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The Quake shareware CD-ROM contained encrypted copies of every id Software game—and yes, it was cracked 39 days after release
By Andy Edser Published
News I blame those pesky kids.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Doom is the most influential game ever made, and now I really want to ask him whether he prefers the chainsaw or the BFG
By Andy Edser Published
News Important questions are left on the table here.

Age verification checks are now in force in the UK because of the Online Safety Act, but with the Discord fallout, it seems like one bad idea after another
By Jess Kinghorn Published
Talking it over Data disaster.

Someone has already made a free in-browser 3D model to bypass Discord age verification that 'works on any potato computer'
By James Bentley Published
News That's one way to get around it.

Discord clarifies it 'is not requiring everyone to complete a face scan or upload an ID' and will 'confirm your age group using information we already have'
By James Bentley Published
News That can only be good news, I assume?

'We had 16 megahertz CPUs, 640k of RAM, floppy disks': John Carmack reflects on the hardware that made Wolfenstein 3D
By James Bentley Published
News That's to celebrate id's 35th anniversary.

Eye-scanning Orb maker says 'there is no world where we are not going to have' biometrics to check we're human and keep games bot-free
By Jacob Fox Published
*Shuts eyes* And with the AI bubble continuing to expand, they might just be right.

Eye scans and digital IDs to stop online bots in games: It's not quite as Orwellian as you might think but proof-of-human isn't problem-free
By Jacob Fox Last updated
Machine wars Iris scans and face scans? Or do we need a "new class of solutions"?
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