Archive for December 2013

3k3y for PS3: An Exercise in Frustration

The 3k3y (“three-key”) modchip is a device designed to let PlayStation 3 owners execute “unsigned code” on their consoles. Technically “unsigned code” is defined as any code Sony hasn’t authorized you to run on your system. Publicly people proclaim this means things homebrew games and custom applications, but privately everyone knows they are primarily used […]

Penny Arcade’s Forum Moderators Are Also Virulent Losers

So I’m on the Penny Arcade forums ONLY for a very specific subforum involved with running community activities that has nothing to do with Penny Arcade proper. So I try to get in today and it says I don’t have permission. All the subforums are gone. Did I get banned? What the heck did I […]

Eurogamer puts Turn 10’s feet to the fire, brings them a mug of warm cocoa

(Editor’s note: quickly find all past and future columns from Jerry Whorebach, Senior Writer at Caltrops.com, through this tag.) Eurogamer’s Martin Robinson interviews Turn 10’s creative director/media daddy, Dan Greenawalt In terms of the free-to-play mechanics that are coming into it – because it came as part of a wave of Microsoft games that introduced […]