Some game developers use Red Shell to fingerprint gamers for marketing purposes, and gamers are not happy, forcing many to remove it. Red Shell logs a gamer’s fingerprint so game developers can ...

Emily Hobbs is a Staff Writer at Dualshockers. When she's not writing articles, she's also a senior Computer Information Systems with a Forensics focus major at Stevenson University, where she bonded ...

Data collection is everywhere, even in a goofy Steam indie about selling weapons to potatoes. Following an outcry from audiences across Reddit and Steam forums, multiple developers and publishers on ...

PC gamers are an inquisitive breed – if a developer inserts a file into their games, even without announcing it, one adventurous player diving through the game’s directories will eventually find it.

In Mario Kart, red shells target your nearest rival and ruthlessly stop them in their tracks. Everybody hates them. Marketing company Red Shell, meanwhile, helps video game companies more accurately ...

Forum goers and redditors have been campaigning for the removal of Red Shell from a number of major games recently, calling the program "spyware." Red Shell's data collection isn't quite the ...