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Mad Catz lays off 37% of staff in restructuring plan
Mad Catz lays off 37% of staff in restructuring plan
The embattled peripheral maker, which shed a large number of executives yesterday, is making deep cuts across the board.
Feb. 9, 2016
Avast Patches Critical SafeZone Flaw
Avast Patches Critical SafeZone Flaw
Avast Patches Critical SafeZone Flaw. Latest AV vendor to get the Project Zero treatment
Feb. 8, 2016
TMZ Users Hit with Malvertising Blitz
TMZ Users Hit with Malvertising Blitz
TMZ Users Hit with Malvertising Blitz. Gossip site the latest to be struck in ongoing campaign
Feb. 8, 2016
Massive Brute-Force Attack on Alibaba Affects Millions
Massive Brute-Force Attack on Alibaba Affects Millions
TaoBao, a commerce site that could be considered the eBay of China, was the subject of an ongoing offensive from mid-October to November.
Feb. 8, 2016
Adwind Malware-as-a-Service Platform Hit 400,000 Victims Globally
Adwind Malware-as-a-Service Platform Hit 400,000 Victims Globally
The Adwind RAT is a cross-platform, multifunctional malware available via a single malware-as-a-service platform.
Feb. 8, 2016
Cisco Live Berlin 2016, just a week away – A preview
Cisco Live Berlin 2016, just a week away – A preview
Making a trip to Berlin is always worthwhile. And February is especially notable, as this is when famous movie stars make their way down the red carpet for the international...
Feb. 8, 2016
State of the Industry: Enough with the skeletons
State of the Industry: Enough with the skeletons
Over 2,000 devs surveyed in GDC's State of the Industry survey answer the vague question: “Is there anything else you'd like to say about the game industry?” As you can imagine, it gets quite heated.
Feb. 8, 2016
Daigo 'The Beast' Umehara gets nostalgic on Street Fighter II's 25th anniversary
Daigo 'The Beast' Umehara gets nostalgic on Street Fighter II's 25th anniversary
"Street Fighter II enthralled me just as it did to so many others. If there had been no SF2, I would not have been here today as a pro gamer."
Feb. 8, 2016
Video game video hub GameTrailers is shutting down this week
Video game video hub GameTrailers is shutting down this week
GameTrailers announced today via its Twitter account that the video game video hub is shutting down, over a year after it was sold to Defy Media by Viacom in a layoff-ridden 2014 deal.
Feb. 8, 2016
Top brass resign amid MadCatz executive shuffle
Top brass resign amid MadCatz executive shuffle
Change is in the wind at video game peripheral maker Mad Catz, as president and CEO Darren Richardson, senior VP of business affairs Whitney Peterson and company chairman Thomas Brown have resigned.
Feb. 8, 2016
Respawn looks to buck the 'no campaign' trend with Titanfall 2
Respawn looks to buck the 'no campaign' trend with Titanfall 2
Respawn is reportedly trying its hand at a single-player campaign and a TV spin-off for Titanfall 2, according to comments made by lead writer Jesse Stern in an interview with Forbes.
Feb. 8, 2016
Dofus dev unlocks in-game rewards based on movie ticket sales
Dofus dev unlocks in-game rewards based on movie ticket sales
How do you get people to go watch your video game movie? If you're Dofus developer Ankama, you take a page from Kickstarter and tie tiers of in-game rewards to movie ticket sales milestones.
Feb. 8, 2016