Viacom and YouTube have been squaring up for a rights battle for months. At stake was more than the $1 billion of damages that Viacom was seeking: it was the very future of user-generated content. According to...

GamaSutra reports that Real Networks is undergoing the second reorganisation in three months. The company has shut down its internal development studio as well as reducing a number of management layers. Real continues to run the games...

Welcome to the fifth in a series of 12 posts from games developers who have taken the brave step into self-publishing. They have all contributed to How to Publish a Game, and you can get the first...

It’s not exactly news that WHSmith is no longer going to support games. It’s been pulling out since early 2009 and completed its retreat earlier this year. But I was in a branch of WHSmith recently and...

How much is the online games industry worth? It’s a tough question, and is plagued by a difficulty of definitions. For example, Inside Social Games estimates that only half of the $1.6 billion they forecast to be...

Conference season is well and truly upon me, and I’m at a lot of events in June and July. If you want to come and see me at GameHorizon, you have until midnight tonight to get a...

I’m working with Vision + Media, the digital and creative agency for the North West, to deliver a free masterclass on Making money from social games. It’s a full day course on the theory and practice of...