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Loop Hero Developers: Russian Players, You Can Pirate Our Game

March 30, 2022/in Internet Security

Loop Hero developers have recently encouraged their players to “raise the pirate flag.”

Four Quarters, the indie Russian game developer responsible for the surprise hit Loop Hero, is encouraging players to pirate the game if they are unable to purchase it legally. This was the result of the broad range of sanctions imposed on Russia since its specialized military operations in Ukraine in late February.

How to Download Loop Hero

Loop Hero players in Russia and fans all over the world have been wondering how to download Loop Hero due to the imposed sanctions of the U.S. on Russia. They are currently unable to purchase Loop Hero through Steam or the Nintendo Switch’s eShop.

Loop Hero‘s Russian developers encouraged their players that if they are unable to purchase the mystical role-playing game, they can simply pirate it.

As reported by Engadget, Four Quarters wrote, “It is not known when all this will end, therefore, in such difficult times, we can only help everyone to raise the pirate flag (together with vpn) and share the most popular distribution on the rutracker”.

Four Quarters encouraged its players to “raise the pirate flag” and even included a downloadable link of the game via BitTorrent and the Russian torrent site RuTracker.

Steam and Nintendo have temporarily stopped accepting payments from Russian customers, effectively excluding the entire country from their respective inventories and marketplaces.

According to Kotaku, it was later revealed that the Loop Hero developers are not able to cash in any payments from their players’ purchases. The financial halt comes from Visa and Mastercard pulling out of Russia in participation in the U.S. sanctions against Russia.

Loop Hero‘s loyal fan base initiated another means to support the Russian developers directly. However, Four Quarters stated, “We are very grateful for your support, but the truth is that everything is fine with us, send this support to your family and friends at this difficult time.”

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‘Free Guy’ Review: Game-Hacking Hero

August 5, 2021/in Computer Security

All the world’s a video game in “Free Guy,” and all the men and women merely players—except for Guy (Ryan Reynolds), the Spartacus of Non-Player Characters. If you’re unclear what that means, much of the movie will be, too.

Disney films never miss a chance to advertise other Disney properties, and until the very end of “Free Guy”—which features a riot of references to Disney-owned Marvel superheroes—the movie is satisfied to rely on “The Truman Show,” “Ready Player One” and “Groundhog Day” to construct its story (credited to Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn). Guy is a bank teller who arises each morning to the same routine, the same cup of coffee from the same barista, the same greeting with his security-guard buddy—named Buddy (Lil Rel Howery)—and the same vicious holdup by the same despicable criminals in sunglasses. Guy is lovelorn—he wants to meet that special someone, but never does. And then he encounters someone new—Molotov Girl (Jodie Comer), who’s also wearing sunglasses. He decides if he gets sunglasses his life will change. He does. And it does.

Guy, we have come to realize, is an NPC in a video game. The shades make him a real player, so to speak. Molotov Girl, it turns out, is actually Millie Rusk, a computer prodigy who with her ex-boyfriend, Walter “Keys” McKey (Joe Keery), created a game called “Life Itself.” Their use of artificial-intelligence software was intended to allow characters to evolve, to make choices and choose their own fates. When they took it to the loathsome Antoine (Taika Waititi), CEO of the Soonami games company, he stole their A.I. engine and shelved their game but used their work in his own “Free City: Carnage.” (“Order now and get bonus mayhem!”)

He also hired away Keys, who never deserved Millie anyway: To prove Antoine’s crime, she has created the Molotov avatar, jumped into the game to gather evidence and inadvertently ignited Guy’s sense of destiny—a previously dormant feature of Keys and Millie’s stolen design. The gaming world goes crazy. Who is this guy? Or rather, Guy?

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