Writing in the Financial Times today, John Gapper talks about way global brands are increasing rising in the East rather than in the West. He cites some particularly startling numbers for Nokia: "revenues last year of €5.9bn...

Game Group announced its preliminary results today and for the first time separated out the gross margin of its pre-owned sales. At the revenue level, roughly one in every three pounds spent on a game is spent...

Last week, Activision announced that it would be shifting the Chinese licence for World of Warcraft from The9 to Netease. This is pretty bad news for The9. To quote their 2007 20-F annual report filed with the SEC: “99%...

Developer of Sacred Ascaron has filed for bankruptcy protection in the German courts. The company said that 94 staff worked on Sacred 2, so I’m estimating the staff size at 100 for now. Pessimistically, I am not...

New analysis shows that the impact of the iPhone on the mobile games business is much smaller than previously thought. I’ve been trying to get hold of demographic data for the iPhone from a number of sources....

The latest NPD data shows disappointing data for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on Nintendo DS. It sold a “pathetic” 89,000 and “bombed”, according to Variety. Game Platform US Installed  Unit  Penetration   base (m)* sales** rate...

Leapfrog, the company famous for games for pre-schoolers, has just launched an iPhone game. This is a massive shift for a company that has previously created its own hardware (such as My My First Computer, aimed at...