Cyan Worlds has made nearly all of its staff redundant, with 50 people laid off. Cyan World’s primary client, Gamecock, was recently acquired by SouthPeak Interactive. CEO Tony Fryman is quoted as saying that he was uncertain that...

Brash Entertainment has made 20 employees redundant. The company raised $400 million to make games based on movies, but its first titles – Alvin and the Chipmunks, Jumper, Space Chimps – all flopped. Twenty staff have been...

This blog is frequently a cheerleader for the new model of gaming: browser-based, distributed on the web, living in the cloud, monetized by advertising, subscriptions and micro-payments. But sometimes it’s worth shouting about the old school of...

The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable Could there be a better time to read The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s enjoyable discourse on probability and humanity’s blindness to it? It’s a book that...

THQ has today announced a restructuring plan that will lead to the loss of 250 jobs. The bulk of the redundancies will occur in product development. Added to the GameOverZone.

Wild Tangent is shutting its internal development studio, with the loss of 2o jobs. CEO and Founder Alex St John is also stepping aside. Mike Peronto will become CEO leaving St John as chairman and evangelist for...

A TechCrunch article on Friday talks about Facebook’s need to seek new capital, together with an estimated breakdown of costs. Bandwidth: $500,000 per month Electricity: $1 million per month Storage: $4 million + per month, simply in...