Batman Arkham City interview: superhero development

Nick Cowen talks to Dax Ginn, marketing game manager at Rocksteady Games, about the Dark Knight's return

Microsoft sued for tracking mobile users’ location without permission

Lawsuit claims that tech giant collects data about customers' whereabouts even they have opted out of location tracking. By Josh Halliday

Driver San Francisco – review

Steve Boxer: When the oil runs out and the joy of motoring fades from memory, things like Driver San Francisco will become revered artefacts

Kids today need a licence to tinker

Forget the dysfunctional approach of the national curriculum, we need to open young minds to the creative possibilities of computing, writes John Naughton

Gamescom 2011: Kinectimals on your phone – with QR code magic

Keith Stuart: David Braben shows us a clever smartphone version of Frontier's motion-tracking pet sim

Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me…

The increasingly fierce battle for intellectual property rights is causing many large corporations to make questionable decisions, says John Naughton

Gamescom 2011: Microsoft Kinect and dashboard goodies

Keith Stuart:From Kinect darts and rampaging rancors to the forthcoming Xbox interface revolution, we rifle through Microsoft's Gamescom booty

Why Google had to have Motorola Mobility

Dan Gillmor: The acquisition has provoked comment about defensive buying of patents, but Google surely has more ambition than that

From Dust – review

Nick Cowen: In a game where you play God, benevolence is everything – wrathful Old Testament types need not apply

Apple’s rise continues but few others are getting a bite

Steve Jobs and co have created an economy in which only Apple gets really rich, writes John Naughton

Douglas Edwards: I was Google employee No 59

In 1999, Douglas Edwards became the brand manager of an internet startup called Google. Now, he tells Tim Adams about the hidden cost of the online gold rush

Microsoft’s Ashley Highfield appointed CEO of Johnston Press

The former Microsoft and BBC digital executive is to succeed John Fry as chief executive of regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press. By Mark Sweney