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Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 iOS Games
Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 iOS Games
Rounding up the year's top iPhone and iPad titles, sister site FingerGaming's editor Danny Cowan highlights the year's best games -- spanning fiendish puzzlers through game company simulations and beyond.
Dec. 29, 2010
Feature: How Self-Interest Supports CityVille's Socialization
Feature: How Self-Interest Supports CityVille's Socialization
After looking into the addictive gameplay design for Zynga's latest hit CityVille yesterday, design veteran Tadhg Kelly concludes his examination with
Dec. 29, 2010
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Named 2010's Most Pirated PC Game
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Named 2010's Most Pirated PC Game
Data from download tracker TorrentFreak.com shows the PC version of Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops was the most pirated game of 2010, with over 4.2 million confirmed BitTorrent downloads through December 26.
Dec. 29, 2010
New Super Mario Bros. Becomes DS' First Six-Million-Seller In Japan
New Super Mario Bros. Becomes DS' First Six-Million-Seller In Japan
Nearly five years after its first release, 2D platformer New Super Mario Bros. has become the first Nintendo DS game to sell over six million copies in Japan, with sales of over 24 million worldwide.
Dec. 29, 2010
2011 Independent Games Festival Announces Excellence in Design Jury
2011 Independent Games Festival Announces Excellence in Design Jury
Organizers of the 2011 Independent Games Festival have debuted the Excellence in Design jury ahead of Monday's finalist announcement, including the creators of Plants Vs. Zombies, Journey and Monaco.
Dec. 29, 2010
Mozilla admits to possible leak of user information
Mozilla admits to possible leak of user information
Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, admitted that it accidentally posted sensitive information about the users of its addons.mozilla.org site to a public web server.
Dec. 29, 2010
Husband faces five years in jail for hacking wife’s email account
Husband faces five years in jail for hacking wife’s email account
Computer technician Leon Walker faces five years in jail for hacking into his wife’s email account to confirm suspicions that she was having an affair with her ex-husband.
Dec. 29, 2010
Phoenix exploit hacker kit methodology explained
Phoenix exploit hacker kit methodology explained
Websense has posted a detailed analysis of the Phoenix Exploit kit, which is used by hackers to seed and infect users' PCs across the internet, and then monitor the results for data harvesting.
Dec. 29, 2010
Row breaks out over alleged Chip and PIN security flaw censorship
Row breaks out over alleged Chip and PIN security flaw censorship
A row that has been brewing between the payment card 'establishment' and researchers with Cambridge University, who have previously claimed that the Chip & PIN security system seen in UK bank payment cards is flawed, has spilled out into the open.
Dec. 29, 2010
Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 Facebook Social Games
Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 Facebook Social Games
In this round-up of the year's top Facebook-hosted titles, sister site Worlds in Motion's editor Eric Caoili examines the top social games that've broken away to focus on depth and engaging gameplay.
Dec. 28, 2010
Feature: How Zynga's CityVille Has Compelled 70 Million Players
Feature: How Zynga's CityVille Has Compelled 70 Million Players
In a new Gamasutra feature, design veteran Tadhg Kelly examines some of the factors that have attracted over 70 million people to CityVille, Zynga's latest over
Dec. 28, 2010
Activision: Over 20 Million Black Ops Players Log More Than 600 Million Hours
Activision: Over 20 Million Black Ops Players Log More Than 600 Million Hours
Call of Duty: Black Ops players apparently numbering more than 20 million have logged more than 600 million man-hours with the game in the 45 days since its November 9 release, Activision has revealed.
Dec. 28, 2010