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Journey's Hunicke: The industry must come together, evolve, and innovate
Journey's Hunicke: The industry must come together, evolve, and innovate
"No one would have given money to Notch for Minecraft -- now look! That kind of effort comes from a genuine love for the medium itself..."
July 8, 2015
Yokoi remembers Nintendo's struggle to understand his Game Boy
Yokoi remembers Nintendo's struggle to understand his Game Boy
In an interview from '97 newly translated and published by Shmuplations, Gunpei Yokoi shares some intriguing opinions on his approach to game design and the state of console games in the '90s.
July 8, 2015
Keep tabs on who's streaming your game where with Gamoloco
Keep tabs on who's streaming your game where with Gamoloco
Gamoloco hopes to capitalize on the rising value of livestreaming by offering a service that lets you track who's streaming your game where, for how long, and how many people are watching.
July 8, 2015
AirLive IP Surveillance Cameras Allow Remote Access
AirLive IP Surveillance Cameras Allow Remote Access
The user needs to specify in the configuration of the camera that HTTPS is used for communications—this is not enabled by default.
July 7, 2015
Hacking Team Hacked in 400GB Breach
Hacking Team Hacked in 400GB Breach
Hacking Team Hacked in 400GB Breach.Controversial intrusion software company on the receiving end
July 7, 2015
Trend Micro Teams Up with NCA to Bust Cyber-criminals
Trend Micro Teams Up with NCA to Bust Cyber-criminals
Trend Micro Teams Up with NCA to Bust Cyber-criminals. Security giant will form virtual team with the agency after MoU is signed
July 7, 2015
OpenSSL to Patch Critical Mystery Bug on Thursday
OpenSSL to Patch Critical Mystery Bug on Thursday
Unfortunately, like Heartbleed, the mystery bug is likely to be a big deal. OpenSSL is a basic component of a wide swath of the web.
July 7, 2015
NSA Search Engine Taps Into Global Comms to Intercept, Well, Everything
NSA Search Engine Taps Into Global Comms to Intercept, Well, Everything
The XKeyscore search engine hoovers up vast amounts of private communications information, including 700,000 voice, fax and video files every day.
July 7, 2015
10 Pieces of Career Advice Cisco Employees Would Give Our 20-Year-Old Selves
10 Pieces of Career Advice Cisco Employees Would Give Our 20-Year-Old Selves
Some of our Cisco employees were excited to attend a recent event in San Jose called...
July 7, 2015
Video: Innovating interactive fiction with 80 Days' Jon Ingold
Video: Innovating interactive fiction with 80 Days' Jon Ingold
At GDC 2015 Inkle co-founder Jon Ingold explains how the outfit's design strategies evolved to produce games like 80 Days, and how it successfully fields interactive fiction games on mobile devices.
July 7, 2015
A comprehensive look at Valve's final Steam Controller
A comprehensive look at Valve's final Steam Controller
"The new Steam Controller has positioned itself as the most universal controller out there, able to work with all of your games to some degree or another."
July 7, 2015
Learn how League of Legends is combating toxicity - right now
Learn how League of Legends is combating toxicity - right now
"As a result of these governance systems... Verbal abuse has dropped by more than 40%, and 91.6% of negative players change their act and never commit another offense after just one reported penalty."
July 7, 2015