Think that your data is safe because it’s somewhere with a reputation for being secure? Well, the NSA can get at most of the data on the internet. [New York Times]

Sony has big plans for their vision of the future of gaming. While Microsoft is going big on Kinect, Sony is going ahead with their own VR headset. [Games Industry]

Instead of being a Sony exclusive developer, Quanitc Dream could have been making games for Xbox consoles. However, Microsoft wanted to make a massive change to Heavy Rain that drove David Cage away from them. [Digital Spy]

Total War: Rome II has been getting a lot of praise from critics but gamers have found a lot of bugs in the game that conflict with reviews. One anonymous developer explained the process of design and checking for bugs and proceeded to eviscerate Creative Assembly for failing to adequately test their game for bugs. [Total War Forums]

Hotline Miami’s devs are willing to reconsider including the rape scene that was in HM2’s demo. They say there’s context for the scene in the game as a whole but are willing to compromise narrative because of the criticism. I’m dumping the link here because I don’t want to have to do the artistic integrity diatribe again because this pisses me off. Dennaton thinks the scene works in the narrative and we shouldn’t try to censor their artistry. [RPS]