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LinkedIn’s Lynda Latest to Suffer Data Breach
LinkedIn’s Lynda Latest to Suffer Data Breach
LinkedIn’ Lynda Latest Web Firm to Suffer Data Breach. Millions are contacted but few are thought to be affected
Dec. 19, 2016
PayAsUGym Breach Exposes More Security Failings
PayAsUGym Breach Exposes More Security Failings
PayAsUGym Breach Exposes More Security Failings. Reports claim 300,000 customers were affected
Dec. 19, 2016
Irish Eyes Not Smiling on Ryanair as $5M Fraudulently Takes Off
Irish Eyes Not Smiling on Ryanair as $5M Fraudulently Takes Off
Funds normally used to buy jet fuel were fraudulently removed via electronic transfer to a Chinese bank.
Dec. 19, 2016
Multi-Factor Authentication Sees Huge 40% Jump in 2016
Multi-Factor Authentication Sees Huge 40% Jump in 2016
93% of organizations are using MFA in some capacity.
Dec. 19, 2016
At GDC 2017 you'll see how Inside's final surprise was made
At GDC 2017 you'll see how Inside's final surprise was made
There's something surprising waiting at the end of Inside, and in a talk titled "Huddle up!: Making the [SPOILER] of 'Inside'" a team of Playdead devs will explain how (and why) they built it.
Dec. 19, 2016
Get a job: Soulbound Studios is hiring a Sr. Gameplay Programmer
Get a job: Soulbound Studios is hiring a Sr. Gameplay Programmer
Soulbound Studios is seeking a full-time Senior Gameplay Programmer to join the dedicated team working on Chronicles of Elyria in Bellevue, WA.
Dec. 19, 2016
Turbine offloads Lord of the Rings Online and D&D Online to Standing Stone Games
Turbine offloads Lord of the Rings Online and D&D Online to Standing Stone Games
Turbine continues to shift towards being a mobile F2P studio, passing responsibility for its 2 big MMORPGs to new indie studio Standing Stone Games, which is staffed by devs who worked on both games.
Dec. 19, 2016
Super Mario Run hits 37 million downloads in three days
Super Mario Run hits 37 million downloads in three days
Nintendo's iOS exclusive platformer Super Mario Run has pulled in over 37 million worldwide downloads in just three days.
Dec. 19, 2016
CD Projekt Red nets $7M to develop 'seamless multiplayer' tech
CD Projekt Red nets $7M to develop 'seamless multiplayer' tech
The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red has received funding to help with the research and development of, among other things, "seamless multiplayer" technology.
Dec. 19, 2016
Nintendo Switch to support Vulkan, OpenGL 4.5 and OpenGL ES
Nintendo Switch to support Vulkan, OpenGL 4.5 and OpenGL ES
A few developers are buzzing today about The Khronos Group's decision to add Nintendo's upcoming Switch console to its lists of hardware compliant with the OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan APIs.
Dec. 19, 2016
Historian completes 5-year quest to acquire & preserve the first NES ad
Historian completes 5-year quest to acquire & preserve the first NES ad
Video game historian Frank Cifaldi has successfully completed a quest to acquire and record for posterity what he believes to be the very first advertisement for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Dec. 19, 2016
Gamasutra's Best of 2016: Alex Wawro's top 10 games
Gamasutra's Best of 2016: Alex Wawro's top 10 games
Friends, we made it through another year. What times we had! What interesting twists and turns our lives took! Amid it all we played some video games, didn't we? Here are a few of my favorites.
Dec. 19, 2016