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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...