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IGDA Leadership Forum: WB Games' Fryer On Bold, Smart Management
IGDA Leadership Forum: WB Games' Fryer On Bold, Smart Management
Laura Fryer, VP and general manager of WB Games Seattle, cautioned team leaders to watch for what she called "pirates on a burning ship," during her IGDA Leadership Forum keynote.
Nov. 5, 2010
IGDA Leadership Forum: Lucien Parsons On The Four Mistakes For Successful Businesses
IGDA Leadership Forum: Lucien Parsons On The Four Mistakes For Successful Businesses
At the IGDA Leadership Forum in San Francisco, 4mm Games operations manager Lucien Parsons discussed the four major traps of successful video game businesses, from abandoning R&D through being trapped by success.
Nov. 5, 2010
Crime City, Ravenwood Fair Lead Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Crime City, Ravenwood Fair Lead Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Gamasutra's bi-weekly look at the fastest-growing Facebook titles examines the recent popularity of Funzio's mafia game Crime City and LOLapps' recently launched sim Ravenwood Fair.
Nov. 5, 2010
DeNA Claims ARPU 30 Times More Than Facebook's As Sales Double
DeNA Claims ARPU 30 Times More Than Facebook's As Sales Double
Japanese social game operator/developer DeNA reported a 216 percent year-over-year jump in its second quarter sales to $336.4 million, and claims its ARPU is 30 times that of Facebook's.
Nov. 5, 2010
Square Enix Launches Two Social RPGs On Facebook
Square Enix Launches Two Social RPGs On Facebook
Developer and publisher Square Enix launched its first Facebook games, Chocobo's Crystal Tower and Knights of the Crystals, both of which are in beta and are free to play.
Nov. 5, 2010
EA Reveals Free-To-Play Core Battlefield
EA Reveals Free-To-Play Core Battlefield
Electronic Arts entered the free-to-play market with Battlefield Heroes, and it's continuing to explore that business model with new division Easy's PC game Battlefield Play4Free, launching in Spring.
Nov. 5, 2010
2011 Independent Games Festival Debuts Record Student Entry Numbers
2011 Independent Games Festival Debuts Record Student Entry Numbers
The organizers of the 13th Annual Independent Games Festival are revealing more than 280 student game entries across all platforms and an overall IGF entry record -- with screenshots and vid
Nov. 5, 2010
Massive DDoS attack knocks Burma offline
Massive DDoS attack knocks Burma offline
A serious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has effectively taken the country of Burma offline. The attack, which started on Tuesday, has reportedly clogged up the country’s main 45 Mbps internet feed, with DDoS packet rates of between 10 and 15 Gbps.
Nov. 5, 2010
ICO planning data breach fines later this month says commissioner
ICO planning data breach fines later this month says commissioner
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is preparing to impose fines on companies that break provisions of the Data Protection Act later this month, the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, has said.
Nov. 5, 2010
Many hands cooperated to build Stuxnet worm
Many hands cooperated to build Stuxnet worm
More than 30 people built Stuxnet worm, noted Brian Tillett, information security researcher at Symantec. Stuxnet has attacked a range of targets including Iranian nuclear facilities and Chinese computers.
Nov. 5, 2010
This Week In Video Game Criticism: The Super-Meat Epic Yarn Boy
This Week In Video Game Criticism: The Super-Meat Epic Yarn Boy
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Ben Abraham, from imaginary Pac-Man anniversaries through Super Meat Boy and Kirby's Epic Yarn analysis
Nov. 4, 2010
IGDA Leadership Forum: PopCap's Unique Take On Social Gaming
IGDA Leadership Forum: PopCap's Unique Take On Social Gaming
At today's Gamasutra-attended IGDA Leadership Forum, PopCap co-founder John Vechey recounts when the company turned down a $60 million buyout offer in 2004, and how it's a bad idea to try to "out-Zynga Zynga."
Nov. 4, 2010