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E3: Insomniac's Price Talks Going Multiplatform With Overstrike
E3: Insomniac's Price Talks Going Multiplatform With Overstrike
CEO Ted Price talks Overstrike, Insomniac's newest foray into multiplatform development, and emphasizes that there is still "a lot of trust" in its relationship with Sony.
June 9, 2011
Feature: Taking Advantage Of GPS Location In Smartphone Games
Feature: Taking Advantage Of GPS Location In Smartphone Games
In Gamasutra's latest feature, Will Luton, creative director of iOS game studio Mobile Pie, describes how location-aware technology helps bring players back for microtransaction monetization opportunities.
June 9, 2011
E3: F2P Shooter Dev Speaks Out Against Call Of Duty Elite Service
E3: F2P Shooter Dev Speaks Out Against Call Of Duty Elite Service
Zombie Studios’ Jared Gerritzen, developer on the free to play Blacklight: Retribution, spoke out against Activision’s decision to charge a monthly fee for the services in the Call of Duty Elite program.
June 9, 2011
Biometrics system failure in Malaysia causes chaos
Biometrics system failure in Malaysia causes chaos
The high profile failure of a state-of-the-art biometrics system at a major international travel hub in Malaysia last weekend has sent shockwaves throughout the global biometrics industry.
June 9, 2011
Privacy groups voice concerns over Facebook face-recognition feature
Privacy groups voice concerns over Facebook face-recognition feature
European Union data protection regulators have called for an investigation into a Facebook feature using face-recognition software to help tag people in images on the social media website.
June 9, 2011
Citigroup admits to data breach affecting 210,000 credit card customers
Citigroup admits to data breach affecting 210,000 credit card customers
Roughly 1% of Citigroup’s 21 million North American customers’ credit card accounts were hacked, the bank has admitted.
June 9, 2011
Google doles out $10,000 in bounties for fixes in latest Chrome browser
Google doles out $10,000 in bounties for fixes in latest Chrome browser
Google has awarded researchers close to $10,000 for identifying security flaws in its Chrome web browser; version 12 fixes 15 vulnerabilities in total.
June 9, 2011
E3: David Perry Promises Gaikai On TVs In 2012
E3: David Perry Promises Gaikai On TVs In 2012
David Perry, co-founder of cloud gaming technology company Gaikai told Gamasutra at E3 on Wednesday that Gaikai's service will be heading to family room televisions next year.
June 8, 2011
E3: id's Carmack, Willits Happy To Be Done With Engine Licensing
E3: id's Carmack, Willits Happy To Be Done With Engine Licensing
id Software co-founder and lead programmer John Carmack and creative director Tim Willits told Gamasutra that they're relieved that the studio chose not to license Rage's id Tech 5 engine.
June 8, 2011
E3: Itagaki - Japanese Publishers 'Sort Of Pretend They Know What They're Doing'
E3: Itagaki - Japanese Publishers 'Sort Of Pretend They Know What They're Doing'
Outspoken developer Tomonobu Itagaki, currently developing Devil's Third for THQ, tells Gamasutra that while Japanese publisher management
June 8, 2011
OnLive's Game Streaming Coming To iPad, Android Tablets This Fall
OnLive's Game Streaming Coming To iPad, Android Tablets This Fall
Cloud-based video game streaming service OnLive unveiled support and controller features for tablets with a new iPad/Android app that will release in the U.S. and Europe this fall.
June 8, 2011
Study: Most Americans Want Gamifications At Work
Study: Most Americans Want Gamifications At Work
55 percent of Americans are interested in working for a company that uses gamification to increase productivity, according to a new survey by consulting firm Saatchi & Saatchi S.
June 8, 2011