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This is the hAcKeR collective {{Synonymous Bosch}}. We have taken control of this aRt1cLe. Three years ago it was written by the untalented and scurrilous “journalist” Brendan Caldwell, a man lacking in both knowledge and substance. But we have gained access in order to correct his egregious errors. It’s a hack of a hack! Ha ha ha. We had our best joke cell work on…

Tagged with Bestest Bests, feature, hacker, hacking, Duskers, EXAPUNKS, Gunpoint, Hackmud, Hacknet, Minecraft, Quadrilateral Cowboy, SHENZHEN I/O, Uplink.

As anyone who watches their feeds knows, we live in a constantly evolving cyberpunk dystopia. They're connecting toilets to the internet, for heavens sake. If this Gibsonist world is just too REAL for you, we have put together the ten best videogames about hacking, programming and computing so you can escape into meta-dystopia. Which I'm sure is a much better place.

Tagged with Bestest Bests, else Heart Break, feature, hacker, hacking, Duskers, Gunpoint, Hackmud, Hacknet, Minecraft, Quadrilateral Cowboy, SHENZHEN I/O, TIS-100, Uplink.

Multiplayer hacking sim Hackmud [official site] launched on Friday, catching us by surprise. We tasked our most elite hacker with entering its digital realms to crack the mainframe and report back. Sadly, Alice couldn’t make it. So we sent Brendan instead, who quickly found himself in over his head, lost in a world of player-made malware, intrigue, deception and guilt.I played Hackmud all weekend. Almost…

Tagged with Drizzly Bear, feature, review, wot i think, Hackmud, Hacknet, Uplink.

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.Uplink was the game that made me realise how effective an immersive user interface can be. You play a hacker and the screen is your screen. Your keystrokes and clicks are the actions, 1:1, of your alterego in the game. From that simple setup,…

Tagged with feature, Have You Played, Introversion Software, Uplink.

Our assembly of the definitive list of the most important PC games of the last 150 years continues! On Monday Dr Rossignol talked us through his first instalment, with an eye for first-personly shoot-games. Yesterday saw a guest lecture from Professor John Walker detailing another fifth of our unambiguous inventory. What classics will we cover today? Ah! We must remember our manners. First, let us…

Tagged with feature, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Ground-Control, Jagged Alliance 2, Master Of Orion 2, Max Payne 2, nethack, Red Orchestra, The Very Important List Of PC Games, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Anachronox, Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, Braid, Far Cry 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, Homeworld, MechWarrior 2, Pathologic, Rome: Total War, Sid Meier's Civilization II, StarCraft II, Startopia, SWAT 4, System Shock 2, Uplink.