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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 | 15/05/2013 At Google I/O, attendees compete to save the world, virtually
Google I/O has not officially started, but the developers' show is already seeing some action. Two warring factions, the Resistance and the Enlightenm...
Article | 27/03/2013 Game developers employ AI for more adaptive play
Instead of charging directly at the player in the craggy martian landscape, as they might do normally, the aliens zigzag to take cover behind boulders...
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 | 15/03/2013 Researchers find vulnerability in EA's Origin platform
Users of Origin, the game distribution platform of Electronic Arts (EA), are vulnerable to remote code execution attacks through origin:// URLs, accor...
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 | 15/11/2012 US jury indicts Dutch man for disabling multiplayer online game
A grand jury in New Hampshire has indicted a Dutch man for allegedly conspiring to hack into and disable servers belonging to Rampid Interactive, a co...
Article | 14/11/2012 Japan's Gree to expand game platform to HTML5, avoid app store fees
Japan's Gree, which runs a large mobile gaming platform, said Wednesday it will expand to include games that run entirely inside web browsers, a move ...
Article | 19/12/2011 Japanese game maker Square Enix to reopen hacked site, says no private data lost
Japanese game developer Square Enix said Monday that no private data was stolen when a server for a fan site was hacked last week, and it plans to reo...
Article | 6/12/2011 Japan's Gree aims to take on Facebook, Zynga with social gaming platform
Japanese mobile game provider Gree said Tuesday it would launch a new gaming platform next year as it looks to take on heavyweights like Facebook and ...
Article | 21/11/2011 Japan mobile game giant Gree sues rival DeNA for blocking developers
Japanese mobile game platform operator Gree said Monday it has sued rival DeNA for obstructing game developers that try to launch games on both of the...
Article | 18/11/2011 Sega acquires US online game developer Three Rings
Sega said Friday it has acquired U.S. online game developer Three Rings Design, in an effort to grow outside its traditional video game business overs...
Article | 22/10/2011 Nintendo to add 3D movie capture to 3DS handheld
Nintendo said Friday that a software update for its 3DS handheld due in late November in Japan will add the ability to shoot movies in 3D.
Article | 13/10/2011 SLIDESHOW: Inside Zynga's crazy new headquarters
Zynga invited the media to its new headquarters in San Francisco this week to show off its latest games. It's at the corner of 8th and Townsend in a f...
Article | 12/10/2011 Zynga gets more social, more violent
Zynga is making its games more social, but also more edgy, so players will be able to meet people more easily, then hack them to death with a chainsaw...

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