Identity protection provider Aura raises $200M at a $2.5B valuation

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Burlington, Massachusetts-based identity protection company Aura today announced it raised $200 million at a $2.5 billion post-money valuation, bringing its total sum raised to $650 million. CEO Hari Ravichandran said that the funds will be put toward […]

Netacea: Stolen identity sales in criminal marketplace up 250% since 2019

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The number of stolen digital identities available on the Genesis Market has risen from 100,000 in April 2019 to over 350,000 in March 2021, with over 18,000 added each month, Netacea, the bot detection and mitigation specialist, said in new research […]

Fight For Your Identity In Cyberpunk Action Shooter Foreclosed

The 38th Golden Joystick Awards (2020) happened recently, showcasing a plethora of quality video games, video gamers, and video game culture across a variety of categories. One of those video games that caught many people’s attention is Foreclosed, a cyberpunk graphic novel slash action shooted on the way from indie dev Antab Studio and publisher […]

Queer identity in Watch Dogs: Legion should be more than flavor text

It’s no secret that, far from accurately reflecting the diversity of the societies we live in, a great deal of media casts an image of our cities and public spaces that skews heavily white, straight, and male. So when Watch Dogs: Legion asked me to choose my first operative from one of 15 procedurally generated […]