It was only last week that Xbox One users were bricking their consoles, a tip posted online promised to unlock backwards compatibility on the console, but the “secret feature” actually just caused the console to boot loop, effectively bricking the console! Long story short, STAY OUT OF THE DEV MENU.…
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