Slant Six Games, the Vancouver, BC studio developing the upcoming Resident Evil: Raccoon City, has licensed Donya's level of detail (LOD) solution Simplygon to increase graphical performance.

After a steep uphill battle against Apple's dominant iPod line and iOS devices, Microsoft officially confirmed that it will "no longer be producing Zune players," instead focusing game, music and video strategy on Windows Phone.

Moscow-headquartered game publisher and developer Nival on Tuesday announced the founding of a new Kiev, Ukraine based studio that will focus on the burgeoning mobile gaming market.

GDC Online has debuted new talks within the show's Game Narrative Summit, featuring the 10 commandments of game writing, tips on how to write co-op campaigns, and much more.

In this interview, VVVVVV creator and Irish indie developer Terry Cavanagh talks with Gamasutra about his unique "exhibition game" At A Distance, a two-player cooperative experience that's all about communication.

General Motors’ OnStar navigation and emergency services provider has reversed itself and decided not to continue to collect data from vehicles of former OnStar subscribers.

According to security researcher Brian Krebs, phishers and cybercriminals have been casting an unusually wide net of late, sending out huge volumes of fraudulent email designed to spread password-stealing banking trojans. And, he reports, judging from the number of victims that have reportedly costly cyberheists in the past two weeks, many small to medium sized organizations have been taking the bait.

The East Surrey Hospital has admitted it lost the details of around 800 patients on unencrypted memory stick in September of last year. The revelation was made in the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust's annual report.

Today IBM made two announcements regarding its security business: the planned purchase of Q1 Labs and its intent to establish the IBM Security Systems division.

Academic tenure discourages educational investment in cybersecurity innovation, Paul Barford, a computer sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as the chief scientist at cloud security specialist Qualys, told the Security Innovation Network (SINET) summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday.

Another primarily SIEM firm is about to fall off the radar, as McAfee announced plans to purchase security information and event management (SIEM) provider NitroSecurity.