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Analysis • Sony moves away from customer electronics to become a media empire

PreMortem.Games

For years I’ve characterized the Japanese powerhouse predominantly as a consumer electronics manufacturer. Sony currently maintains its dominant position in console gaming with a 2-to-1 ratio for installed devices compared to its main rival Microsoft. Sony will always keep a foot in electronics. But that’s expected to change.

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Detective Dotson by Masala Games is a cultural joyride through modern-day India

PreMortem.Games

At first, we went looking for some assets in the marketplace to get a running start, but soon realized that there are no 3D assets representing modern India out there! At Electronic Arts he did the graphics in Will Wright’s team that created Spore. Detective Dotson is expected later this year for PC, consoles and mobile.

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Fortifying the Gaming Realm: A Deep Dive into Game Security Testing 

iXie gaming

This results in players losing key in-game assets and data to the attackers. Electronic Arts Server Cyber-Attack (2021) In 2021, hackers breached the Electronic Arts (EA) server and maliciously obtained the source code as well as the Frostbite engine’s internal tools that power several EA games.

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The Inevitable Blockchain Revolution

Deconstructor of Fun

12 years ago, while working for the Chief Creative Director at Electronic Arts, I was part of an effort to evangelize microtransactions, in-game purchases, DLC, and other forms of incremental revenue across the EA game studios. GTA5 has spanned 3 console generations thanks in large part to GTA Online. Which game would you play?

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What are the NFT gaming benefits for owners and players

Logic Simplified

Cryptocurrencies are considered fungible and unlike them, NFTs or non-fungible tokens are digital assets that can be traded or exchanged for something different. The tokens are authentic digital certificates that are stored electronically in a decentralized distributed database that is publicly verified called the blockchain.

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Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

Phaser: seems popular enough with decent TypeScript support, but I want the option of building out to a native executable without a weird Electron wrapper or something. There's a decent debugger overlay with dev console too, for those who use those things. These are some really bizarre artificial resource limits.

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