‘For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products’: The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties

Apple is well known for its closed ecosystem of tech, rather than its PC gaming. The brand has long been known to make systems or products that work far better with other Apple items than anything else. This walled garden presents a user experience that ranges from blissfully simple to frustratingly complicated depending on what…

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Random: Modder Turns The Nightmarish “PlayStacean” Into A Real PlayStation Console

“Yes, the claw controller is fully functional. No, it is not comfortable to use”. When League of Legends concept artist Anh Dang came up with the crab-like “PlayStacean” console, she couldn’t possibly have realised that this amusing pun would, one day, become a fully functional console—but that’s precisely what has happened. Modder GingerOfMods has taken…

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Shadow of Mordor’s beloved nemesis system exists because the publisher threw a tantrum about second-hand sales

Remember that weird time about 15 years back when the videogame industry filled its nappy over the existence of second-hand games? Activision-Blizzard clamped down on them, following EA and THQ’s lead, and one of Fable 3’s developers said they were worse than piracy, which was the other big bogeyman of the day. One unexpected consequence…

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