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Gazillion's Fiden: Gaming's Shift From Products To Services 'Cannot Be Overstated'
Gazillion's Fiden: Gaming's Shift From Products To Services 'Cannot Be Overstated'
Gazillion Entertainment's Dan Fiden recently told Gamasutra about the digital market transition, noting that the trend toward games as a service marks "a tremendous shift" for publishers and developers alike.
July 28, 2011
Pirate link aggregator Newzbin vows to retaliate against blocks
Pirate link aggregator Newzbin vows to retaliate against blocks
The resurrected Newzbin website that aggregates links to pirated films has threatened to break BT's internet filtering system if any attempts are made to block the site.
July 28, 2011
BeyondTrust makes yet another purchase – scoops up GentleSecurity
BeyondTrust makes yet another purchase – scoops up GentleSecurity
Carlsbad, Calif.-based BeyondTrust announced its latest in a string of deals – this time acquiring DLP specialists GentleSecurity of Luxembourg.
July 28, 2011
Hackers raid 35 million South Korean website accounts
Hackers raid 35 million South Korean website accounts
Hackers have stolen personal data from 35 million accounts at a South Korean social networking site and a web services portal, in the latest of a series of cyber attacks on government and financial firms.
July 28, 2011
Safari, Firefox, and Chrome disappoint in browser security testing, as IE9 stands out
Safari, Firefox, and Chrome disappoint in browser security testing, as IE9 stands out
The Apple Safari 5, Mozilla Firefox 4, and Google Chrome 10 browsers each caught only 15% of live socially engineered malware samples, according to NSS Labs’ tests of web browser protection for European users.
July 28, 2011
Most organizations do not follow security best practices, survey finds
Most organizations do not follow security best practices, survey finds
A majority of organizations are not applying information security best practices, according to a survey by Venafi, an enterprise key and certificate management firm, and research firm Echelon One.
July 28, 2011
EA Wants Origin To Be The 'HBO Meets Netflix' Of Gaming
EA Wants Origin To Be The 'HBO Meets Netflix' Of Gaming
As part of a Gamasutra-attended conference call, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello stated that the company's own digital gaming platform Origin has seen "similar revenues" when comparing sales of EA games on Steam.
July 27, 2011
Opinion: Synchronous RTS Engines 2: Sync Harder
Opinion: Synchronous RTS Engines 2: Sync Harder
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Uber Entertainment's Forrest Smith follows up his piece on synchronous engines for real-time strategy games like Supreme Commander, answering questions abou
July 27, 2011
Opinion: Round-Robin Programming
Opinion: Round-Robin Programming
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Naughty Dog ICE Team's Cort Stratton presents an idea for helping students learn how to read, decipher, and work with others' code through round-robin programming.
July 27, 2011
Report: Just 10 Publishers Claim Over Half Of Top 300 Paid iPhone Games
Report: Just 10 Publishers Claim Over Half Of Top 300 Paid iPhone Games
Mobile application analytics company Distimo has released a new mobile gaming trends report, noting that just 10 publishers account for more than half of all downloads in the top 300 most popular paid games for iPhone.
July 27, 2011
Third Humble Indie Bundle See 105K Downloads, $500K Sales In 17 Hours
Third Humble Indie Bundle See 105K Downloads, $500K Sales In 17 Hours
The third Humble Indie Bundle, which houses such popular indie games as VVVVVV and Cogs, has received over 105,000 purchases in just under 17 hours, with more than $500,000 paid out in total.
July 27, 2011
New Research Startup To Identify Key Traits In MMO Players
New Research Startup To Identify Key Traits In MMO Players
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have signed an agreement to launch a new analytics software startup that will identify key traits in MMO players, and allow developers to enhance user experience.
July 27, 2011