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Report: News Corp Offloads MySpace For $35M
Report: News Corp Offloads MySpace For $35M
Once-mighty online social network MySpace has finally found a new home, as advertising network Specific Media has acquired the company for an alleged $35 million, well under its $100 million price tag.
June 29, 2011
Game Education Summit Rescheduled To August
Game Education Summit Rescheduled To August
The annual Game Education Summit, a gathering of educational professionals to discuss best teaching practices for game dev education, has been rescheduled to August to coincide with the Serious Play Conference.
June 29, 2011
Dead Island Trailer Honored With Advertising Award
Dead Island Trailer Honored With Advertising Award
The popular CGI trailer for Deep Silver and Techland's upcoming Dead Island took home a Golden Lion prize in the internet Film category of a recent advertising awards show.
June 29, 2011
Gamevil Acquires Cartoon Wars In First Phase Of $10M Investment
Gamevil Acquires Cartoon Wars In First Phase Of $10M Investment
Korean mobile game publisher Gamevil has announced a $10 million initiative for partnerships with external developers to broaden its lineup, starting with the partial acquisition of the Cartoon Wars series.
June 29, 2011
Howard Marks' Gamzee Secures $1M For HTML5 Game Development
Howard Marks' Gamzee Secures $1M For HTML5 Game Development
Former Activision executive and Acclaim Games owner Howard Marks has secured $1 million in seed funding for his new venture, Gamzee, which will develop cross-platform games on the HTML5 format.
June 29, 2011
Iwata: Wii U's More Conventional Controller Brings The Core Back To Nintendo
Iwata: Wii U's More Conventional Controller Brings The Core Back To Nintendo
Traditional core gamers will return to Nintendo thanks to the Wii U controller's more standard layout, according to the company, saying they were turned off by the Wii's remote.
June 29, 2011
Core-Focused Social Game Developer Kabam Expands To Europe
Core-Focused Social Game Developer Kabam Expands To Europe
Global Warfare and Kingdoms of Camelot developer Kabam has opened a new European office, which will focus on localization and customer support for its international market.
June 29, 2011
Security researcher claims banks are key to killing rogue online pharmacies
Security researcher claims banks are key to killing rogue online pharmacies
A leading security researcher claims that more than half of all sales at the world's largest rogue internet pharmacy in the last four years were charged to credit and debit cards issued by the top seven card-issuing banks.
June 29, 2011
Cellcrypt introduces 256-bit random-seeded encryption telephony for the iPhone
Cellcrypt introduces 256-bit random-seeded encryption telephony for the iPhone
Cellcrypt has extended its public key cryptography service to users of the Apple iPhone, adding to the apps already available for the Symbian, Blackberry and Android platforms.
June 29, 2011
New group of hacktivists claim downing of MasterCard website
New group of hacktivists claim downing of MasterCard website
A new group of hacktivists associated with the AntiSec movement claim to have staged a major DDoS attack against MasterCard, apparently in connection with the long-running controversy over the removal of card processing facilities for the WikiLeaks group.
June 29, 2011
FBI raids Iowa woman's home as part of LulzSec probe
FBI raids Iowa woman's home as part of LulzSec probe
FBI agents raided an Iowa woman’s home this week looking for information on the Lulz Security (LulzSec) hacker group that had been on a 50-day hacking spree before an alleged member of its group was arrested in the UK.
June 29, 2011
Google ads security features for Gmail to help reduce phishing
Google ads security features for Gmail to help reduce phishing
Today Google announced it will be adding new features to Gmail accounts in an effort to reduce the effectiveness of phishing emails.
June 29, 2011