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 ...

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.

A number of PC developers have taken out alleged spyware Red Shell, a software designed to track player habits, of their games. Studios big and small came under fire recently after a Reddit thread ...

Last month, ad tracking software Red Shell generated controversy after it was discovered in a number of popular games. The program's information collection had - and has - many players concerned about ...

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 ...