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2011 Independent Games Festival Announces Excellence in Design Jury
2011 Independent Games Festival Announces Excellence in Design Jury
Organizers of the 2011 Independent Games Festival have debuted the Excellence in Design jury ahead of Monday's finalist announcement, including the creators of Plants Vs. Zombies, Journey and Monaco.
Dec. 29, 2010
Mozilla admits to possible leak of user information
Mozilla admits to possible leak of user information
Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, admitted that it accidentally posted sensitive information about the users of its addons.mozilla.org site to a public web server.
Dec. 29, 2010
Husband faces five years in jail for hacking wife’s email account
Husband faces five years in jail for hacking wife’s email account
Computer technician Leon Walker faces five years in jail for hacking into his wife’s email account to confirm suspicions that she was having an affair with her ex-husband.
Dec. 29, 2010
Phoenix exploit hacker kit methodology explained
Phoenix exploit hacker kit methodology explained
Websense has posted a detailed analysis of the Phoenix Exploit kit, which is used by hackers to seed and infect users' PCs across the internet, and then monitor the results for data harvesting.
Dec. 29, 2010
Row breaks out over alleged Chip and PIN security flaw censorship
Row breaks out over alleged Chip and PIN security flaw censorship
A row that has been brewing between the payment card 'establishment' and researchers with Cambridge University, who have previously claimed that the Chip & PIN security system seen in UK bank payment cards is flawed, has spilled out into the open.
Dec. 29, 2010
Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 Facebook Social Games
Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 Facebook Social Games
In this round-up of the year's top Facebook-hosted titles, sister site Worlds in Motion's editor Eric Caoili examines the top social games that've broken away to focus on depth and engaging gameplay.
Dec. 28, 2010
Feature: How Zynga's CityVille Has Compelled 70 Million Players
Feature: How Zynga's CityVille Has Compelled 70 Million Players
In a new Gamasutra feature, design veteran Tadhg Kelly examines some of the factors that have attracted over 70 million people to CityVille, Zynga's latest over
Dec. 28, 2010
Activision: Over 20 Million Black Ops Players Log More Than 600 Million Hours
Activision: Over 20 Million Black Ops Players Log More Than 600 Million Hours
Call of Duty: Black Ops players apparently numbering more than 20 million have logged more than 600 million man-hours with the game in the 45 days since its November 9 release, Activision has revealed.
Dec. 28, 2010
Analyst Sees Kinect Edging Out Move In 2011
Analyst Sees Kinect Edging Out Move In 2011
An analysis by Screen Digest predicts Sony will add 7.3 million PlayStation Move-enabled consoles in calendar 2011, falling just behind predicted sales of 7.6 million Xbox 360 Kinect units for Microsoft. [UPDATE: Numbers clarified.]
Dec. 28, 2010
In-Depth: What The (Game) Papers Say - December 2010, Pt. 2
In-Depth: What The (Game) Papers Say - December 2010, Pt. 2
Magazine veteran Kevin Gifford takes a look at the latest video game mags, this time looking at a surprising Official Xbox Magazine ad and some of the final magazines released in 2010.
Dec. 28, 2010
Germany to set up cyber defense center in response to growing threats
Germany to set up cyber defense center in response to growing threats
Because of a major increase in cyber attacks this year, the German government plans to set up a national cyber defense center in 2011.
Dec. 28, 2010
Opinion: Fable III - The Good, The Bad, And The Surprising
Opinion: Fable III - The Good, The Bad, And The Surprising
Gamasutra contributor Connor Cleary is a fan of Lionhead's Fable games -- but not blindly. In this opinion piece, he enumerates the good and the bad of Fable III, and how it stacks up against the previous two games.
Dec. 27, 2010