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... unless the auction house is using http! Interesting...

... then there's the matter of the Authenticator optionally not being required on every log in. There could be a token stored locally, that is returned to the server on subsequent logins, although blizzard describes it as "remembering the location you logged in from."

• If there's a token, then a stolen token along with your password might allow someone to login form anywhere.
• If there's no token, then some ip spoofing would be required. I wonder who Blizzard's network provider is.

Also, these authenticators themselves are sometimes compromised, as in the SecurID hack last year: http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3872

Protocols other than http don't even use Session IDs in a way that can be hijacked...

@Soulblitz : It sounds like he knew he was going to make Pong, but wanted people to guess that.

I was so sure it was holograms! Maybe some cabinets were and some weren't? The one in the video is not the one I remember.

I can't picture CBS being the type of company that owns a site like GiantBomb. Then again, I don't know much about CBS, or CBS Interactive. The CBS Interactive site does look like generic early 2000s brochureware: http://www.cbsinteractive.com/

So that's a bad sign.

I've been playing with two other friends. Before, we would have occasional StarCraft II nights, along with a larger group. The larger group will never be in to MMOs, I think, but the three of us started with Ultima Online in high school, and have dabbled ever since. It helps that we are all fairly big Star Wars and Bioware geeks, I think. We've each got Imperial characters with around 100 hours in, at least. Now we're starting a trio of Jedi characters that we are planning to mainly play together. We always have our imperial characters and alts when not everyone is available.

I think the Bioware story has us more hooked than other MMOs have in the past. I also get a pretty steady sense of progression compared to say, Dark Age of Camelot, which is the last MMO that all three of us tried to play regularly together. That was very grindy.

Has anyone been playing the Mac release of Trine from Steam using XBox controllers? I bought it recently but haven't got very far in to it. I just ordered a couple of XBox controllers "for Windows" and am going to use tattiebogle's driver to get them working on my Mac laptops. Once I get them going, I was wondering if Trine would pick them up? Has anyone else got this set-up working?

Is TIE Fighter available somewhere tweaked to run on modern systems? Something like good old games?

The Random PC Game: Wing Commander III video got me wondering. But, while WC3 is available on good old games, none of the TIE Fighter games are. Is there somewhere else that still sells it?

The problem with a statement made through the medium of an iPhone app is that the people who play it can really make a difference, but probably don't know how, and even after they have played, they still won't care. The factories like Foxconn are driven by sales, they get shit on by big controversies in their market countries. Although, cheap goods is pretty much what keeps large parts of the developed world satisfied.

I enjoyed the quest chain in Morrowind around freeing slaves. Some of that is structured as escort quests, but again the story around it makes it something more.

Your description of the ultimate escort quest does sound a lot like ICO. Any time the princess is in the room, your survival is directly linked to her survival and so your progression to her progression.

Is the VIP mode in Counter-Strike an example of a game structured around being a guard?