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GDC 2011: Opinion: Understanding Crawford - Why Chris Crawford Is Misunderstood
GDC 2011: Opinion: Understanding Crawford - Why Chris Crawford Is Misunderstood
In recognition of Chris Crawford’s GDC 2011 lecture, his first GDC speaking appearance since he claimed “games are dead” in 2006, Patrick Dugan explores why the game designer
Feb. 28, 2011
GDC 2011: Zynga's Skaggs On How The Company Achieved The Impossible
GDC 2011: Zynga's Skaggs On How The Company Achieved The Impossible
Zynga's Mark Skaggs explains how the company did the "impossible", from FarmVille to CityVille -- by starting with a "minimum viable product" and focusing on getting to market quickly, among other strategies.
Feb. 28, 2011
GDC 2011: Welcome To 'Masocore', The Evolution Of Arcade
GDC 2011: Welcome To 'Masocore', The Evolution Of Arcade
Highlighting exciting trends in the casual, social, browser-based and mobile spaces, Playmatics' Nick Fortugno defined "masocore", and discussed the exciting way forward for brutally-difficult, fast-paced games.
Feb. 28, 2011
GDC 2011: Gamasutra Offering In-Depth Coverage Of 25th GDC
GDC 2011: Gamasutra Offering In-Depth Coverage Of 25th GDC
Gamasutra editors have established a special GDC 2011 hub page for their in-depth coverage of at the historic 25th Game Developers Conference, taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this week.
Feb. 28, 2011
Gameloft Licenses UE3 For Four New Games
Gameloft Licenses UE3 For Four New Games
Gameloft, developer and publisher of mobile and digital/online titles, announced a long-term, multi-platform licensing agreement with Epic Games to incorporate Unreal Engine 3 in four of its upcoming games.
Feb. 28, 2011
GDC 2011: Scaleform Rolls Out GFx 4.0 UI Tool
GDC 2011: Scaleform Rolls Out GFx 4.0 UI Tool
Scaleform announced the release of GFx 4.0, its open and extensible Flash-based user interface/multimedia product, which introduces features like Flash10.1/AS3 support and a new mult-threaded rendering engine.
Feb. 28, 2011
Sophos warns on 'beta test' Mac OS X backdoor trojan
Sophos warns on 'beta test' Mac OS X backdoor trojan
It used to be a reflection of the maturity of the computer software marketplace that applications went through beta testing to iron out bugs. Now it seems the same process applies to malware, as Sophos is warning users to be on alert for a beta test of a new Mac OS X trojan.
Feb. 28, 2011
Obfuscated multi-browser banking trojan spotted by Spain's S21sec
Obfuscated multi-browser banking trojan spotted by Spain's S21sec
A Spanish IT security research firm has spotted a man-in-the-browser trojan that injects HTML in all of the mainstream Web browsers and uses rootkit techniques to hide its presence.
Feb. 28, 2011
UPDATE: Stolen network equipment causes Vodafone UK network outage
UPDATE: Stolen network equipment causes Vodafone UK network outage
The theft of specialist equipment has prevented thousands of users from accessing the Vodafone network.
Feb. 28, 2011
Texas man acknowledges hack of NASA computers
Texas man acknowledges hack of NASA computers
A 26-year-old man from Houston plead guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges last week in a case involving the 2008–09 breach of a Minnesota-based company. In a separate incident, however, he will apparently avoid criminal charges for accessing two NASA servers.
Feb. 28, 2011
Two Android viruses circulating in the wild
Two Android viruses circulating in the wild
Two Google Android viruses have been spotted circulating and infecting users’ smartphones in the wild. The viruses are potentially nasty because one – SW.SecurePhone – uploads data to remote servers from the users' handset, while the other – SW.Qieting – auto-forwards messages to a remote number.
Feb. 28, 2011
Interview: MoMinis Launches Platform Agnostic Mobile Development Environment
Interview: MoMinis Launches Platform Agnostic Mobile Development Environment
Launched out of beta this week, MoMinis Studio promises a free development environment that allows one set of source code to be compiled across multiple mobile platforms, and promoted on various dedicated stores.
Feb. 25, 2011