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When Company of Heroes vets build the next Age of Empires...
When Company of Heroes vets build the next Age of Empires...
When Smoking Gun Interactive was offered the chance to pitch a mobile Age of Empires to Microsoft, the studio didn't need to be asked twice.
Aug. 28, 2014
Phoenix Labs is a new studio from former League of Legends vets
Phoenix Labs is a new studio from former League of Legends vets
A band of ex-Riot Games veterans have come together to form a new studio in Vancouver, with a focus on AAA multiplayer titles.
Aug. 28, 2014
GDC Next adds fresh talks on F2P design and app store conquest
GDC Next adds fresh talks on F2P design and app store conquest
The cofounder of YetiZen shares secret strategies for gaming the app stores and Ethan Levy offers tips on designing ethical, successful free-to-play games at GDC Next 2014 featuring ADC.
Aug. 28, 2014
Get a job: Cryptic Studios is hiring Software Engineers 2
Get a job: Cryptic Studios is hiring Software Engineers 2
The house that built Neverwinter is looking for programmers to join their Los Gatos, CA-based studio and work on massively multiplayer online games.
Aug. 28, 2014
Video: Miegakure dev offers perspective on designing 4D movement
Video: Miegakure dev offers perspective on designing 4D movement
A new promotional video for Marc Ten Bosch's 4D puzzler Miegakure seeks to explain how the game implements four-dimensional movement as a puzzle-solving mechanic.
Aug. 28, 2014
Wii U eShop audience is 93 percent male, 18-plus
Wii U eShop audience is 93 percent male, 18-plus
According to new stats released by the company at Unity's Unite event in Seattle, Nintendo's audience for download games isn't as young as you might expect.
Aug. 28, 2014
IGDA issues statement condemning harassment
IGDA issues statement condemning harassment
The International Game Developers Association responds to events where developers and other industry members have been "the subject of harassment and 'doxxing' attacks."
Aug. 28, 2014
'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over.
'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over.
'Game culture' as we know it is kind of embarrassing -- it’s not even culture. It’s buying things, spackling over memes and in-jokes repeatedly, and it’s getting mad on the internet.
Aug. 28, 2014
UK Justice Ministry Fined £180k After Prisoner Data Breach
UK Justice Ministry Fined £180k After Prisoner Data Breach
UK Justice Ministry Fined £180k After Prisoner Data Breach. ICO slams prisons service for failing to activate encryption on hard drive
Aug. 27, 2014
Former US Government Cyber Security Boss Convicted of Tor Pedophile Offences
Former US Government Cyber Security Boss Convicted of Tor Pedophile Offences
Former US Government Cyber Security Boss Convicted of Tor Pedophile Offences. FBI’s controversial Operation Torpedo claims another scalp
Aug. 27, 2014
Verizon Adds QR Codes to Authentication Mix
Verizon Adds QR Codes to Authentication Mix
Enterprises and web pages can add mobile codes to a 'post-password' identty management approach.
Aug. 27, 2014
Five Reasons to Upgrade Cisco’s CMX to MSE 8.0 Today
Five Reasons to Upgrade Cisco’s CMX to MSE 8.0 Today
The highly anticipated Wireless Release 8.0 came out last week, and among the feature updates is a key set of enhancements and new modules for Cisco’s CMX solution that...
Aug. 27, 2014