Rumors have been circulating for months now that the next Xbox games console will require an "always-on" internet connection. Now a Microsoft exec has sparked fury online by telling people to "deal with it."

Social games company Zynga is still shedding top executives, but it has a new plan to retain its top staff: The company has boosted its top executive salaries in a bid to keep its top signings on board.

Courtesy of the GDC Vault, Myst co-creator and sound composer Robyn Miller shared at GDC 2013 the design and production details behind one of gaming's most iconic first-person adventures.

Here's our last One Life Left vs. Gamasutra episode of GDC 2013, recorded on the show floor at lunchtime on Friday with a tremendous stream of guests, gently interrogated.

In the postmortem for the April 2013 issue of GD Mag, Garth DeAngelis, lead producer on XCOM: Enemy Unknown, discusses the decisions that went into building an optional, integrated tutorial into the game.

A year ago Flashback became the most prolific ever Mac virus, infecting an estimated 650,000 Macs. Now researcher and blogger Brian Krebs names the man he believes to have authored the trojan.

Policing is intelligence led. Social media is a prime source of intelligence (SOCMINT – social media intelligence). To maximize the potential in SOCMINT it is suggested that the police should develop a central hub of social media expertise.

Bitcoin, the virtual currency employed for various web-related transactions, has been enjoying an epic valuation the last few days, reaching an all-time high of $142 per BTC this week according to trading platform Mt. Gox. That translates into $1 billion in BTC circulation, and the smell of money has apparently attracted hackers to the well: Two separate attacks, aimed at Mt. Gox as well as Instawallet, have caused major Bitcoin service interruptions.

The effects of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon are being felt across the US military, according to a report from the US Inspector General’s office. It found that US military data security is woefully lacking when it comes to device tracking and policy enforcement. Most alarmingly, the military CIO’s office was found to be unaware of more than 14,000 mobile devices in active use across the US Army.

We recently discussed the perfect IT storm that is currently brewing in business. BYOD, Unified Access, Video, the Many Clouds, SDN… all happening at

The Big Data revolution continues to make inroads into the healthcare space, where it’s helping reduce hospital readmissions, improve point-of-care

Mobile devices have quickly become a mainstay in enterprise environments and continue to be consumer driven, and yet they find their way into our day-to-day business lives. As these new devices are being brought into the work environment by employees, enterprise IT is increasingly being forced to accommodate for business use. This is not new news. We observe this pattern through our customers today and live this phenomenon within our own everyday work environment at Cisco. Here at Cisco, employees have the flexibility to choose their device and to securely connect to voice, video and data services from anywhere under …