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Diners Devour Made-to-Order Fraud
Diners Devour Made-to-Order Fraud
Cyber-criminals use Telegram to sell food bought with stolen credit cards to hungry users
Feb. 12, 2021
US Jails Money Mule Kingpin
US Jails Money Mule Kingpin
Man who laundered millions of dollars stolen by Eastern European computer hackers is sent to prison
Feb. 12, 2021
Three Charged Over Fraudulent Vaccine Website
Three Charged Over Fraudulent Vaccine Website
Baltimore County trio indicted over spoofed Moderna website selling fake coronavirus vaccines
Feb. 12, 2021
Playtonic branches into game publishing with Playtonic Friends label
Playtonic branches into game publishing with Playtonic Friends label
Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic is getting into the publishing biz thanks to its new offshoot Playtonic Friends.
Feb. 12, 2021
Analyst: Tighter IDFA privacy rules on iOS spell short-term trouble for in-app ads
Analyst: Tighter IDFA privacy rules on iOS spell short-term trouble for in-app ads
Starting in "early spring 2021," Apple's ID For Advertisers (IDFA) will switch to an opt-in system and, in doing so, reduce advertisers ability to deliver targeted ads on iOS.
Feb. 12, 2021
Profits falter despite rising game sales at Sega Sammy
Profits falter despite rising game sales at Sega Sammy
Net sales and profits are in decline at Sega Sammy despite rising video game sales.
Feb. 12, 2021
Asmodee acquires digital multiplayer board game platform Board Game Arena
Asmodee acquires digital multiplayer board game platform Board Game Arena
Asmodee has acquired digital multiplayer board game platform, Board Game Arena, for an undisclosed fee.
Feb. 12, 2021
Human: Fall Flat has topped 25 million sales worldwide
Human: Fall Flat has topped 25 million sales worldwide
Multiplayer platformer Human: Fall Flat has sold over 25 million units worldwide, according to publisher Curve Digital.
Feb. 12, 2021
Trials of Mana remake tops 1 million digital sales and shipments
Trials of Mana remake tops 1 million digital sales and shipments
Trials of Mana has passed 1 million shipments and digital sales worldwide, according to publisher Square Enix.
Feb. 12, 2021
Get a job: Playco is hiring a Senior Product Manager - Games
Get a job: Playco is hiring a Senior Product Manager - Games
Senior Product Managers are creative problem-solvers who leverage data to understand product and platform health and use those insights to define new game functionality.
Feb. 12, 2021
How Resident Evil Revelations 2 Showed Up Its Predecessors
How Resident Evil Revelations 2 Showed Up Its Predecessors
The Revelations series may have been just a spinoff of Resident Evil, but Revelations 2 surprised me with just how well it nailed the formula of a good Resident Evil game.
Feb. 12, 2021
Implementing Raytraced Ambient Occlusion in The Riftbreaker
Implementing Raytraced Ambient Occlusion in The Riftbreaker
In this article we describe the process of implemention raytraced ambient occlusion into The Riftbreaker. We describe the process, the obstacles we had to overcome and the optimizations we included along the way.
Feb. 12, 2021