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U.GG desktop app scans your entire home network every 10-20 seconds

Hey everyone, wanted to give you guys a warning about something I found today.

I was cleaning up my PC and had Sysmon running (kernel-level monitoring tool from Microsoft Sysinternals that logs all network connections and process activity).

Turns out U.GG desktop app is scanning your entire home network every 10-20 seconds. Not just connecting to their own servers for game data, it's actively reaching out to every device on your local network. My router, my NAS, my TV, phones of people in my house, literally everything connected to my WiFi.

A League overlay app has zero reason to know what devices are on your home network. This is most likely device fingerprinting for analytics.

You can't see this in Task Manager or with normal tools. You need kernel-level monitoring to catch this. I'm willing to bet 99% of people running U.GG have no idea this is happening.

If anyone wants proof or more details I can share the Sysmon logs.

u/RefrigeratorTight883 — 8 hours ago
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A Japanese indie developer is seeking legal action over alleged missing funds from a crowdfunding campaign, says the funding platform claims the money was 'mistakenly wired to a different client'

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u/QuantumQuicksilver — 24 hours ago
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“Spending decades working on one thing only to realize you can’t do anything else.” Guilty Gear creator discusses dangers of modern AAA development’s “overspecialization” of staff

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u/Turbostrider27 — 18 hours ago
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I Can Only Speak Doner-A game about making döners in a country where you don't know the language-Full Release!

Hi everyone!

We made a game about the immigrant experience of going to a new country to work in your uncle's doner shop. The thing is, you dont know the language of the country you're going to, so you have to work with the customers to get their orders. Learn the language, manage the shop, socialize and make some wonderful döners!

The game is out now on Steam with a %10 launch discount.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3914500/I_Can_Only_Speak_Doner/

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u/fokaia_studio — 7 hours ago
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Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio; currently obsessed with terraforming games: 'Dwarf Fortress just doesn't accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing' [Interview]

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u/megaapple — 8 hours ago

Sony will put you through a 2-stage job interview for the chance to get scanned into Gran Turismo 7 and other games

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u/RenatsMC — 5 hours ago

Our first game Signal Zone is finally out today on Steam. Here's the launch trailer.

My husband and I have been working on this game for a long time, and I’m really excited to finally share it with the world. I hope you enjoy it!

Signal Zone is a minimalist base-defense strategy where you gather resources, expand your base, and survive increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night. The full game includes a campaign with three difficulty levels, Endless Mode, and Custom Games.

 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4185580/Signal_Zone/

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u/svetlunka — 6 hours ago

More games should have "forced" ray tracing

It's been a while since Doom The Dark Ages came out and all the drama surrounding it.

A lot of people, including me, prefer to play many games with Ray Tracing off even with fairly powerful GPUs. What I think a lot of people don't realize is that the reason the performance hit is so big and the visual improvement relatively minor is that in the vast majority of games still RT is added on as an afterthought.

With the exception of a few games that specifically got funding to show off RT (Control, Cyberpunk) most games are completely designed around their rasterized path. The art direction is dictated by rasterized lighting. The game optimization is focused on rasterized. Then Ray Tracing is just slapped on top of however the game looks with rasterized lighting.

The only reason Doom The Dark Ages can literally run on the Steam Deck (I actually played through about half the game on the Deck) is because they were able to focused 100% of their time optimizing the Ray Tracing path.

The consoles support RT. The Steam Deck and all the similar handhelds support RT. And the overwhelming majority of GPUs on the Steam Hardware survey support RT. It might not be the right choice for every AAA/AA game, but if we want more games with good looking and good performing RTGI like The Dark Ages we will need games to start designing with RT in mind from the start.

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u/Wboys — 15 hours ago
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