In its third quarter results yesterday, EA announced that it was to lose a further 100 jobs, raising the total to 1,100. The company gave some details on how it intends to manage costs aggressively over the...

In its Q3 conference call, Electronic Arts has announced that it is taking a goodwill impairment charge in its wireless business of $368 million. I take “its wireless business” to mean Jamdat, which EA acquired in 2005...

Though by no means a new target, I was drawn recently to a Develop magazine column by Simon Byron discussing the multitude demerits of Metacritic and other review aggregators. I use Metacritic on a regular basis, so...

Ubisoft has acquired Action Pants, a dev studio in Vancouver. As far as I can tell, Action Pants has never developed a game, yet they have 110 developers in Vancouver. The first title is due to be...

GameFly has acquired ShackNews, according to a post on ShackNews website. GameFly is an online game rental service that allows members to rent console games with no charges or late fees, just as LoveFilm does for movies....

Develop reports that German developer Crytek has acquired the business and assets of Free Radical from the administrator, saving 43 jobs. The fact that Free Radical owned the intellectual property to some of its games must have...

Following its acquisition of Reflexive last year, Amazon has launched its own games download portal. Amazon’s games download service, which is in beta and currently appears to be available only in the US, offers a range of casual,...