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Article | 21/05/2013 Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in popular game engines
Security researchers found serious vulnerabilities in the engines of several popular first-person shooter video games that could allow attackers to co...
Article | 6/05/2013 Kinect sensor modified for wheelchair gaming
By modifying a Microsoft Kinect sensor, a research project at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference demonstrated how gamers in a wheelchair ...
Article | 1/05/2013 Electricity zaps gamers' muscles for force feedback
A research project on show at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris uses a small electrical current to give the sensation of force feedba...
Article | 30/04/2013 Microsoft turns room into video game with IllumiRoom project
The IllumiRoom project from Microsoft Research turns a living room into a video game with projected images that extend and complement the main televis...
Article | 30/04/2013 Gaming prototypes on display at computer interaction conference
Gaming research and prototypes have created a lot of buzz at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris this week.
Article | 4/04/2013 Disney zaps in-house game development at LucasArts
Walt Disney has shut down in-house development at LucasArts, the gaming arm of Lucasfilm, less than a year after buying its parent company.
Article | 26/03/2013 Facebook woos serious gamers
If 2012 was the year of arcade, casino and hidden object games on Facebook, such as "Diamond Dash," "Bubble Witch Saga" and "Bubble Safari," the socia...
Article | 26/03/2013 AI programmers struggle to makes games 'imitate life'
Artificial intelligence, a field of programming employed by video game developers to make characters smarter and improve their decisions, still has a ...
Article | 22/03/2013 Sony lowers bar for PlayStation 4 development with Unity partnership
Sony has formed a partnership with software firm Unity to make it easier for developers to create and port titles for PlayStation consoles, including ...
Article | 22/03/2013 Zynga to let users play games without Facebook
Zynga's network of users has historically been tightly linked to Facebook's social graph, but now the gaming giant is looking to branch out.
Article | 5/02/2013 Former Atari CEO bids to save his old gaming company from bankruptcy
Former Atari Interactive CEO Frédéric Chesnais has decided to take a 25.23% stake in the company in a bid to save it from bankruptcy, Atari announced ...
Article | 9/01/2013 'Worst CEO' list calls out Zynga's Pincus, Zuckerberg's 'hoodie mentality'
Zynga's Mark Pincus made the annual "Worst CEOs" list compiled by Dartmouth College professor Sydney Finkelstein, which also nearly included Mark Zuck...
Article | 21/12/2012 NRA takes aim at violent video games, culture
The U.S. National Rifle Association broke a week-long silence on Friday to provide its first comments after a mass killing at a Connecticut school and...
Article | 20/12/2012 Video games to come under scrutiny in US gun violence review
Violence in video games and other aspects of pop culture in the U.S. will be among the areas examined as part of an investigation aimed at reducing gu...
Article | 16/11/2012 Nintendo Wii U goes on sale this weekend
Nintendo's new game console the Wii U will go on sale in the U.S. Sunday as the company attempts to regain ground from Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's...