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Gametech Business Conference Coming To Sydney
Gametech Business Conference Coming To Sydney
Connect Events announced its inaugural Gametech convention, a two-day business conference covering the video games and interactive entertainment industry, coming to Sydney's Luna Park on June 21st and 22nd.
April 5, 2011
Tretton Discusses Platform Pricing, PS3 Hitting Its Stride
Tretton Discusses Platform Pricing, PS3 Hitting Its Stride
SCEA president and CEO Jack Tretton said in a new interview that he doesn't think that "price makes or kills a platform," and that Sony is "just hitting [its] stride" with its PlayStation 3 console.
April 5, 2011
GDC Vault Adds Free 'GDC 25' Video Lectures From Lantz, Cleveland
GDC Vault Adds Free 'GDC 25' Video Lectures From Lantz, Cleveland
The GDC Vault service has debuted more free video talks from GDC 2011, including Frank Lantz evocatively exploring poker and Go, and Natural Selection 2's Charlie Cleveland on 'The 1-Hour Video Game MBA'.
April 5, 2011
Analysis: How To Hack The World: The Strange History Of Hacker International
Analysis: How To Hack The World: The Strange History Of Hacker International
Gamasutra contributor Kevin Gifford documents the history of 'Japanese bad boy publisher' Hacker International, from the company's legal brush with Nintendo to the production of the Disk Hacker.
April 5, 2011
Feature: Dead Rising 2's Intelligent Tool Design Secrets
Feature: Dead Rising 2's Intelligent Tool Design Secrets
In Gamasutra's latest feature, Capcom Game Studio Vancouver technical director Tom Niwinski reveals the secrets of how the studio created tools that made open worl
April 5, 2011
Codeplay Launches Offload 2 Compiler
Codeplay Launches Offload 2 Compiler
Edinburgh-based technology company Codeplay announced the launch of Offload 2, a new version of its game acceleration and optimization toolkit for PlayStation 3 developers.
April 5, 2011
Q1 2011 dominated by smartphone malware says Panda Security
Q1 2011 dominated by smartphone malware says Panda Security
The latest quarterly malware report from Panda Security claims to show that smartphone malware dominated the security landscape, as witnessed by the rash of Google Android infections.
April 5, 2011
Xbox Live policy director's account hacked
Xbox Live policy director's account hacked
An upset Xbox gamer has publicly hacked the Xbox Live policy and enforcement director's online account, posting a YouTube video and claiming that the use of foreign customer support centres means that almost anyone's Xbox account can be hacked.
April 5, 2011
Cheap Zeus source code for sale
Cheap Zeus source code for sale
Just two months after the Zeus source code was reportedly offered for exclusive sale for $100,000, it seems that the code is now being offered at bargain basement prices through multiple outlets.
April 5, 2011
Epsilon hack: 50 companies hit by data breach
Epsilon hack: 50 companies hit by data breach
With the dust now settling on the Epsilon marketing database breach, it seems that around 50 companies have been directly affected by the hack, raising fears that so-called spear phishing attacks may be the result.
April 5, 2011
Lizamoon hits thousands of websites, but claims few victims
Lizamoon hits thousands of websites, but claims few victims
The Lizamoon mass SQL injection attack in which rogue code was injected into thousands of legitimate sites to lure users to malicious sites has claimed few victims.
April 5, 2011
Pandora supplies documents for federal probe into mobile app data sharing
Pandora supplies documents for federal probe into mobile app data sharing
Internet radio company Pandora Media has been asked for documents related to a federal grand jury probe into information sharing by smartphone applications that run on Apple and Android mobile platforms.
April 5, 2011