The Garriott/NCsoft saga looks set to run and run. First, Garriott left “amicably” following the commercial failures of Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa. Now, it is alleged that he was dismissed and then manoeuvred into selling stock...

Microsoft continues to make good on its promise to cut 5,000 jobs. Following the 1,400 job losses earlier this year (with many redundancies in Microsoft’s games division), Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft has announced where the hammer...

Earlier in the month, the rumour was that Zynga was making $50 million in revenue. This week, BusinessWeek reports Zynga’s revenues are nearer $100 million. All of these figures are from “people close to the company” so...

Empire Interactive has gone into administration, following abortive attempts by KPMG to find a buyer. The company, owned by Silverstar, is best known for the Flatout series of games. Added to the Job Loss Tracker. UPDATE: GamaSutra...

I just can’t leave the iPhone alone. TechCrunch has some interesting smartphone data points: 27% of smartphone users have never downloaded an app (iPhone owners: 3%) 71% of smartphone users have downloaded fewer than 5 apps (iPhone...

My most recent iPhone post crunched some numbers to show that the iPhone is still only a small part of the mobile gaming market, and that perhaps some of the hype is overblown. Others disagreed. Tim Harrison...

The Pirate Bay trial was always going to rumble on for ever, but many people hoped that it would, at least, start creating a clearer understanding of where the law draws the line on copyright protection versus...