Activision has made a swathe of cuts across its development studios, according to the LA Times: Luxoflux, acquired by Activision in 2002, is being shut down. The studio, which employs about 56 people in Santa Monica, worked...

Google Buzz is Google’s latest consumer misfire. In its attempt to out-Facebook Facebook and out-Twitter Twitter, the company decided that every user of Gmail really wanted to have every frequent email correspondent treated as a social networking...

GamesIndustry.biz reports that GAME Group is consolidating its GameStation business with the potential loss of 80 jobs. The company has been moving to combine the York-based operations of GameStation with the Basingstoke head office of GAME. According...

Surprised to see Average Selling Price of an XBLA game up by 10% last year to $9.12 http://bit.ly/aEN1Aq # Just posted: Last 7 hours to bring a colleague to my self-publishing Masterclass http://tinyurl.com/yfwhwx8 # Just posted: Ngmoco:...

GamesIndustry.biz reports on a FADE report estimating XBLA sales in 2009. Here’s the top 10. XBLA Estimated Top Titles by Revenue, 2009 (Average Price) Battlefield 1943 (EA Dice) – $12.5 million ($15.00) Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) –...

Just a brief reminder that the earlybird booking for bringing a colleague at half price to my self-publishing masterclass on 25th February in London. You can find out more at the GamesDev Masterclass website Hope to see...

Inside Social Games ran a big interview with Neil Young, CEO of ngMoco, last week. Two things leaped out at me. If we can’t make a game free to play, we’re going to kill it Young comes...