Farmville may be the fastest growing Facebook game ever. It was only released in July and in August, over 33 million people played it. What’s the secret of its success? Sponsored link: Learn inside secrets for Farmville...

Developer Bottlerocket has gone bust, according to GamesIndustry.biz. The company part-developed Splatterhouse for Namco Bandai before an acrimonious split, and was also working on project for defunct publisher Brash. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

CORRECTION: The site that changed hands was games.eu, not gamers.eu. I still know a man who owns gamer.co.uk…   Domain broker Sedo has announced that the domain gamers.eu has changed hands for €67,500. I know a man...

That’s the bold claim from Playfish co-founder Sebastien de Halleux in an interview with the Financial Times this morning. His claim is an estimate “based on average revenues of $1 per month from the 20 per cent...

The content versus distribution argument may be as old as the media industry. But does the Disney acquisition of Marvel for $4 billion return content to the ascendancy. Barely a decade ago, Marvel was bankrupt. But it...

Konami shows that it is forward thinking, but makes a hash of implementation Japanese publisher Konami has recently launched Konami Play, bringing classic games like Track and Field and Frogger as well as modern titles like Metal...

As Twitter tries to find a business model and newspaper columnists show ‘>how completely they don’t understand current technologies, the newspaper editor is becoming irrelevant I’ve been asked several times in the last week why I use...