Riccitiello has always been an infinitely quotable executive, which is great fodder for journalists like us. He's always been direct, off-the-cuff and, when needed, can even hit below his competition's belt a little bit.

Steam is allowing developers to gain early feedback (and bug reports!) from its community of players through its Early Access program, which lets those interested buy a game ahead of its final release date.

A railroading sim called Train Fever was just crowdfunded for 250,000 euros ($323,000). What's the big deal? The "donators" are actually treated as investors, who will receive half of the total revenues.

Our Road to the IGF interview series talks to The Fullbright Company's Steve Gaynor about Gone Home, a first person exploration game that's earned an Excellence in Narrative nomination.

A fierce advocate for studio independence, Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor found himself facing studio closure, or an acquisition by one of the most successful online developers around.

It has long been suggested that ‘advanced’ is a misnomer in the majority of APTs; and that ‘sophisticated’ has lost its meaning. Is it time for an objective attack rating to eliminate emotive, subjective and misleading threat terminology?

Earlier this month at the CanSecWest security conference, Google’s Chrome team took part in the Pwn2Own hacking contest and hosted its own, the third iteration of its Pwnium competition. While there weren’t any “winning” entries at Pwnium – i.e., no full exploits against the browser were developed – Google did pay out a partial reward to the teen hacker who appears to be making Chrome a bit of a specialty.

A new handbook created for NATO has set out 95 black-letter rules of cyber warfare that, among other recommendations, states that governments should refrain from launching attacks on civilians, hospitals, nuclear power stations, dams and dykes.

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Kiss your old running shoes good-bye. Change is constant. And technology has always been about change and convergence. But the massive, global-scale

With a Wednesday evening pre-reg deadline, GDC 2013 is highlighting a playable board game exhibit from video game designers, plus multiple game history exhibits spanning The Neverhood through classic Sega games.

After previously modelling his home town in the new SimCity, UK editor Mike Rose sets about diagnosing the problems with crime and other issues in GTA IV's Liberty City.