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Padlock Your Dropbox with USB Two Factor Authentication

Beef up your security Dropbox is making it more difficult for the bad guys to infiltrate your online storage account, provided you take advantage of the service’s new support for USB-based two-factor authentication. Effective immediately, Dropbox supports Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) security keys as an additional method for two-step verification, albeit only if you’re using…

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The state of FF14 going into 2024: Endwalker’s post-launch experiments proved a failure—still, there’s never been a better time to get started

Final Fantasy 14 is a game that’s tumbling through the air, and it really needs to stick the next landing. With its main competitor World of Warcraft being decent again, it can’t coast on an updraft of ‘Shadowlands refugees’ anymore.  Endwalker’s main story quest was a triumph, yet as far as the ‘MMORPG’ part of…

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GameStop announces plans to sell off French and Canadian outlets, while its CEO yells about ‘Wokeness and DEI’ in bizarre, self-defeating promotion

Video game retailer GameStop has announced plans to “pursue a sale” of its operations in France and Canada, in the latest setback for the company’s international business. According to a brief press release posted to the GameStop website (via the Toronto Star) the move comes in the wake of an “evaluation of its international assets”….

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A decade before Stalker, this obscure Ukrainian Quake clone was quietly breaking new ground for first-person shooters

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

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Ever complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There’s a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: ‘There’s gotta be winners and there’s gotta be losers’

Matchmaking in Overwatch, the boulder to my Sisyphus. This is something that haunts me and every other poor sod still clambering to get out of Elo-hell. It may at times seem like a horrid place to be but ex-Overwatch boss Jeff Kaplan still assures players that it was the best it could be. “The matchmaking…

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