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This week in Video Game Criticism: From the Krogan to revenge eating
This week in Video Game Criticism: From the Krogan to revenge eating
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Kris Ligman on topics including how Mass Effect's Krogan are analogous to white man's burden, and more.
April 10, 2012
Mortal Kombat developer sees a fighting game future in Vita
Mortal Kombat developer sees a fighting game future in Vita
Mortal Kombat franchise producer Hector Sanchez talks about the interesting considerations in working on the Vita, and the new opportunities for fighting franchises in the current generation.
April 10, 2012
What an Englishman does in bed
What an Englishman does in bed
Companies that monitor the end point behavior of their remote workers will have to start monitoring their (internet) behavior in bed. That at least is the inference to be drawn from a new street survey conducted by Infosecurity Europe.
April 10, 2012
Real-time data mining comes to Twitter
Real-time data mining comes to Twitter
Twitter is usually described as a micro-blogging social network. To many who monitor its ‘trending topics’ it is also an early warning news service, frequently pointing users to breaking news before the traditional news media reports it.
April 10, 2012
Utah increases estimate of Medicaid data breach 10-fold
Utah increases estimate of Medicaid data breach 10-fold
The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) is now admitting that social security numbers of up to 280,000 individuals were stolen from the Department of Technology Services server, a 10-fold increase from the original estimate.
April 10, 2012
Google fixes SSL certificate bug in Chrome browser
Google fixes SSL certificate bug in Chrome browser
Google has released an update for Chrome that fixes a problem with the SSL certificate when users attempt to connect to sites over HTTPS.
April 10, 2012
Anonymous attacks high-tech trade groups over support for CISPA
Anonymous attacks high-tech trade groups over support for CISPA
Anonymous claimed credit for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against a number of high-tech trade groups in retaliation for their support of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
April 10, 2012
Adobe plugs security holes in Reader and Acrobat, adds free e-signature to Reader
Adobe plugs security holes in Reader and Acrobat, adds free e-signature to Reader
Adobe has shipped updates for Reader and Acrobat that fix four security holes that could cause the application to crash and allow an attacker to take control of an affected system.
April 10, 2012
Simulating a loaded dice in a constant time
Simulating a loaded dice in a constant time
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Crytek's technical lead Jaewon Jung explains how to simulate loaded dice using the alias method algorithm, and shares his C++ implementation.
April 9, 2012
Lightning wearing Prada and more in this week's Japanese news roundup
Lightning wearing Prada and more in this week's Japanese news roundup
Gamasutra rounds up recent reports on the Japanese games industry from local news site Andriasang.com, including a Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Prada collaboration, Kingdom Hearts 3D, and more.
April 9, 2012
Commodore founder Jack Tramiel passes away
Commodore founder Jack Tramiel passes away
Jack Tramiel, a Holocaust survivor, game industry pioneer and an essential figure in the personal computer industry, reportedly passed away on Sunday. He was 83 years old.
April 9, 2012
Top iPhone game apps: Skylanders: Cloud Patrol takes on Clear Vision
Top iPhone game apps: Skylanders: Cloud Patrol takes on Clear Vision
Gamasutra rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from Clear Vision and Skylanders: Cloud Patrol to Kick the Boss and more.
April 9, 2012