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This Week In Console Digital Download: From Trenched To Donkey Kong '94
This Week In Console Digital Download: From Trenched To Donkey Kong '94
This week, Gamasutra rounds up the titles released for the major console and portable digital delivery services including Game Boy classic Donkey Kong '94 and Doublefine's Trenched.
June 22, 2011
Crytek's Expensive 'Gift' To Its High-End Players
Crytek's Expensive 'Gift' To Its High-End Players
Crytek's is set to release a substantial patch to graphically improve Crysis 2, telling Gamasutra that its strategy to make the sequel more accessible than its predecessor may have "backfired."
June 22, 2011
Casey's Contraptions Dev: Launch On All iOS Devices Simultaneously
Casey's Contraptions Dev: Launch On All iOS Devices Simultaneously
Noel Llopis, one of the developers behind Snappy Touch's successful iPad game Casey's Contraptions, said in a
June 22, 2011
Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Of Trion Worlds' Rift
Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Of Trion Worlds' Rift
Gamasutra sister publication Game Developer magazine features a postmortem of Trion Worlds' fantasy MMO Rift, written by CCO Scott Hartsman -- highlights of what went right, wrong within.
June 22, 2011
Korea's GCF: Scientific Standards For Game Addiction Needed
Korea's GCF: Scientific Standards For Game Addiction Needed
South Korea's Game Culture Foundation, which opened a local game addiction clinic earlier this month, said there needs to be scientific standards for game addiction.
June 22, 2011
Mobile Veteran Ulf Waschbusch Joins Social Gaming Company MindJolt
Mobile Veteran Ulf Waschbusch Joins Social Gaming Company MindJolt
Google and MySpace veteran Ulf Waschbusch has joined MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe at his social gaming company MindJolt, where he will head the company's internal mobile game development.
June 22, 2011
Kaspersky uses cloud intelligence for automated PDF threat analysis
Kaspersky uses cloud intelligence for automated PDF threat analysis
Kaspersky Lab has announced that a new feature of its security software - File Advisor - will use cloud threat intelligence to verify the safety of Adobe PDF files.
June 22, 2011
Germany opens cyber defense center in response to critical infrastructure attacks
Germany opens cyber defense center in response to critical infrastructure attacks
Germany has launched a national cyber defense center in Bonn aimed mainly at protecting critical national infrastructure from cyber attacks.
June 22, 2011
Citigroup took too long to notify customers, says senator
Citigroup took too long to notify customers, says senator
Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) took Citigroup to task for not informing its credit card holders about the data breach affecting 360,000 North American customers, during a Tuesday hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.
June 22, 2011
So who are these LulzSec characters anyway?
So who are these LulzSec characters anyway?
As the first arrest allegedly associated with the LulzSec hacktivist group has taken place, Rob Rachwald, director of security with Imperva, has detailed who the group's leaders are.
June 22, 2011
Iwata: Wii U Planning Started Immediately After Wii Release
Iwata: Wii U Planning Started Immediately After Wii Release
In an interview with Gamasutra, Nintendo's Satoru Iwata says his company began thinking about the Wii U right after the Wii's launch, and outlines the firm's home console and software pricing strategies.
June 21, 2011
Best of iOS News: From Flick Golf Extreme to Hanging With Friends
Best of iOS News: From Flick Golf Extreme to Hanging With Friends
Gamasutra rounds up the latest news in the world of App Store gaming, featuring standout releases like Flick Golf Extreme, Hanging With Friends, and Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp.
June 21, 2011