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It's a sad day for the games industry as another veteran closes. The big question is whether the Star Wars brand was a shining treasure or an albatross around the studio's neck Share 393 inShare4 Email Kinect Star Wars: not a great critical success for LucasArts and symbolic of its difficulties And so LucasArts is no more. On Wednesday, new owner Disney announced that it would be closing the studio, placing considerable doubt over the future of current projects Star Wars 1313 and First Assault, and resulting in the loss of up to 150 jobs. A statement read simply: After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games. As a result of this change, we've had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud of the talented teams who have been developing our new ti

It's a sad day for the games industry as another veteran closes. The big question is whether the Star Wars brand was a shining treasure or an albatross around the studio's neck Share 393 inShare4 Email Kinect Star Wars: not a great critical success for LucasArts and symbolic of its difficulties And so LucasArts is no more. On Wednesday, new owner Disney announced that it would be closing the studio, placing considerable doubt over the future of current projects Star Wars 1313 and First Assault, and resulting in the loss of up to 150 jobs. A statement read simply: After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games. As a result of this change, we've had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud of the talented teams who have been developing our new ti

Messages apparently from Anonymous activists appear on North Korean social media accounts Share 467 inShare13 Email Associated Press in Seoul guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 April 2013 12.25 BST The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, who was pictured with a pig-like snout on the country's Flickr feed. Photograph: Zuma/Rex Features Hackers have apparently broken into at least two of North Korea's government-run online sites as tensions rise on the Korean peninsula. The North's Uriminzokkiri Twitter and Flickr accounts stopped sending out content typical of that posted by the regime in Pyongyang, such as photos of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un meeting military officials. Instead, a picture posted on Thursday on the North's Flickr site shows Kim's face with a pig-like snout and a drawing of Mickey Mouse on his chest. Underneath, the text reads: "Threatening world peace with ICBMs and Nuclear weapons/Wasting money while his people starve to death.&quo

An outline of guardian.co.uk's approach to managing online profiles Share 0 inShare1 Email guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 April 2013 12.30 BST As part of our series on internet privacy, here is an explanation of our approach to managing online profiles set up by guardian.co.uk users. What information do we collect about users of guardian.co.uk? As our privacy policy explains, at Guardian News & Media (GNM) we collect different types of information about our users for four main reasons: 1. To provide personalised services unique to individual users. 2. To help us to monitor and improve the services we offer 3. To sell advertising space on the site. This helps us to keep the site free of charge. 4. With user consent, to market services to individual users. We collect information on our users through: - registration and use of the website; - cookies (small files that allow website to remember user preferences); - where you choose to disclose data in postings; - when you enter

Right to be forgotten' laws, giving users – rather than services such as Facebook – control of personal data will save billions of euros and thickets of red tape. So why is Britain resisting? Share 176 inShare54 Email Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 April 2013 12.30 BST Jump to comments (88) Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European commission, said the right to be forgotten would not be absolute. Photograph: Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images Britain is attempting to opt out of a European initiative enabling anyone to delete their personal details from online service providers – a power known as the "right to be forgotten". The clash between Brussels and the Ministry of Justice has erupted in the final stages of negotiations over the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, which aims to rebalance the relationship between the individual and the internet. The debate reflects growing tensions between freedom of expr

Deleting false or embarrassing profiles, pictures and reports from websites can prove impossible as these personal stories show Share 37 inShare1 Email Giles Tremlett in Madrid and Owen Bowcott guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 April 2013 12.30 BST Marta Bobo as a teenager. The former gymnast was incorrectly described as anorexic in a 1984 article. In 1984 Marta Bobo was a promising young Spanish gymnast, about to take part in her first Olympics in Los Angeles. She would like to be remembered for her awards and national title wins as well as the flexibility, grace, co-ordination and strength she showed in international competitions. But enter her name in Google's search engine and you soon see a 1984 headline from El País newspaper: "Marta Bobo has anorexia". "I have never had anorexia, nor has a doctor ever given that diagnosis. This was a story put out by people at the federation who did not want me to go to the Olympic Games because they had their own candi

Right to be forgotten advocates argue details online can be out-of-date, misleading and even downright wrong Share 45 inShare6 Email Giles Tremlett in Madrid, Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and Kate Connolly in Berlin The Guardian, Thursday 4 April 2013 12.41 BST Campaigners want the right to be able to delete personal data held online. Photograph: Influx Productions/Getty Images The internet has a long memory. It can remember things long after everyone else has forgotten them. In some cases, this can lead to a pleasant surprise: long-lost pictures, an old witticism, a fragment of a distant conversation. But growing numbers of people are finding that the internet's long memory can be misleading, malicious or plain wrong. And they are taking the fight to the big repositories of personal data – principally, but not only, Google and Facebook. Take Mario Costeja. Google his name and one of the first things you find is that he had financial problems in the 1990s and was for