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Blitz Games Studios Announces 'One-Stop Shop' Indie Portal
Blitz Games Studios Announces 'One-Stop Shop' Indie Portal
Aiming to create an online portal for independent games, Blitz Games Studios has launched IndieCity, an effort it says hopes will offer gamers and developers a "one-stop shop" for indie titles.
Nov. 30, 2010
Middle East's Game Industry Creates Islam-Centric Game Ratings
Middle East's Game Industry Creates Islam-Centric Game Ratings
The Iran National Foundation of Computer Games used the Dubai World Game Expo to stage the unveiling of a new ratings body for the Middle East, which evaluates game content against the values of Islam.
Nov. 30, 2010
Gartner predicts cyber attack will seriously damage G20 economy by 2015
Gartner predicts cyber attack will seriously damage G20 economy by 2015
A G20 country will be hit by major cyber attack by 2015, Garter predicts.
Nov. 30, 2010
IBM launches apprenticeship scheme for school leavers
IBM launches apprenticeship scheme for school leavers
IBM has launched an apprenticeship scheme for 15 school leavers in a bid to develop its current and future workforce.
Nov. 30, 2010
Iran confirms Stuxnet hit uranium enrichment centrifuges
Iran confirms Stuxnet hit uranium enrichment centrifuges
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has confirmed that the Stuxnet computer worm affected centrifuges in the country's uranium enrichment program.
Nov. 30, 2010
Small-scale DDoS hack takes down WikiLeaks site
Small-scale DDoS hack takes down WikiLeaks site
The hacker who took down the WikiLeaks site just hours before it was set to publish leaked US documents used a relatively small-scale, application-level distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Arbor Networks.
Nov. 30, 2010
This Week in Video Game Criticism: The Fable Of New Experiences
This Week in Video Game Criticism: The Fable Of New Experiences
Ben Abraham brings us a fresh new roundup of links to game criticism on the web, including discourse on moral decisions in Fable 3, the need for new experiences in the "AAA" space, and much more.
Nov. 29, 2010
Top iPhone Game Apps: EA Wins Big On Black Friday
Top iPhone Game Apps: EA Wins Big On Black Friday
Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, with reduced-price EA games making a strong showing.
Nov. 29, 2010
Best of FingerGaming: From Trucks and Skulls to Gunstar Heroes
Best of FingerGaming: From Trucks and Skulls to Gunstar Heroes
Every week, Gamasutra sums up sister iPhone and iPad site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's nascent portable game platforms -- this time covering BulleTrain, Gunstar Heroes, and the awaited iO
Nov. 29, 2010
Sony, Microsoft Patent New Touchscreen Technologies
Sony, Microsoft Patent New Touchscreen Technologies
Patents filed by Sony and Microsoft suggest both companies may be planning to take touch screen technologies in interesting new directions, with potential applications for future game platforms.
Nov. 29, 2010
IPKeys Using Xaitment AI For Counter-IED Simulation
IPKeys Using Xaitment AI For Counter-IED Simulation
IPKeys Technologies announced today it will be using technology from Xaitment to power a simulation designed to train U.S. forces to identify and avoid improvised explosive devices in the field.
Nov. 29, 2010
Microsoft: Kinect Sells 2.5M Worldwide In First 25 Days
Microsoft: Kinect Sells 2.5M Worldwide In First 25 Days
Microsoft announced today that Kinect, its new 3D-camera-based Xbox 360 controller, has sold 2.5 million units worldwide in its first 25 days of retail availability, maintaining sales momentum seen immediately after launch.
Nov. 29, 2010