Unfortunately, high stakes cybercrime in the real world isn't quite as cool as it seems in Cyberpunk 2077. There's no punked-up jacket plugging USB cables into his eyeballs to steal corporate secrets here - instead, it's chumps trying their luck with email scams suggesting that you (yes, you!) have been given special access to the game's supposedly-upcoming beta. It's gotten bad enough that the devs…
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Feature: The sim that puts the con in contrail
Judging by the “I fell for it too” messages still appearing regularly on flight sim forums, the shameless parasites behind ProFlightSimulator and its equally vile sibling VirtualPilot3D are still persuading unwary online punters to pay 67+ USD for an old, superficially tweaked version of FREE open-source flight sim FlightGear. In today's Flare Path I examine some of the latest lies the ProFlightSimulator scammers are using to…
In their ongoing attempts to crack down on scammers and spammers using throwaway accounts on Steam, Valve have further tightened the restrictions on who can and can't message folks. For years, new Steam accounts have been unable to add friends, open group chat, vote on Greenlight or the Steam Workshop, write reviews, leave comments, and whatnot until they owned a game. Seems that wasn't enough,…
Feature: Simulation & wargame news
Hello potential VirtualPilot3D, ProFlightSimulator, Flight Simulator Plus or FlightProSim purchaser! My name is Tim Stone. I've been a flight simmer for thirty years, and a flight sim critic for 4369 days, 9 hours, and 37 minutes. In all that time I don't think I've ever loathed a piece of software as passionately as I loathe the game you are currently thinking about buying. If you can…