Is the beginning of the end of the closed platform? In all the hype of E3, I missed the announcement that Nintendo will be implementing Facebook Connect into the DSi this summer. Microsoft has announced the same...

GameJacket, which provided advertising revenue for Flash-based games, has closed down. While the company had received funding, it was unable to raise further investment. It seems as if GameJacket was offering $1,000 advances and $0.50 CPMs on...

According to Kotaku, Eidos has made 25 Crystal Dynamics staff redundant. The redundancies are part of a “ continued drive to focus resources at the studio”. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

SGN is a social game company, which to most people means the web. But their latest iPhone game really pushes the graphics bar. FAST (Fleet Air Superiority Training, if you care) is a dogfight-game using a variety...

The French constitutional court has ruled the so-called Hadopi law illegal. The law would have allowed a government commission, rather than a court, to disconnect people who repeatedly downloaded copyrighted content over the Internet. The constitutional court,...

Turbine has just announced that Dungeons and Dragons Online is about to change its business model. It’s moving from being a traditional subscription based MMO where users pay $14.95 per month to being a game that anyone...

As I talk more and more to developers about self-publishing, I am becoming more convinced that tapping into user’s existing social networks is a powerful, cost-effective and viral marketing tool for many games. I’ve tended to focus...