Sony is working on the PSP2, and most commentators expect it to go head-to-head with the iPhone, which means that it needs to have a built-in phone. But internal politics may kill the deal before it even...

Gaikai claims to offer near-instantaneous gameplay of high-end games on low-end consumer hardware. Is this trend going to spell the end of the Content Delivery Networks? In the early days of the Internet, bandwidth was limited. As...

PocketGamer has crunched some numbers on the AppStore, and have some fascinating results. They took the top 100 games in the US chart, and looked at price point, game brands and more. They show, for example, that...

In a pleasing reversal of the usual “EverQuest destroyed my marriage” story, the BBC has highlighted stories where World of Warcraft has brought families close together. Covering relationships which led “as I’m sure you can imagine cybersex”,...

Free seems to be the topic du jour. Chris Anderson’s Free is riding the best-seller charts. And Dave Perry appears to have come out and said that Gaikai enables publishers to give their AAA content away for...

To lose a million users may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 6 million looks like carelessness. World of Warcraft may be in imminent danger of losing its crown as the largest massively-multiplayer online role-playing game...

InsideSocialGames has released their statistics for the top Facebook games in June 2009. I last looked at the top Facebook games in March, so we’re three months down the line. There have been some interesting changes: