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...

Oh dear. The Guardian has gone and got me all steamed up. Normally, that’s the job of the Daily Mail. In a blog post this morning entitled EA unveil … Fifa Farmville?, Guardian blogger Jack Arnott reports...

That's GDC booked. Shame I left it so late – still £1,200 for economy flights and hotel for a week 🙁 # Just updated that job loss tracker so if shows 2010 redundancies separately # Just posted:...

Activision has made a swathe of cuts across its development studios, according to the LA Times: Luxoflux, acquired by Activision in 2002, is being shut down. The studio, which employs about 56 people in Santa Monica, worked...

Google Buzz is Google’s latest consumer misfire. In its attempt to out-Facebook Facebook and out-Twitter Twitter, the company decided that every user of Gmail really wanted to have every frequent email correspondent treated as a social networking...

GamesIndustry.biz reports that GAME Group is consolidating its GameStation business with the potential loss of 80 jobs. The company has been moving to combine the York-based operations of GameStation with the Basingstoke head office of GAME. According...