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Crackas With Attitude Player Jailed for Five Years
Crackas With Attitude Player Jailed for Five Years
Crackas With Attitude Player Jailed for Five Years. Liverman helped target former CIA boss and director of national intelligence
Sept. 12, 2017
Bashware Flaw threatens 400M PCs Globally
Bashware Flaw threatens 400M PCs Globally
A newly discovered vulnerability can enable any malware to bypass all security solutions on Windows 10 machines.
Sept. 12, 2017
Bungie pulls Destiny 2 item resembling white supremacist symbol
Bungie pulls Destiny 2 item resembling white supremacist symbol
Just shy of one week after launch, Bungie has removed an in-game armor piece from Destiny 2 after being alerted that the gauntlet’s design strongly resembled that of a white supremacist flag.
Sept. 12, 2017
Thatgamecompany's Sky is headed to Apple TV, iPhone and iPad first
Thatgamecompany's Sky is headed to Apple TV, iPhone and iPad first
The latest game from the developer behind Journey is coming to mobile phones this winter, but only for people that own an Apple device.
Sept. 12, 2017
Worlds Adrift dev Bossa Studios secures $10M investment
Worlds Adrift dev Bossa Studios secures $10M investment
Bossa Studios has raised an additional $10 million to further development of its ambitious MMO sandbox, Worlds Adrift.
Sept. 12, 2017
Speaker Q&A: Arno Hartholt discusses the use of Virtual Humans and VR/AR for clinicians
Speaker Q&A: Arno Hartholt discusses the use of Virtual Humans and VR/AR for clinicians
Arno Hartholt is Director for R&D Integration at USC Institute for Creative Technologies and will be at VRDC 2017 to present his talk 'Immersive Medical Care with VR/AR and Virtual Humans'.
Sept. 12, 2017
Apple shows off the iPhone's ARKit in action with The Machines
Apple shows off the iPhone's ARKit in action with The Machines
After describing the iPhone 8 as the first smartphone designed for AR, Apple demonstrated how its ARKit and Metal 2 API can open the door for devs looking to build an iOS AR game.
Sept. 12, 2017
Opinion: A look at the tabletop RPG that inspired Darkest Dungeon
Opinion: A look at the tabletop RPG that inspired Darkest Dungeon
Like Darkest Dungeon, Torchbearer is a love-letter to the 1st Edition D&D dungeon crawl. But each goes a step further in emphasizing scarcity, and the grittier aspects of dungeon-delving.
Sept. 12, 2017
Apple is now in the business of making its own mobile GPUs
Apple is now in the business of making its own mobile GPUs
Mixed in with news out of Apple that the company will release two new iPhone models, the 8 and the X, was a confirmation that the A11 chip powering both will have its own custom, Apple-designed GPU.
Sept. 12, 2017
Iron Galaxy's Adam Boyes breaks down the pros and cons of game funding deals
Iron Galaxy's Adam Boyes breaks down the pros and cons of game funding deals
At the Chicago Video Game Law Summit veteran games exec Adam Boyes and veteran game lawyer Patrick Sweeney spend over an hour breaking down the pros and cons of various ways you could fund your game.
Sept. 12, 2017
Crafting Tooth & Tail, a gamepad RTS that aims 'to Hearthstone StarCraft'
Crafting Tooth & Tail, a gamepad RTS that aims 'to Hearthstone StarCraft'
Using StarCraft as an emotional target, what we did is we took the genre, we boiled it down to its components, and we rebuilt it," dev Andy Schatz tells Gamasutra in a chat about Tooth & Tail.
Sept. 12, 2017
Thinking about HDR support? Devs say it's effective, but expensive
Thinking about HDR support? Devs say it's effective, but expensive
A few devs talked about the costs/rewards of HDR (high dynamic range) support with PCGamer, and it's worth a read if you're curious about how folks at different studios approach this display tech.
Sept. 12, 2017