Zynga announced that it has acquired the development team at Boston-based casual and mobile game studio Floodgate Entertainment, which it will absorb into its Zynga Boston office.

Season Xu, COO of Happy Farm developer Five Minutes, tells Gamasutra there is psychological manipulation that goes into social game development, but "you have t

The editors of Game Developer magazine, are pleased to reveal that the publication is a finalist thrice over in the upcoming 2011 Maggie awards, and is also a silver winner in the Eddie Awards.

Newswires are reporting that the volume of spam – leading to infected and scamware websites – has gone through the roof this week, but M86 Security says that it has seen a spam campaign that imitates a Twitter notification.

Arbor Networks claims to have discovered one of the first botnets with its command-and-control (C&C) servers located in the US. Dr Jose Nazario, the firm's senior security researcher, says that the Skunx botnet is unusual in not being active in the wild.

Customers of RSA’s SecurID two-factor authentication product, which was the target of a recent security breach, are concerned that the seed record database might have been compromised, said Andrew Kemshall, co-founder of SecurEnvoy and former RSA Europe executive.

The MyTob virus, which appeared in 2005 and was the first worm to combine features of a botnet and a mass-mailer, is the most significant virus to emerge over the last 40 years, according to Guillaume Lovet, senior manager of Fortinet’s Threat Response Team.

Valve's Steam Guard security features have now been activated on the Steam client, allowing users to link their account to a specific PC and stop any unauthorized access from other computers.