MMO Year In Review: 5 of 2013’s Biggest Dick Moves

People are dicks – particularly on the Internet. While that shouldn’t come as any great surprise, occasionally we come across someone whose level of sheer dickery reaches legendary proportions. As we move into 2014, let’s take a look at a few such individuals from the previous year.

Censorship Spells Trouble for League of Legends Patcher

Internet filtering has been a hot button issue for the past several years. With the slow gutting of protective measures like Net Neutrality, and with governmental powers seeking an end to online anonymity, it’s rather harrowing to see the slow progression of political and social policing of the internet.

Recently, after about a year of lobbying, the United Kingdom enacted a piece of legislation that many have come to call the “UK Porn Filter.” What the filter requires is for British ISP’s to implement filters and controls, which are on by default, that will block access to “violent material,” not imited to “extremist and terrorist related content,” “anorexia and eating disorder websites,” and “suicide related websites.”

Eight Reasons To Wait Before Going Next Gen

As you are at this point no doubt aware, the ?next generation? of gaming has finally arrived. Last month, Sony and Microsoft unveiled the latest iterations of their home video game consoles: the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, respectively. Neither system is actually worth buying right off the bat, though. I’ve some very good reasons for this stance.