I’ve picked up a rumour that the founders of RealTime Worlds are looking at buying Project MyWorld, after the company went into administration earlier this week. [UPDATE: Johnny Minkley at GamesIndustry.biz beat me to the punch by...

I may have been hasty in adding the entire staff of RealTime Worlds to the Job Loss Tracker. GamaSutra and GamesIndustry.biz report three bits of good news: RealTime Worlds has recruited back 23 of the 60 staff...

GameSpot reports that the largest Australian developer, Krome Studios, is likely to shut down its Adelade studio and put staff at its Brisbourne and Adelaide offices on notice. The company has made a series of redundancies recently...

Scott Purdie, a recent purchaser of How to Publish a Game, pointed me in the direction of this Scottish Parliament select committee. I’m considering whether to give a submission that argues that tax breaks are bad for...

For the past 12 weeks, I have been serialising the Lessons Learned included in How to Publish a Game. A dozen gaming luminaries ranging from one-man indies to heads of big studios were kind enough to answer...

Another week, another Dundee studio in trouble? I’m hearing rumours that Cohort Studios made 38 people redundant in Dundee last week. The company is working on a PlayStation Move title called The Shoot but doesn’t have projects...

It’s not all bad news in Dundee this week. The University of Abertay has announced that it is administering a government fund to help game developers get new IP projects off the ground. As they say: “If...