The Financial Times has reported a rumour that German browser game company Bigpoint has appointed investment bankers and is considering a sale. The report (written by Mergermarkets, a news service aimed at investment bankers, and behind a...

If anyone needed any convincing that Zynga is the undisputed champion of social games, their new game, Treasure Isle, provides all the evidence you need. It was launched at the start of April. As of yesterday, less...

Following the news that Constantin Film has, in my view stupidly, issued takedowns for the many parodies using short clips of its movie Downfall, the backlash has started. YouTube has recommended that anyone who has a video...

Sega has confirmed that it has made 73 staff redundant in its London and San Francisco offices. Headcount has been reduced by 36 in San Francisco and 37 in London, representing about 12% of Sega West’s workforce....

I posted yesterday that Ankama was making €210 million a year in revenue from Dofus. Boy, was I wrong. By a factor of 5. In my defence, I said it was 4x higher than any previous estimate...

CORRECTION: Boy, was this figure out. Further research suggests that the company’s revenue is nearer €30-40 million. You can see my revised estimate for Dofus revenues here. * * * Eurogamer reports from the Ankama Convention in...

Constantin Film are the company behind Downfall, a reasonably successful German-language movie based on the final days of Hitler. Downfall has grossed $92 million at the box office since it was released in 2004. It has also...