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OnLive offering free trials of select IGF 2012 nominees
OnLive offering free trials of select IGF 2012 nominees
Cloud gaming company OnLive announced Monday that it has partnered with the Independent Games Festival to offer a two-week online event in which users can play many of the titles featured at the upcoming IGF 2012.
Feb. 27, 2012
How Lumines' creator uses games as a music-based art form
How Lumines' creator uses games as a music-based art form
According to Lumines and Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi, games are about more than just their gameplay or design -- rather, they can leverage their audio and visual elements to breathe new life into other forms of media.
Feb. 27, 2012
Python's documentation at your fingertips
Python's documentation at your fingertips
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Arrived's senior software engineer Gustavo Ambrozio shares the useful tool he created for searching Python documentation with Dash.
Feb. 27, 2012
Why Sins of a Solar Empire dev Ironclad went free-to-play
Why Sins of a Solar Empire dev Ironclad went free-to-play
Sins of a Solar Empire was a retail and downloadable hit for Ironclad Games, but now its next game, Sins of a Dark Age, is going free-to-play. Cofounder Blair Fraser tells Gamasutra about the big shift.
Feb. 27, 2012
OACP website hacked in protest against Canadian Bill C-30
OACP website hacked in protest against Canadian Bill C-30
The OACP website currently displays a simple message: “Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police - UNDER MAINTENANCE”
Feb. 27, 2012
Agari expands use of DMARC email security standard through new program
Agari expands use of DMARC email security standard through new program
Based on the DMARC email authentication standard announced last month, Agari has launched a receiver program that enables mailbox providers to adopt DMARC and improve their customers’ email security.
Feb. 27, 2012
Azerbaijan Websites Attacked by Iranian hacker
Azerbaijan Websites Attacked by Iranian hacker
According to the communications ministry of Azerbaijan, Several Azerbaijani government websites were attacked by Iranian hackers Wednesday night.
Feb. 25, 2012
In-depth: Comparing floating point numbers, 2012 edition
In-depth: Comparing floating point numbers, 2012 edition
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Valve Software programmer Bruce Dawson continues his series on the floating point format by looking at comparing floating point numbers.
Feb. 24, 2012
Road to the IGF: Powerhead's Async Corp.
Road to the IGF: Powerhead's Async Corp.
As part of Gamasutra's Road to the IGF series, we talk with the developers behind Powerhead Games' saccharine iOS puzzler Async Corp., a finalist for IGF's Best Mobile Game award this year.
Feb. 24, 2012
Best of Indie Games: From The Blocks Cometh to Pizza Vs. Skeletons
Best of Indie Games: From The Blocks Cometh to Pizza Vs. Skeletons
Sister site IndieGames.com looks at the top PC Flash/downloadable indie titles released over the past week, including an Experimental Gameplay's 5 Buttons Competition finalist, and a new pick by provocative designer
Feb. 24, 2012
Top iPad game apps: Midway Arcade heads charts in debut week
Top iPad game apps: Midway Arcade heads charts in debut week
Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Midway Arcade, Cut the Rope: Experiments, and City Friends currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.
Feb. 24, 2012
EA reveals new Medal of Honor title, sans DICE-developed multiplayer
EA reveals new Medal of Honor title, sans DICE-developed multiplayer
EA has announced a new entry in its recently rebooted Medal of Honor franchise, this time putting both the single player and multiplayer elements in the hands of Danger Close Games.
Feb. 24, 2012