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Analysis: 'Socially Awkward' - Peripheral Visions, Divisions
Analysis: 'Socially Awkward' - Peripheral Visions, Divisions
Continuing his series on social games, game designer Patrick Dugan argues that "social games on Facebook have awful UI design by any common standard of the term."
Aug. 19, 2011
Rovio Partners With Medio To Track Angry Birds Player Analytics
Rovio Partners With Medio To Track Angry Birds Player Analytics
Rovio will utilize Medio Systems' cloud-based predictive analytics platform to better understand its wide-ranging Angry Birds players to optimize game updates and revenue opportunities.
Aug. 19, 2011
Time May Be Running Out For The Videogame History Museum
Time May Be Running Out For The Videogame History Museum
With less than two weeks left on its Kickstarter campaign, the Videogame History Museum may not reach its goal. Organizer Joe Santulli tells Gamasutra what that could mean for the organization's one-of-a-kind collection.
Aug. 19, 2011
Following Acquisition, John Carmack Is Free To Be Himself
Following Acquisition, John Carmack Is Free To Be Himself
When Bethesda parent company ZeniMax acquired id Software two years ago, it freed John Carmack to go back to what he loves best: closing himself off in his office and engulfing hims
Aug. 19, 2011
Roku Licenses Hillcrest Motion Tech For Media Box Game Remote
Roku Licenses Hillcrest Motion Tech For Media Box Game Remote
The motion controller used for gameplay in Roku's new Roku 2 line of media boxes uses technology developed by Hillcrest Labs, the company that recently settled with Nintendo over a patent dispute.
Aug. 19, 2011
GDC 2012: Visual Arts Veterans Hanna, Reid On Tools, Trends For Game Artists
GDC 2012: Visual Arts Veterans Hanna, Reid On Tools, Trends For Game Artists
To help inspire submissions for the GDC 2012 call for papers, Jeff Hanna (Volition) and Steve Reid (Red Storm) spoke out on the challenges facing modern artists, and outlined
Aug. 19, 2011
Researcher discovers distributed bitcoin cracking trojan malware
Researcher discovers distributed bitcoin cracking trojan malware
A Symantec security researcher is reporting the discovery of a trojan that infects and adds users' computers to a processing swarm designed to brute force decrypt the bitcoin electronic currency system, generating as much as $150.00 per infected computer every month.
Aug. 19, 2011
New malware generates reverse text in file names
New malware generates reverse text in file names
A security researcher has warned of a new type of malware that reverses and hides the 'exe' in the name of a file, making an exe file appear, for example, as a text or doc (document) file.
Aug. 19, 2011
Looted smartphones appearing on auction sites, but how can you avoid buying stolen goods?
Looted smartphones appearing on auction sites, but how can you avoid buying stolen goods?
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the typical price of mid-to-high-end smartphones has taken a tumble on internet auction sites such as eBay over the last week or so, suggesting that looters from the London riots are disposing of their stolen goods online.
Aug. 19, 2011
Data breaches cost Indian banks an average of $2.8 million last year
Data breaches cost Indian banks an average of $2.8 million last year
Indian banks lost on average Rs126 million ($2.8 million) last year as a result of data breaches, according to a report by Symantec.
Aug. 19, 2011
Online shopping confidence drops precipitously, survey finds
Online shopping confidence drops precipitously, survey finds
Consumer confidence in the security of online shopping has dropped 11% over the last two years, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of security firm McAfee.
Aug. 19, 2011
Q2 Sales, Profits Decline At GameStop
Q2 Sales, Profits Decline At GameStop
GameStop reported quarterly sales of $1.74 billion, down year-on-year due to "underperforming" new hardware and a light software slate, as profits dropped 23.3 percent. [UPDATE: "Significant increase" in 3DS sales.]
Aug. 18, 2011