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Chrono Trigger’s Story Is Simpler Than You Remember, But That’s What Makes It Great
Chrono Trigger celebrated the 30-year anniversary of its US release this week. Below, we look back at how it continues to endure and what continues to make it a powerful, relevant classic. After 30 years, I still often find myself thinking about Fiona’s Forest in Chrono Trigger, and one of the scenes that captures what…
You will always remember this as the day you finally caught FamousSparrow
In July 2024, ESET Research noticed suspicious activity on the system of a trade group in the United States that operates in the financial sector. While helping the affected entity remediate the compromise, we made an unexpected discovery in the victim’s network: malicious tools belonging to FamousSparrow, a China-aligned APT group. There had been no…
Psychonauts Is 20 Years Old, So Let’s Remember An All-Time Classic
One of the stranger moments of my career was reviewing a game, giving it a four-page review and a well-deserved score of 89 percent in the then-massively-selling UK PC Gamer magazine, and then the game not coming out for another eight months. That was just one example of the nightmares Psychonauts—Double Fine’s magnum opus—went through…
Remember when BlackBerry took on the iPad?
Summary Back in 2011, BlackBerry released both its first and last iPad competitor: the PlayBook tablet. The PlayBook was ahead of its time in many ways, shipping with features not available on competing tablet computers at the time. Ultimately, the PlayBook failed to compete with Apple’s iPad in the tablet market, largely down to a…