Nintendo

It Might Soon Be Cool To Jailbreak Your Consoles

It’s totally cool to “jailbreak” an iPhone to get around its DRM. Apple may not like that, but the courts say otherwise, so it has to abide. Video game consoles? Less cool. But that could soon change.


May 13, 2011
In Real Life

The Day The Secret Service Raided A Role-Playing Game Company

Steve Jackson Games is a company well known for its tabletop RPGs and card games. An innocent enough trade, then, so why in 1990 were its offices raided by the United States Secret Service?


March 6, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Action Against Hacker Exposes Visitors To His Web Site

Caught in the blast of Sony’s lawsuit against the man who jailbroke the PlayStation 3 is anyone who may have visited his website, under a court order that set off privacy advocates and further angered hackers.