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Sony enters the cloud with Gaikai acquisition
Sony enters the cloud with Gaikai acquisition
Sony Computer Entertainment put a significant foot forward into the cloud gaming space today, as it revealed that it has signed an agreement to acquire game streaming service Gaikai.
July 2, 2012
Lego Batman 2 tops UK charts despite multiple new releases
Lego Batman 2 tops UK charts despite multiple new releases
Despite a barrage of new releases last week, Traveller's Tales' Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes managed to keep hold of the top spot in the UK sales charts for the second consecutive week.
July 2, 2012
THQ going ahead with reverse stock split in bid to stay listed
THQ going ahead with reverse stock split in bid to stay listed
Troubled publisher THQ has furthered its plans to stay listed on the stock exchange, as it today announced that its stockholders have approved a reverse split of its common stock.
July 2, 2012
GDC Europe adds Game of Thrones art, Ernest Adams, Bigpoint talks
GDC Europe adds Game of Thrones art, Ernest Adams, Bigpoint talks
GDC Europe 2012 organizers have revealed new sessions from a Game Of Thrones concept artist, game design veteran Ernest Adams, and Bigpoint founder Heiko Hubertz, as the show ramps up for its August debut in Cologne.
July 2, 2012
Sponsored post: GDC organizers seeking key European sales position
Sponsored post: GDC organizers seeking key European sales position
Gamasutra and GDC parent UBM Technology has has put out a call for a German-based European salesperson, tasked with handling key exhibit space and sponsorship sales for shows from GDC Europe to GDC San Francisco.
July 2, 2012
Indies have to stand out or else, says Arkedo's Guermonprez
Indies have to stand out or else, says Arkedo's Guermonprez
In a new Gamasutra interview, "I can't be small and brown," says the developer of Hell Yeah!, who believes that the only way to thrive as an indie is to be "bright yellow".
July 2, 2012
Sowing happiness in barren fields with Harvest Moon's creator
Sowing happiness in barren fields with Harvest Moon's creator
Yasuhiro Wada has quit his job as COO of Grasshopper Manufacture to get back to his roots as a creator -- and in this interview he tells Gamasutra of his hopes and plans for the "emotional" Project Happiness.
July 2, 2012
New, free tools allow any novice to make an accessible text adventure
New, free tools allow any novice to make an accessible text adventure
Interactive text games are ripe for innovation and possibly even a revival in popularity, but development tools -- not to mention parsers -- are still too difficult for most. Industry vet Jon Ingold hopes to change that.
July 2, 2012
Atomic clocks and earth rotation cause major outages
Atomic clocks and earth rotation cause major outages
Several major systems reported outages this weekend. Some, such as Pinterest, Netflix and Instagram, were caused when lightning took out Amazon’s servers in Virgina. Others were caused by the more mundane and predictable Leap Second.
July 2, 2012
Win32/Gataka: a new banking trojan readies itself
Win32/Gataka: a new banking trojan readies itself
As if there aren't already enough banking trojans to worry about, with SpyEye and Zeus, Carberp and OddJob, ESET is now warning that Gataka (aka Tatanga) – another man-in-the-browser trojan – appears ready for take-off.
July 2, 2012
Windows 8 has larger attack surface than Windows 7, researcher warns
Windows 8 has larger attack surface than Windows 7, researcher warns
The attack surface in Windows 8 is bigger than in Windows 7 because of new components and changed processes, especially with the Metro interface, warns a McAfee researcher.
July 2, 2012
Big Data can cause big headaches for infosec professionals
Big Data can cause big headaches for infosec professionals
Along with the benefits that can be gained from Big Data come attendant security risks, notes Savvis' Ed Moyle.
July 2, 2012