Just about every week we end up talking about someone who is predicting the doom of (enter technology here), and we’re getting a little tired of it. Ubisoft seems to think that just because hackers aren’t calling in to tell them they aren’t hacking their product means that DRM is working. Blizzard makes a move to get a cut of gold farming biz while Sony is plays nice nice with indie devs. EA gives you yet another reminder that when you buy games, you still never own them. Euclideon shows off their break through in graphics technology (again) while more than a few industry artist voice their disbelief (again). All that plus a bit more on this episode of the Mashcast.

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