Diner Dash creator Gamelab has made ten of its 25 staff redundant. The company is now focused exclusively on Gamestar Mechanic, a “multiplayer online game for kids that lets them create games”. Added to the Job Loss...

Kongregate Labs is Kongregate’s attempt to show its users how to make games themeselves. It’s a sensible strategy – user-generated games are hard to make compared to Wiki entries or home videos, and yet Kongregate’s lifeblood is...

YouTube announces that it will put a link besides video game trailers that will take users to Amazon where they can buy the game. Well, duh!

Google today announced the launch of Adsense for Games, claiming that this will fuel the growth of the online games sector. Given that video advertising is the sector that is still holding up in these trouble times,...

Latest research from the Internet Advertising Bureau shows that online advertising grew 21% in the first half of 2008. Total online adspend in H1 2008 was £1,682.5 million, up from £1.3 billion in H1 2007.  The total ad...

Last month marked the creation of a global subscription service for games when Turner injected its US-based Gametap subscription service into Metaboli, a predominantly-European service. Turner injected Gametap in return for substantial equity in the merged company....

Kotaku reports that Canadian developer Silicon Knights has laid off 26 workers. In an official statement, Silicon Knights says it has “temporarily” laid off the employees as they ramp up on other projects. In effect, this looks...