According to VentureBeat, a number of Foundation 9’s studios will be affected by the redundancies, including: The closure of the Fizz Factor game studio in Austin, Texas The merger of the Amaze and Griptonite studios in Kirkland,...

I missed this while I was at the Develop Conference: Louis Castle, co-founder of EA’s Westwood Studios and a games developer since 1985, has left to join InstantAction as CEO. Instant Action is owned by Barry Diller’s...

Barclaycard’s Waterslide Extreme Game has made it to the top of the App Store. Over 2 million downloads of the free game, 16 million “engagement minutes” and one very happy advertiser. But did they get a good...

I’ve been thinking about smartphone gaming is going to develop, and from a business perspective, I think it’s going to become like the web. And that means analytics will be critical. Any modern web company spends vast...

This isn’t strictly about the business of games, but I’m excited by it. Blizzard, Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures have announced that Sam Raimi is to direct the Warcraft movie. Raimi is the acclaimed director of Spider-Man,...

The casual market is changing fast, and Real Networks’ recent actions suggest that the “freemium” model is rapidly replacing the “try-before-you-buy” model that has bedevilled the casual games sector for a decade. According to Venturebeat, RealNetworks is...

The analysis is, by necessity, rough, but there is a good chance that Zynga is now the largest web gaming business in the US. Zynga is growing, profitable and bigger than Yahoo. Does anyone still seriously claim...