Linden Labs cut off development of Versu, mothballed the completed games created using the interactive fiction, and let developer Emily Short go. Gamasutra speaks to her about what she accomplished.

Screenshots depicting non-functional 1-day and 7-day rental options for select games on PlayStation Network are circulating online today in the wake of Sony's most recent weekly PlayStation Store update.

A tech blogger claims to have found photographs of a production-grade, Amazon-branded Bluetooth gamepad in official documents published by Brazilian telecommunications regulatory agency Anatel.

Tale of Tales spreads sex and joy with its Nuovo Award nominee Luxuria Superbia, and Gamasutra speaks to the creative duo to find out more about the thinking behind it.

Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic PS3 action game, nominated for multiple categories of next week's Game Developers Choice Awards, continues to sell well in the wake of the Left Behind DLC release.

Designer/artist Michael Brough explains the design process of his Sokoban-esque Corrypt and the value he found in building a game about "making a right mess of the world so that a number can go up."

The latest revelations from the Snowden files, published by Glenn Greenwald's new venture The Intercept, show that NSA thinking has followed the same arguments developed by cybercriminals: if you wish to control a large number of subjects (infected computers) you need to automate the process with a command and control server. This is a botnet.

The leader of an identity theft ring that stole more than 600 identities from US government employees and others has been sentenced to serve 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.

Industrial control systems (ICS) are a notorious weak link when it comes to securing mission-critical infrastructure, but progress in overhauling cyber-practices for this legacy software seems to be moving along at a snail’s pace. Case in point: yet another system, deployed in thousands of locations globally and often exposed to the internet, has been found to be eminently vulnerable.

The largest retail breach in history happened at Target stores all over the country during the busy 2013 holiday shopping season, sparking 90+ lawsuits, a Congressional hearing, corporate restructuring and plummeting sales figures for the big-box retailer. But according to a report, it all could have been prevented – had the retail giant simply listened to its own internal early warning systems.

With the infiltration of handheld devices into virtually every aspect of our consumer and enterprise lives, mobile networks should be considered critical infrastructure with high impact on public welfare and safety; and cyber-security should be addressed accordingly. That’s the premise behind Nokia Solutions and Networks’ plans to establish a Mobile Broadband Security Center in Berlin.

Since Henry Ford, the alchemy of turning raw materials into mass-produced products has been complicated and challenging. At best, it has been a delicate