Bronwen Grimes, technical artist on CS:GO, talked today about the road to discovering exactly what skins players wanted, and how they differed from Valve's original thoughts on the matter.

Spencer sat down with Gamasutra editor-in-chief Kris Graft for a fireside chat about the platform -- but his answers, when taken as whole, point to the fact that the Xbox One is still a work in progress.

Koji Igarashi, who helped found a genre with the definitive Castlevania: Symphony of the Night spoke about his defining work at GDC, and the unique design and story decisions that shaped it.

In this extensive new interview with Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney conducted at GDC, he explains the engine's new pricing structure and the decisions made in developing it.

Hearthstone designer Eric Dodds took the stage at GDC 2014 to shed light on the game’s creation and share design lessons learned by a small team building a digital card game within Blizzard.

John Cartwright, the operator of Full Disclosure, announced yesterday that he has shut down the mailing list. His own post, 'Administrivia: The End', is the final entry. It was always a controversial service, frequently publishing vulnerability details before vendors had patches available, but the manner of its passing has surprised many.

EA Games, maker of popular gaming series including Sims, Plants vs. Zombies, Star Wars Battlefront and others, has been attacked by hackers bent on compromising more than a virtual rebel base. A server for its website has come under fire and is now hosting a phishing site that targets Apple ID account holders.

Digital channels such as mobile devices, social networks and cloud platforms offer the perfect connected footprint for bad actors probing for weaknesses and vulnerabilities to carry out everything from tax evasion, money laundering and cyber-attacks to threats from inside the organization. So, looking to take on the scammers and the grifters, IBM has announced a new initiative to use Big Data and analytics to address the $3.5 trillion lost each year to fraud and financial crimes.

Back in October 2013, a public exploit for the PHP server-side framework was disclosed, using a command injection vulnerability found in May 2012 and categorized as CVE-2012-1823. Now, it appears that cybercriminals are still using it, despite the vulnerability being somewhat dated, because a major part of the install base of PHP does not get updated on a regular basis. It’s an easily solvable security hole that’s led to increasing levels of botnet attacks on big swaths of the public internet.

Retail analytics have been around for a dog’s age, allowing stores – whether virtual or real – to track customer behavior and offer up related offerings accordingly. It’s a central part of the up-sell and cross-sell process that keeps the sector humming along with repeat business.

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