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Doing a quick check of my Google Reader page and considering just giving up and going back to bed again, but here are a couple things of note, both from Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
The first is this, which has brightened my day at least a tiny bit, assuming that the guy is actually involved with this stuff. Hopefully this is just the first of many similar arrests. (But then, in the comments there are the usual "Aw, but the hackers didn't really do anything all that bad, did they, so they shouldn't actually go to prison if caught, should they? It's totally 100% the fault of the corporations and government agencies that got hacked for getting hacked, and the hackers themselves are just precious little snowflakes who should be given medals." idiots, which has already killed whatever little bit of good feeling I may have gotten from the initial news.)
The second is this, which... well... I don't really feel like reading all of that stuff (either the RPS article and the Wired article to which it links) right now, maybe later. But my initial impression is that it looks like the guy from the Redner Group has had another, even bigger meltdown over the Duke Nukem Forever PR fiasco.
If, however, I had to take a stab of a guess as to which specific review Mr. Redner was referring to in his more recent rant, my hunch would be that it was this one by my absolute favorite video game reviewer of all time, Mr. Jim Sterling of Desucktoid, especially since Sterling has made it pretty clear, both before and after that review (as he so often does when trying to defend his typically shitty reviews), how much he hates the game and the character of Duke Nukem. And yet... even with that said, I've watched quite a bit of Let's Play of DNF (as I have absolutely no intention of ever actually playing the game myself and I wanted to see if it was as bad as everyone says it is), and I have to admit that I find it difficult to take Mr. Sterling to task in this particular instance.
The first is this, which has brightened my day at least a tiny bit, assuming that the guy is actually involved with this stuff. Hopefully this is just the first of many similar arrests. (But then, in the comments there are the usual "Aw, but the hackers didn't really do anything all that bad, did they, so they shouldn't actually go to prison if caught, should they? It's totally 100% the fault of the corporations and government agencies that got hacked for getting hacked, and the hackers themselves are just precious little snowflakes who should be given medals." idiots, which has already killed whatever little bit of good feeling I may have gotten from the initial news.)
The second is this, which... well... I don't really feel like reading all of that stuff (either the RPS article and the Wired article to which it links) right now, maybe later. But my initial impression is that it looks like the guy from the Redner Group has had another, even bigger meltdown over the Duke Nukem Forever PR fiasco.
If, however, I had to take a stab of a guess as to which specific review Mr. Redner was referring to in his more recent rant, my hunch would be that it was this one by my absolute favorite video game reviewer of all time, Mr. Jim Sterling of Desucktoid, especially since Sterling has made it pretty clear, both before and after that review (as he so often does when trying to defend his typically shitty reviews), how much he hates the game and the character of Duke Nukem. And yet... even with that said, I've watched quite a bit of Let's Play of DNF (as I have absolutely no intention of ever actually playing the game myself and I wanted to see if it was as bad as everyone says it is), and I have to admit that I find it difficult to take Mr. Sterling to task in this particular instance.
