Cliff Bleszinski’s Boss Key Productions held an open beta for its upcoming law-of-gravity-breaking online FPS LawBreakers last month, and it seemed to go pretty well: Laws were broken, people were shot, and a good time was had by all. Unfortunately, it was a time-limited beta that came to an end on July 5. But the […]
Category: Games
PUBG next monthly update pushed to August 3, in-game skin system not due till launch
As teased by Brendan Greene earlier this month, PUBG’s latest monthly update promises first-person servers, an FOV slider for first-person view and a new rifle. As a result of “complications with a [recent] client crash bug”, these features won’t be implemented till August 3 (which could mean next month sees two monthly updates), however in-game skins designed to […]
Hackers hijacked PCs using Source Engine kill animation exploit
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, Portal 2 and other Source Engine games were all affected by a particularly nasty exploit until recently. Basically, by uploading custom assets into a custom map, hackers could use them to trigger a “buffer overflow vulnerability” which resulted in the victim PC being open to remote code execution. In […]