Court documents suggest $30 million is a fair price for Midway. More likely, it’s a ceiling for the value of Mortal Kombat, and is unlikely to be achieved. Last month, creditors kicked up a stink about the...

The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood is billed as the story of “the real magic behind movie making: how the studios make their money”. It mostly succeeds, but if fails by being in thrall to...

I spent too long over Easter playing with php and mysql, but the Job Loss Tracker is now fully interactive. Want to know how many American development jobs were lost in 2008? How about British publishers in...

Doing some research over the weekend, I came across this argument from 2007: “There are publicly-expressed tensions between Epic and Microsoft over the handling of downloadable content for Gears Of War (Microsoft Games Studios wanted to charge...

Kotaku is running a story about GameStop letting staff play games and then selling them as new. I’m struggling to get worked up about this. But I loved GameStop’s corporate speak. Kotaku quotes the company policy regarding...

I’m fed up. I’m fed up with reports on ‘gamer’ demographics being repackaged to suggest that they are, on the whole, anything other than the traditional young males (13 – 30) we used to assume. My ire’s...

The BBC reports today that Richard Thornhill bought a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for his 12 year old son on the Xbox 360, and was horrified to find four Ecstasy pills tucked away in the...