GAME Group has announced plans to lay off 247 staff in 43 stores across the country. In an official statement to Edge Online, GAME said: “We regularly review our entire store portfolio, including our concessions, to maximise...

Free is not a business model. It’s a marketing technique. Developers Appy Entertainment have just used this technique brilliantly to launch a new IP in less than a week AND drive revenues of their old game to...

This is truly extraordinary. A Taiwanese news channel reporting on Bullygate concocts some CGI footage of Gordon Brown punching an aide and throwing a women from her chair. It’s not in English, so I can’t understand the...

You want to become a publisher, don’t you? Well, your time is running out. This golden era of opportunity for indies is closing rapidly. The new channels like Facebook, iPhone and XBLA are getting crowded, higher quality...

I’m going to stop automatically posting a summary of my weekly tweets. On GAMESbrief and on other blogs, I’ve found them less useful than live Tweets, and I feel they detract from the other posts. Please tell...

This is a presentation given at DICE by Jesse Schell that I was alerted to by Shanti Bergel. It’s a full 30 mins, but the first 20 minutes focus on how few game designers really saw the...

2009 was the year in which Facebook trounced MySpace. Rupert Murdoch’s magical acquisition has been losing its lustre for a while. But, perhaps surprisingly, the main driver of Facebook’s success may have been games. Two reports just...