In a Gamasutra-attended conference call, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said that while it was too early for exact numbers, Rockstar's L.A. Noire release was a win all around.

It appears that, despite President Obama recently going on national TV in the US to tell everyone that Osama bin Laden is dead, Facebook users are being lured to a credential-stealing set of web pages by a tweet referencing a 'CNN report' that the head of al Qaeda is still alive.

Reports are coming in that the BlackHole exploit kit, a pivotal piece of malware in the same league as Zeus, has joined the infamous malware in being offered for free on darkware forums.

Hell hath no fury like an upset cracker, it seems, as the tidal wave of apparent supporters of George Hotz appear to be targeting Sony in an unprecedented hackathon.

The last 12 months have seen the volume of 64-bit Win7-equipped machines being sold rising steadily and it seems that cybercriminals have woken up to the trend, developing 64-bit malware.

Attacks of the W32.Qakbot worm, which was responsible for a data breach at a Massachusetts labor agency, are on the rise after the author

At last week's Gamasutra-attended Canadian Games Conference, Big Sandwich design director Tyler Sigman explained the long process of bringing Hoard to PSN, and how designers can find room to iterate in some unexpected places.

Gamasutra's latest custom compiled worldwide release list explores a week that brings DiRT 3 and Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale stateside, while Japan gets Akai Katana Shin, Troy Musou and Pandora no Tou.