In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Vigil Games' senior designer Mike Birkhead examines what makes combat in video games fun, analyzing titles like God of War, World of Warcraft, and

In Gamasutra's latest feature interview, Jon Mak and Shaw-Han Liem talk about how they "spend a lot of time trying to find that overlap" between gameplay a

Last week's changes to Sony's online services user agreements that blocked class action lawsuits was spurred by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, according to online reports.

GameStop might see cloud gaming service OnLive as a "competitor," but British equivalent Game today announced it has partnered with the company to sell its hardware and accessories at retail.

A press conference held last week by Nintendo to announce a crop of new 3DS titles including Capcom's Monster Hunter 4 provided a big boost for sales of the slow-going console in Japan.

Barracuda Networks has launched its No Limits road show in Europe, allowing clients to meet the security firm's CEO Dean Drako, chief research officer Dr. Paul Judge and the rest of the senior management. The tour will also, says the company, provide end users with best practice information and advice on protecting themselves form the latest threats on the internet, as well as resellers with further information.

A Symantec security expert has spotted a variant of the Morto worm that seems to parse requests through a Chinese online gaming server. The good news – from a UK perspective – is that the game it parses commands through are aimed at the Chinese community in the Far East.

On the opening day of the first (ISC)² Congress, collocated with ASIS 2011 in Orlando, Florida, the information security professional body announced the formation of the (ISC)² chapter programme.

On the first day of the (ISC)² Congress 2011, (ISC)² announced that it has formed the (ISC)² Foundation - a new charitable organisation dedicated to delivering education and awareness programmes to communities around the globe to make the cyber world a safer place for everyone.

Blizzard Entertainment on Tuesday announced that closed beta testing for its highly-anticipated Diablo III action RPG has begun, as the title enters the "final stages of development."

Social gaming giant Zynga on Tuesday confirmed its next big title, Mafia Wars 2, the follow-up to one of the company's first breakout hits, with the sequel introducing a "vast 3-D world."