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Digital Chocolate Sims, FrontierVille Lead Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Digital Chocolate Sims, FrontierVille Lead Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Gamasutra's bi-weekly look at the fastest-growing Facebook titles examines the expanding audiences of Digital Chocolate's Sims-like Vegas City and Zynga staple FrontierVille.
Dec. 2, 2010
Veterans Protest Black Ops Tournament Held In Sacramento Public Library
Veterans Protest Black Ops Tournament Held In Sacramento Public Library
Sacramento Public Library defends decision to hold Call of Duty: Black Ops tournament on the premises in the face of heated criticism from veteran groups who argue that the role of a public library is for "learning, not learning to kill".
Dec. 2, 2010
2010 GDC China Confirms Final Schedule, Adds Ngmoco, Zynga Talks
2010 GDC China Confirms Final Schedule, Adds Ngmoco, Zynga Talks
GDC China organizers have now debuted a completed schedule for the December 5th-7th Shanghai event, with late additions including Ngmoco's Caryl Shaw and Zynga Beijing's Andy Tiang.
Dec. 2, 2010
Ernest Adams Denies Twinkies To Bad Boss Battle, Save Point Designers
Ernest Adams Denies Twinkies To Bad Boss Battle, Save Point Designers
Freelance game designer and writer Ernest Adams' latest Designer's Notebook outlines several "Twinkie denial conditions" for developers that make bad design choi
Dec. 2, 2010
OnLive Introduces Flat Rate Netflix-Like Pay Option
OnLive Introduces Flat Rate Netflix-Like Pay Option
Cloud-based game streaming service OnLive is introducing a $9.99 a month flat-rate plan, a package that lets users pay a-la-carte for access to new or "top-tier" titles while receiving unlimited access to everything else.
Dec. 2, 2010
Nintendo's Wii Speak Peripheral Phasing Out At Retail
Nintendo's Wii Speak Peripheral Phasing Out At Retail
Nintendo appears to be phasing out its Wii Speak peripheral. The Wii's first-party voice chat mic will now be available only at "limited retail locations," with further shipments made only "if consumer demand increases."
Dec. 2, 2010
Playfish's Segerstrale Talks Quality, Player Focus After The Facebook Gold Rush
Playfish's Segerstrale Talks Quality, Player Focus After The Facebook Gold Rush
Facebook has "poured petrol on" the digital gold rush, marking the end of an era for enormous growth in social games -- but Playfish's Segerstrale says now's the time to focus on quality and earning player respect.
Dec. 2, 2010
Zynga Acquires Games With Friends Developer Newtoy
Zynga Acquires Games With Friends Developer Newtoy
Zynga has acquired Newtoy, developer of the With Friends series of iPhone games and We Rule, and on a conference call both companies talked "the next great frontier for social gaming."
Dec. 2, 2010
Network access control still not taking off, says Forrester
Network access control still not taking off, says Forrester
Despite a lot of discussion in the media, it seems that only 10% of security organisations in Europe and North America are planning to implement network access control (NAC) technology in the next 12 months.
Dec. 2, 2010
Mass injection attack on WordPress blogs revealed
Mass injection attack on WordPress blogs revealed
An IT security researcher claims to have uncovered a sophisticated mass injection attack that uses a polymorphic obfuscation attack vector, and has been used to target WordPress blogs at a US-based hosting provider.
Dec. 2, 2010
Russia tops Kaspersky Labs’ list of global spammers
Russia tops Kaspersky Labs’ list of global spammers
Russia has finally buried the US…in spam. Russia topped the list of sources of global spam, with the US a distant 18th, according to Kaspersky Labs’ October spam report.
Dec. 2, 2010
Virtualization benefits also come with security risks
Virtualization benefits also come with security risks
With the growth in the popularity of virtualization comes attendant security risks, noted a recent white paper from the global IT association ISACA.
Dec. 2, 2010