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Opinion: Guild Wars 2 Fights The Subscription Racket
Opinion: Guild Wars 2 Fights The Subscription Racket
Gamasutra contributor Phill Cameron examines Guild Wars 2's subscription-free model, as an ArenaNet lead content designer flatly asks, "If you're paying a monthly fee for a game, what are you getting for your money?"
Sept. 29, 2011
Moshi Monsters Creator Mind Candy Expands To U.S. For Online Video Platform
Moshi Monsters Creator Mind Candy Expands To U.S. For Online Video Platform
Moshi Monsters creator Mind Candy is expanding from its London headquarters to a new Los Angeles office which will focus on producing video content for the game's young playerbase.
Sept. 29, 2011
Adventures of Shuggy's Creator On The Importance of Pre-Release Publicity
Adventures of Shuggy's Creator On The Importance of Pre-Release Publicity
The Adventures of Shuggy for Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade wasn't a big hit for several reasons, though a lack of promotion seems to have been its biggest, says creator David Johnston.
Sept. 29, 2011
Report: Xbox 360 To Add Comcast, Verizon Live TV
Report: Xbox 360 To Add Comcast, Verizon Live TV
Following a string of rumors, reports have come in that Microsoft will offer pay TV from both Comcast and Verizon through Xbox Live, with an announcement coming as soon as next week.
Sept. 29, 2011
Nielsen: MW3, GoW 3 Top Holiday Wish Lists
Nielsen: MW3, GoW 3 Top Holiday Wish Lists
Ahead of the Holiday shopping season, tracking firm Nielsen has named its "Top 20 Games to Watch," saying that Modern Warfare 3 leads desirability at 27 percent, followed by Gears Of War 3.
Sept. 29, 2011
Elcomsoft enhances password recovery software to crack encrypted BlackBerry media cards
Elcomsoft enhances password recovery software to crack encrypted BlackBerry media cards
Russian password recovery specialist has enhanced its Phone Password Breaker software to crack encrypted media cards for the BlackBerry smartphone. The password recovery specialist claims the software's password recovery rate on the BlackBerry is in the order of millions passwords per second.
Sept. 29, 2011
ISF issues major update on Standard of Good Practice for IT security professionals
ISF issues major update on Standard of Good Practice for IT security professionals
The Information Security Forum (ISF) has published a major update on its Standard of Good Practice for IT security professionals, which is billed as the industry’s most business-focused, all-in-one guide to information security assurance.
Sept. 29, 2011
Red Lambda develops auto-mining security intelligence software
Red Lambda develops auto-mining security intelligence software
Red Lambda has taken the wraps off an automatic data mining application that analyzes data on the organization's IT resources and archives – as well as on the internet – and presents the information in a drill-down dashboard format to the user.
Sept. 29, 2011
Is personnel turmoil behind DHS cybersecurity reorg?
Is personnel turmoil behind DHS cybersecurity reorg?
High-level turnover at the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) cybersecurity office may be a factor in the reorganization of the National Protection and Programs Directorate, which oversees the office.
Sept. 29, 2011
Opinion: Finessing The App Stores
Opinion: Finessing The App Stores
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Betable's David Tyler York offers advice on how to get your application or game noticed on the Android Market and other crowded mobile app stores.
Sept. 28, 2011
Top-Grossing iOS Games: Smurfs' Village, Zynga Poker Head App Store Earnings
Top-Grossing iOS Games: Smurfs' Village, Zynga Poker Head App Store Earnings
Apple's latest U.S. App Store game charts by revenue see Where's My Water? and Zynga Poker earning top iPhone sales, while Smurfs' Village and DragonVale remain big sellers on the iPad.
Sept. 28, 2011
Critical Reception: The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Critical Reception: The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
This week's edition of Critical Reception examines online reaction to The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection, which reviewers describe as "inventive and emotionally involving adventures."
Sept. 28, 2011