"On a given title, the interactive designer will be responsible for generation of core gameplay concepts and mechanics in partnership with the lead writer, and then evangelizing this vision to the greater team."

Nintendo has once again outsold its competitors with the 3DS taking the top spot for best-selling game platform for a third month running -- once again carried significantly by Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

"I don't want to [use] shock value just to shock," Splinter Cell Blacklist director Maxime Béland tells Gamasutra, in explaining why the team scaled back depictions of brutal interrogation.

The Fullbright Company's Gone Home is elegant narrative, but as a work of design, it's equally so. Steve Gaynor explains the human story born from a history of environmental design. Spoiler-free!

The Dalai Lama and his supporters have been under almost continuous cyber attack for years. In a new ‘don’t go there’ announcement, a security researcher warned Monday that the Chinese language version of his website has been compromised in a new water hole attack that delivers a backdoor trojan.

News emerged last week that a London firm had been installing wifi snooping equipment in London recycle bins, spying on the mobile phones of passers-by. But the City of London authorities have moved quickly with a cease and desist instruction.

Considering the hyper-connected world that we live in, a good security mantra should be: if it can be connected to the web, it can be hacked. Even light bulbs. Yes, even light bulbs.

Web page spoofing just got easier: One of the defenses against Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning and web address spoofing lies in the randomization of the IP address of the queried name server. But a newly found vulnerability in BIND, the most widely used DNS software on the internet, enables an attacker to de-randomize the queries—greatly reducing the time and effort required to successfully poison BIND's cache.

"I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years . . . Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all

Social game company Zynga has been shedding executives for a while now, as top employees leave one by one. This week, another handful dropped out as new CEO Don Mattrick looks to tighten the top ranks.

Valve has rolled a user-to-user marketplace feature for CS:GO, including the purchase and sale of weapons, decorations and a promise for upcoming workshop integration.