Tag: unlocks

08 MAY

Apple quietly adds USB Restricted Mode to iOS 11.4, limiting forensic unlocks

In the wake of revelations that companies including Grayshift and Cellebrite have developed tricks to extract data from encrypted iPhones, Apple has quietly added an additional protection to the beta version of iOS 11.4: USB Restricted Mode. Discovered by security researchers Elcomsoft, the new feature is said to be “aimed squarely at law enf…Read More

11 MAR

Valve lets us loose in its new offices, unlocks the doors to a rare merch room

BELLEVUE, Washington—We’ve visited Valve Software’s Seattle-area headquarters in the past, but this week’s gameplay reveal for a new release was met with something else: a chance to check out the company’s biggest-ever office upgrade. I took my camera on this office visit expecting to maybe see a big new mural or a couple of new […]

29 JUL

‘The Vault’ Trailer: James Franco Unlocks the Horror in a Bank Heist Thriller

“Crime does not pay,” the trailer for The Vault ham-fistedly declares. But it’s probably a very accurate description for the heist thriller-turned-horror-movie that is The Vault. In James Franco‘s one-millionth project this year (does the guy never sleep?), he stars as a mild-mannered bank manager with a mustache who finds his bank being robbed by two sisters […]

21 MAR

Analysis: For Honor unlocks cost $730 (or 5,200 hours)

Enlarge / The spikes here represent the cost of unlocking everything in the game. The big guy is Ubisoft… At this point in the evolving history of video-game economics, we’re used to free-to-play games that make you pay exorbitant sums or grind for a ridiculous number of hours to unlock a bunch of digital trinkets. […]